Figurative painting

 
 
Enrico Baj - Home Sweet Home
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Catalogue gathering the series of works realized around the furniture by two artists of different generations but having in common a same refusal of the authority, the paintings of Enrico Baj produced at the beginning of the years 1960 meeting the new sculptures of Martin Kersels.
Peter Stämpfli - Fast and Furious - 1969-1975
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
Frédéric Cousinié - Paysage du paysage - Nicolas Poussin, Claude Le Lorrain, Sébastien Bourdon
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The various dimensions of the landscape—mental, cultural and ideological, real and pictorial—in the emblematic works of Poussin, Le Lorrain, Bourdon and their contemporaries of the 17th century.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
William Scott -
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
Selina Trepp - Dirty Drawings
2022
no text
Nieves
Selina Trepp's "dirty drawings".
Vincent Corpet - DesMesures
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A retrospective of the "retinal" painter's work, since the early 1980s.
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
Till Rabus - Paintings - 2011-2021
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.
Nicola Samorì - Lucìe
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Neglected, abandoned, forgotten women: a series portraits, mostly female, constitutes the fulcrum of this book on Lucìe, the project by Nicola Samorì exhibited at Mart in Rovereto.
Kenny Scharf - MOODZ
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.
Tomoo Gokita - Get Down
2022
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
This richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover Tomoo Gokita's latest body of work, featuring his newest large-scale paintings and a number of never-before-seen works made under lockdown during the pandemic.
Klodin Erb - Orlando
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Lush monograph dedicated to the series "Orlando" inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel: more than 200 portraits in which the Swiss painter explores gender roles and identity as well a her own identity as an artist, and the temporality of art history.
Chang-Ming Peng - Regards sur la peinture chinoise en Occident - Évolution du discours et résonances artistiques (1800-1939)
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The little-known history of a major cultural encounter: a study of the reception of Chinese painting in the West and its artistic resonances, which underwent profound changes between the 19th century and the 1930s.
Andriu Deplazes - Bodies in Scattered Light
2022
no text
Nieves
New series of paintings by the Swiss artist, that examine the role of humankind in nature and within its social fabric on a philosophical-anthropological level.
Keegan McHargue - New Paintings
2022
no text
Nieves
A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.
Charlotte Herzig - I like a bigger garden
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
David Hominal - Still Life / Les feuilles mortes - 2020-2021
2022
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
David Hominal breathes new vitality into the exercise of still life, through a series of paintings of dead leaves.
Claire Tabouret -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
First monograph, with a wide selection of of Claire Tabouret's works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures), two essays and a set of literary quotes chosen by the artist (new expanded edition).
Albert Oehlen - “Big paintings by me with small paintings by others”
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The artist as collector: Albert Oehlen's own artworks nail-to-nail with masterpieces from his personal collection.
Armando Alleyne - A Few of My Favorites
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book on the New York painter's eclectic iconography of jazz musicians, boxers, Black American icons and friends.
Francisco Sierra - Lunar Invasion
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
An overview of the wide-ranging oeuvre of paintings and sculptures by the Chilean-born Swiss-based artist.
Marion Bataillard - Salut
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Naima
A series of recent paintings by French artist Marion Bataillard.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Lettere dall\'Egitto
2021
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Atlas
The Italian edition of Flaubert's account of his trip to Egypt, illustrated by Nathalie du Pasquier.
Maximilian Kirmse - Wasserklops
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Catalogue / artist's book with twenty-one colour illustrations of German artist Maximilian Kirmse's paintings, as well as several drawings.
Maurice Fréchuret - Images de l\'exil
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The images of exile, escape, wandering and exclusion in art history, from classical painting to the most contemporary production.
Peter Klasen - Une œuvre en responsabilité - Œuvre de 1959 > 2021
2021
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Reference monograph: a selection of 320 works, 30 texts and interviews, 150 archive photographs.
Andreas Dobler - St. Elsewhere
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
Mathis Gasser - Heroes and Ghosts
2021
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An ongoing series of figurative oil-on-canvas paintings by Swiss-born London-based artist Mathis Gasser, decontextualizing in the same gesture characters of the popular culture and figures of the history of the art.
Flash Art - Fall 2021 – Ultra Bodies Ultra Species
2021
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Biodiversity in nowadays' visual arts, featuring Pamela Rosenkranz by Nicolas Bourriaud, Agnieszka Kurant, Chitra Ganesh, Pan Daijing, Sex Ecologies: A New Consciousness by Mariana Lemos, Simone Forti, Nour Mobarak, The Cure of the Mind: On Taloi Havini's Answer to the Call by Chus Martínez, Free My Mind, Artpop: You Make My Heart Stop (For Lady Gaga) by William J. Simmons, Carol Bove, Virgil Abloh...
Pierre Seinturier - Fiat Lux
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
First monograph.
Liu Xiaodong - Borders
2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Liu Xiaodong's series of paintings from the Texas-Mexico border.
H. R. Giger - 5 – Poltergeist II - Drawings 1983-1985
2021
bilingual (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Naked - Female
2021
Jannink - Naked (prints)
The female nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Naked - Male
2021
Jannink - Naked (prints)
The male nude by Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (signed serigraph printed at 120 copies).
Gonçalo Pena - Barber Shop
2021
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The new collection of drawings by the Portuguese artist.
José Clemente Orozco - Final Cut
2021
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Devoted to the late work of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), a pioneering artist who founded the Mexican Mural Renaissance with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, that illustrates the artist's career-long interests in human history and politics, surrealism, symbolism, abstraction and the human form, this catalogue also puts into dialogue the echoes of the painter's influence found in contemporary practices in the city of Guadalajara, where he has left an undeniable mark to our day.
Gregory Jacobsen - Plethora
2021
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
Catalogue bringing together four virtuoso artists in excess, overflow and debauchery.
Edi Hila -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
32.00 16.00 €
The first comprehensive monograph of the highly accomplished Albanian artist Edi Hila.
Liu Xiaodong - New England
2021
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Nero
The volume New England brings together a series of portraits by Liu Xiaodong of homonymous subjects. The project represents the artist's search to portray a generation of young Chinese professionals who have moved to London to try and follow their dreams.
Martin Kippenberger - MOMAS Project
2021
French edition
MAMCO - MAMCO Collection
The first study of all the archives and documents relating to the artist's museum created by Martin Kippenberger.
Jacques Halbert - Autoportrait
2021
French edition
various
A number of more or less benevolent considerations on the work of Jacques Halbert.
Ceija Stojka - The Paper is Patient
2021
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
The work of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013) is considered today an invaluable testimony on the deportation and the holocaust of the Romani people during the Second World War. For the very first time, this publication considers equal to her graphic work the notes she wrote on the back of her drawings and paintings.
Jörg Binz - Zeichner, Maler
2021
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book is a moving tribute to Jörg Binz's work, a selection from a great many paintings, especially portraits, and from his secret sketchbooks. It contains startling, bizarre, sublime works interspersed with literary and biographical texts that engage in an ongoing conversation with the paintings.
Anne Van der Linden - Amour vache
2021
French edition
Eretic-art
A retrospective of Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings from 2015 to 2020.
Francesco Clemente - Watchtowers, Keys, Threads, Gates
2021
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph, documenting a large-scale installation that reflects the artist's dreamlike aesthetic, his ongoing exploration of notions of movement, transition and vulnerability, and mythological narratives, offering a rare glimpse into Clemente's forays into the field of sculpture.
Neil McWilliam - L\'esthétique de la réaction - Tradition, foi, identité et l\'art français (1900-1914)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study that explores the complex relationship between nationalism, traditionalism and the critique of modern culture in France in the decades preceding the First World War.
Lucia Piccioni - Art et fascisme - Peindre l\'italianité (1922-1943)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.
Flash Art - Winter 2020/2021
2020
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Across the pages of this issue of Flash Art, there are three words that resonate throughout: coexistence, identity, and protest. While codes to define new standards of identity are being rewritten, populist authorities still distrust the idea of a diversified coexistence of individuals, inciting resistance in physical and digital realms and spreading confusion about who or what to follow or unfollow. This issue invites readers to pay attention to the stereotypes that infect our gaze.
Caro Niederer - Round Midnight
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of still lifes and interior scenes by the Swiss artist.
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