Contemporary art

 
 
Luca Trevisani - Walking loaves
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
An artist book by Luca Trevisani, overwriting in the mode of a palimpsest Piero Camporesi's Bread of Dreams, an Italian cult classic of "food" anthropology.
Takako Saito - Space Music (vinyl LP)
2023
Edition Telemark
Two performances from 2020 and a selection of 1980s recordings by Japanese Fluxus artist Takako Saito.
Mirza Cizmic - Souvenirs Volés
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
currently out of stock
First monograph of the Finnish painter: a series of troubling family scenes whose deviance shines through under a veneer of normality, obscure and disturbing images that appear like reminiscences of a childhood marked by drama and war, never far from the living room.
Monumental Shadows - On museums, memory and the making of history
2023
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Chiara Bertola - Conserving the future
2023
English edition
Bruno
Conserving the Future is the book that bears witness to twenty-five years of curating contemporary art in the same place: the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice.
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian - The Institute for Other Intelligences
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian brings speculative fiction and media studies to bear on an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum on algorithmic equity.
Rita Elhajj - Under water and up in the air
2023
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Clinamen
A symbolic and political science fiction short story written in four languages.
Bistra Lechevalier - Terra Incognita
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Enseigne des Oudin
A retrospective of 50 years of creation of the visual artist Bistra Lechevalier.
Marcel Alocco - Héritage obligé
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
Two unpublished texts that demonstrate the extent of the writing work that Marcel Alocco has been producing for over half a century.
Biomorphisme - Approches sensibles et conceptuelles des formes du vivant
2023
French edition
Naima
A collective and transdisciplinary publication to address the question of the forms of the living in its scientific, philosophical, artistic and aesthetic dimension, engaging a systematic reflection on our relation to the living and to its forms, and on their theoretical and practical significance with regard to the current world.
Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (vinyl LP)
2023
Superior Viaduct
First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".
Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (CD)
2023
Superior Viaduct
First reissue since its initial 1969 release of New York minimalism and drone pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's first full-length album, popularly known as "The Black Record" or "The Black Album".
François Rouan - Odalisques et Pavanes, 2009-2020
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
A brand new body of recent works by the French painter.
 Bosch & Simons - Three Music Machines (vinyl LP)
2023
Staalplaat
22.00 17.00 €
First compilation on LP of the sound works of the two Dutch visual artists, demonstrating that sound produced by the Bosch & Simons music machines can also be listened to as autonomous "music".
Les Carnets du BAL - Les temps de l\'image
2023
French edition
Les Carnets du BAL
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The temporal dimension of the image.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Traces de guerre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
An multidisciplinary approach of the war by its traces.
The Colour Journal - The Blue Issue
2023
English edition
The Colour Journal
The Colour Journal is a lavish publication that explores colour in art and photography. It has been conceived as a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. The Blue Issue contains, over more than 400 pages, about twenty contributions by international art historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, critics, artists and photographers that start from the colour blue.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Zone to Defend in Germany, the opera in Odessa, investigation on the lost trilogy of Abdellatif Kechiche, the end of dancers' careers, the artists in the ready-to-wear, interviews with Mariana Enríquez, Tiphaine Raffier, Bertrand Bonello, Fatima Ouassak, Núria Güell...
Luvah - Rapports de force
2023
French edition
Luvah
The return issue of Luvah journal, after a long absence, on the theme of power relations.
Artforum - March 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Michael Snow, Hrair Sarkissian, Klára Hosnedlová, Unvanquished: Iraq's art under two decades of occupation, Dark Matter: Pierre Soulages and Pierrette Bloch...
Paul Neagu -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals.
Ronan Bouroullec - Fièvre
2023
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (I) - Unbestimmte Linien
2023
no text
Nieves
The subject of this and the following books in the Spekulationen series is Peter Piller's approach to Stone Age art and its presence in his daily life. This volume presents four hundred and nine photographs found in publications on prehistoric art.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II) - Zahlreiche Übergangsformen
2023
no text
Nieves
The second volume of the artist's book series dedicated to Peter Piller's field of research of prehistoric cave painting features Piller's own drawings.
T. J. Demos - Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Dorothy Iannone - First recording 1969 (CD)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
 SIGNA - Det åbne hjerte (The Open Heart) (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
38.00 35.00 €
A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.
Roven
2023
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
In the 17th issue of the critical review on contemporary drawing: interviews with Mira Schor, Katrin Ströbel, Paul Maheke, Éric Watier, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel; the Ramo Collection; unpublished drawings by Ulla von Brandenburg; shared drawing by Laurence Schmidlin; Ghérasim Luca by Alexandre Leger; articles on Ketty la Rocca, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Natalia Jaime-Cortez; artistic contributions by Sylvie Sauvageon, Olivier Garraud, Nicolas Aiello and Sally Bonn...
Marie-Claire Mitout - Les plus belles heures
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.
Denis Briand - Travaux
2023
French edition
Incertain Sens
Both a conference proceedings and an exhibition catalogue, this publication looks back at the career of Denis Briand, artist and university professor, who died on 23 April 2018.
Christoph Keller - Dopostoria
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.
Kaspar Müller -
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective monograph.
Reto Pulfer - Gina - A Zustand novel
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In Reto Pulfer's novel, the artist draws a rich picture of a community of hybrid living beings. Characters and scenes from the novel also appear in the works and exhibitions of the artist. A multi-layered cosmos of links emerges and takes the reader into a parallel universe full of references to our current relationship with nature.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - Kein Witz, No Joke
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Kein Witz, No Joke combines paintings and objects by Sophie Reinhold with the "Typewritings" of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. As different as the artists may be, their works share a manic perseverance, precision, and subversive humor.
Rita Ackermann - Hidden
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
Fahd Burki - Daydreams
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the Pakistani artist's practice over the past 15 years.
Trinh T. Minh-ha - Traveling in the Dark
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.
Adrien Vescovi - Jours de lenteur
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
A dive into the world and studio of French artist Adrien Vescovi, whose textile compositions are thought and composed like paintings, both monumental and vulnerable, subject to the natural elements and impregnated with the places where they are exposed.
François Mangeol - À la recherche du bonheur
2023
no text
Christophe Daviet-Théry
François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
2023
English edition
Nero
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
Paul Thek - Italian Hours
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A collection of works reflecting the influence of Italy on Paul Thek's artistic trajectory, with several contributions highlighting his Italian period.
Rä di Martino - Carmelo Bene - Là dove muore, canta
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
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