This publication results from Braegger's “The Grateful Dead” paintings series, ink jet prints of colorful psychedelic marching bears on canvas. These bears were used as a logo by San Francisco Sixties rock band The Grateful Dead.
Gong!'s second issue is devoted to stylist and occasional photographer Rosa Codina. Rosa decided to devote the issue to her daughter and everything around her, in a project she entitled Autour de Alia and which she decided to base on monographic content rather than time or technique.
The reprint of two out-of-print artist's books self-published in the 80's by the Japanese artists collective The Play, with a previously unreleased documentation.
Both an artist's book and Kader Attia's reference monograph, “RepaiR” consists of interviews and texts around Attia's oeuvre, documented through about 1000 b/w reproductions, and the notion of repair, by 13 academics and researchers working in various disciplines. The book also reveals the artist's research and creation process, with a selection of archive texts and images.
An extreme experience seeking to hear the body's internal sounds. It uses both the medium of drawing and of writing to account for the metamorphoses produced by this sensorial experiment.
A mapping of ephemeral architecture built during the siege of the Maiden Place in Kiev: a project by Bureau A, Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide (CH) with Burø, Sergey Ferley (UA), bewteen architecture, design, graphic design and political pamphlet.
The logbook and review of the first two years of the journey of the mobile contemporary art museum for children: 32 000 kilometers in 5 countries to meet 40 000 children, with 250 educational and cultural partner structures...
An introduction to robotic art in twenty installations and performances. The catalogue includes a brief history of the artist and the robot's relationship by Austrian curator Gottfried Hattinger.
Schlecker by Rafa Castells displays a selection of pictures documenting the artist's day-to-day life. This first monograph also stands as an aesthetical essay on the symbolic effects of light and colour—offering a luminous discourse on photography and life.
Each issue of Gong! gives carte blanche to an artist to appropriate the space of the magazine. For its first publication, Gong! invited illustrator and fanzine publisher Mirena Ossorno.
First translation into French of the short story by Edward Page Mitchell—a major figure in the early development of the science fiction genre—, written and published unattributed in the NY Sun in 1879.
A new reading of the work of a major American and international artist, well known for her depictions of the female body, of society's attitude to women and particularly for her pioneering work as a performance and video artist in the cause of feminism, in the context of artists' reactions to major world issues and a return of the historical genre in art today, underlining her unflagging commitment to the recording of history as it happens.
A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.
Following the social unrest and immolation acts in Southern Algeria in 2011, writer and journalist Mustapha Benfodil wrote this fictional monologue of a village's mortuary employee to reflect on the wounds of the Algerian society.
First anthology of Rosemary Trockel's collages, which are a key for a difracted and non-academic view on the whole work of this German artist known internationaly (German / English edition).
The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia, accompanied by a reference book on the Belgian typographer which name has been associated with the Prize.
A previously unpublished text by Gilles Deleuze on Francis
Bacon, with a set of contemporary readings of his Deleuze's writings on art,
by philosophers and theoreticians of the various disciplines addressed
(literature, cinema, music, art history...).
This book brings together authors, filmmakers, curators, critics, theorists, art historians, collaborators, and Stephen Dwoskin's film lovers, invited to parse the American filmmaker's work.
Mick Rock,
Etienne Russo,
Syd Mead,
Claude Parent,
Mas Yendo,
Ricardo Bofill, Ferran Adrià,
Aitor Ortiz,
Geert Goiris, Etienne-Louis Boullée, Carlo Scarpa...
Artist's book gathering a selection of outstanding photographic strips that capture the subtle beauty of ephemera. The use of black and white strengthens the contemplative essence of the photographs, in between naturalism and abstraction.
The journey of the MuMo, a mobile contemporary art museum in the form of a container traveling by boat and truck to meet the children on the roads of France and Africa.