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Shirana Shahbazi - First Things First
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A non-hierarchical selection of photographic works created over the past ten years by the Iranian artist (catalogue).
Reto Pulfer - Zustandskatalog - Catalog of States and Conditions
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Comprehensive monograph in the style of a catalogue raisonné, giving unique insight into the multidisciplinary practice of Reto Pulfer for the past fifteen years (with texts by Anselm Franke and Benoît Maire).
Roee Rosen - Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.
Cultures of the Curatorial - Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Cultures of the Curatorial
sold out
This publication analyzes, from the perspective of hospitality, the curatorial within the current sociopolitical context through key topics concerning immigration, conditions along borders, and accommodations for refugees.
Sounds from the Archipelago - An Introduction to the Lush Indonesian Music Tradition – Vol. 1 (vinyl LP)
2017
various
sold out
This first volume gathers traditional music from different areas of the Indonesian archipelago, featuring music from Sulawesi, The Moluccas Islands (Spice Islands) and Central Java.
Sounds from the Archipelago - An Introduction to the Lush Indonesian Music Tradition – Vol. 2 (vinyl LP)
2017
various
sold out
This second volume dedicated to traditional music from the Indonesian archipelago covers music from the vast island of Sumatra (West Indonesia), The Moluccas Islands and the island of Bali.
Philippe Parreno - H {n)y p n(y} osis / Hypothesis
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Produced in conjunction with two exhibitions, this monograph offers a rich critical overview of Parreno's work, with essays by Cyril Béghin, Molly Nesbit, Brian O'Doherty and Adam Thirlwell, and two interviews with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Andrea Lissoni. An invaluable research tool for studying one of the most influential and charismatic figures on the contemporary art scene.
Ugo Rondinone - Golden Days & Silver Nights
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The second of a four-chapter publication series by Rondinone, Golden Days & Silver Nights documents a cycle of works recently made by the artist in Rome: the installation of white olive trees's mouldings among the ruins of the Trajan Forum, and the exhibition “Vocabulary of Solitude” at the MACRO Museum, where sculptures of forty-five clowns were accompanied by a multitude of rainbow drawings.
Ugo Rondinone - Vocabulary of Solitude
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first of a four-chapter publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue documents the installation Vocabulary of Solitude—an arrangement of his works inspired by the color spectrum. The centerpiece comprises forty-five life-size sculptures of passive and contemplative clowns, who together describe the anguish of human solitude.
 Bellows - Strand (vinyl LP)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Italian electroacoustic composers Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti reconvene their unique Bellows collaborative project for a new album. Captured live over the course of a four days improvised session, the album floats between ghostly melodies, musique concrète, and analog electronics.
Terry Fox - 552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
sold out
This double LP includes four unreleased selections from Fox's eponymous sound performance based on the great pavement labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral—which the artist saw as a metaphor for his own life in between health and sickness.
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
Nigel Peake - Strip
2017
no text
Nieves
sold out
A strip of buildings illustrated with watercolor and pencil, in line with the Irish illustrator's interests in architecture and the city (leporello).
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.
Ethiopian urban and tribal music - Mindanoo Mistiru / Gold from Wax (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Anthology of urban and tribal music from the late Ethiopian Empire, first issued in 1971. Presented as two volumes—vol. 1, Mindanoo Mistiru (“What is the Unknown?”), and vol. 2, Gold from Wax (referring to the two layers of meaning in Amharic poetry)—these recordings covers over 70 languages and 200 dialects. Recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Ralph Harrisson.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
Mohamed Bourouissa -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
sold out
Since 2003, Bourouissa has been developing a multidisciplinary practice rooted in social reality, working primarily with representations of a contemporary urban environment. This catalogue accompanies the Franco-Algerian artist's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, which gathers his most significant works to date—including Horse Day, his first project in the USA.
Kishio Suga - Situations
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Catalogue of the first European retrospective dedicated to a major figure in Japanese contemporary art. Situations focuses on Suga's entire career, among the prime movers of 1960s group Mono-ha, and documenting over twenty of his installations, dating from 1969 to the present.
Piotr Uklański - Real Nazis
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.
Ulises Carrión - (the drum)
2017
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.
Catherine Contour - Une plongée avec Catherine Contour - Créer avec l\'outil hypnotique
2017
French edition
Naïca
sold out
Choreographer Catherine Contour is a pioneer in the use of hypnosis within the creation process. This monograph features photographic documentation, short essays by specialists, an a small illustrated manual for artists to experiment with the hypnotic tool.
Andrea Pertoldeo - Blue Dust
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
This publication presents a photographic project by Andrea Pertoldeo which consists of a series of full-length portraits of immigrants working on industrial sites in the desert of Bahrain. Images of landscape and labour coincide in order to reveal aspects of the construction of contemporary society. Featuring four texts by artists and scholars.
Ismaïl Bahri - Instruments
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
Instruments is the catalogue accompanying Ismaïl Bahri's exhibition of the same title at the Jeu de Paume. It is also his first monograph. Bahri's oeuvre, which dates back to the 2000s, is like a precise and sensitive record of events and experiments; its often mechanical kinetics are particularly evocative of the film process. His experiments are based on the tiny nuances and minute developments that occur when simple things are brought into contact with each other. They demand an acuteness of gaze that leads one to question the limits of perception and the visible.
Lodovico Pignatti Morano - Le Silver - An Italian Oral History of the Nike Air Max 97
2017
English edition
various
sold out
Originally a report commissioned by Nike, the book tells the story of the Air Max 97 phenomenon in Italy in the late 90s and early 00s, through the voices of those who wore the shoe with the greatest obsessiveness. In doing so, it becomes a snapshot of the attitude of late '90s Italian urban culture.
I Can\'t Work Like This – A Reader on Recent Boycotts and Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination of recent cases of boycotts by artists, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews.
On Things as Ideas
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man's rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time.
Warhol Wool Guyton
2017
English edition
various
sold out
This catalogue traces the trajectory of Warhol's influence on the work of Wool and Guyton. The innovative print processes deployed by the artists operate as conceptual fibers unifying the diversity of paintings oscillating between abstraction and representation. With an essay by Glenn O'Brien.
Jean-Marc Huitorel - Une forme olympique - Sur l\'art, le sport, le lieu
2017
bilingual edition (texts in French and in English)
various
sold out
Constructed around three themes—an essay, a series of interviews, and an exhibition catalogue—this publication studies the links between contemporary art and sport with a specific focus on the notion of game.
Félicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Atkinson's most ambitious musical work to date, Hand In Hand combines 80's sci-fi anxious aethetics with today's transparency of digital sounds. Placing the voice at the epicenter of the recording, the French artist and musician convokes fiction, composition and abstraction in the manner of Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley, or Delia Derbyshire.
Chiara Camoni - Certain things
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
First publication to present the work of Italian sculptor Chiara Camoni from the outset until today. It gathers artworks, the artists' writings, and texts commissioned for the occasion.
Nathalie du Pasquier - From Some Paintings - 2000-2010
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
Halfway between the catalogue and the artist's book, From Some Paintings gathers a selection of still life paintings made between 2000 and 2010. Translated into black and white images, these works represents small everyday objects, alternating full size reproductions and details.
Mamma Andersson - Skulptur
2017
no text
Nieves
sold out
Swedish artist Mamma Andersson is known for her melancholic paintings of private interiors, elegantly executed with her distinctive interplay of textures, and pictorial techniques. This new body of work stages a series of sculptures, whether as part of indoor space, or detailed in closeups.
Bülent Arel - Electronic Music - 1960-1973 (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Providing a selection of tracks produced during Arel's American years, this compilation puts to the fore a work which occupies a special place in the history of electronic music because of its groundbreaking role and everlasting freshness.
Luc Ferrari - Tinguely 1967 (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Unreleased recordings composed for the cinema and the television.
Hugo Race - Long Distance Operators (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
Born from the collaboration between the Australian musician Hugo Race and the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, the music of LDO is an intensely atmospheric dreamweave of violins, electronics and Hugo's darkly evocative voice. The duo explores metaphysical lyrics, experimental sounds and retro-baroque orchestrations in a romantic, song-based context.
 Paradis Noir - Cream (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2017
Optical Sound
sold out
French duo Paradis Noir (Jefferson Lembeye & Olivier Le Borgne) is influenced by both the writings of Malcolm Lowry and the music of PIL, Joy Division and the Velvet Underground, as well as electro-industrial music. Thomas de Pourquery, Black Sifichi and Élise Caron collaborated on this unique album produced by Norscq. The picture disc reproduces two paintings by Tom de Pékin.
Ce que l\'édition fait à l\'art - Extraits d\'une collection
2017
French edition
Tombolo Presses
sold out
This exhibition catalogue offers a thorough examination of the artist's book as both an artistic and editorial medium. Focusing on the collection by Jean-Paul Guy, the publication presents 68 artists' books by the likes of Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, Michael Snow, and Robert Barry.
Steve Roden - A thousand breathing forms (6 CD box set)
2017
Sonoris
sold out
A selection of unreleased or hard-to-locate works from 2003 to 2008, a very prolific and creative period for the Californian artist.
Kim West - Life on Sirius - The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Exploring the relationship between the Situationist International and the museum.
Spaces of Commoning
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
sold out
This publication is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects, and social theorists, who, in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession, explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study.
Robert Filliou - The Secret of Permanent Creation
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This catalogue revolves around the transcript of a long length conversation between the French artist and art critic Irmeline Lebeer, structured as an illustrated abécédaire.
Paolo Icaro - faredisfarerifarevedere
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A reference monograph resulting of a 10-year research on Italian sculptor and conceptual artist Paolo Icaro.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Félicia Atkinson - Audio Book
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
This artist's book gathers an uncompromising collection of 200 found images and original work from Felicia Atkinson, composing a rasterized visual score.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A unique firsthand account of the French underground musical scene since 1968 (with Christian Vander, Richard Pinhas, Daunik Lazro, Albert Marcoeur, Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, Jean-Louis Costes...).
Nathalie du Pasquier - Big Objects Not Always Silent (2 vol.)
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This two-volume publication consists of an artist's book by Nathalie Du Pasquier with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of her paintings and a publication with photographic portraits of her works from the past decades by Delfino Sisto Legnani.
Martin Herbert - Tell Them I Said No
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).
Jean-Michel Othoniel - Le Trésor de la cathédrale d\'Angoulême (livre / DVD)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
sold out
A book-DVD documenting a commissioned work for which Jean-Michel Othoniel redesigned spaces housing the sacred treasures of the Angoulême Cathedral.
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