Contemporary art

Rachel Churner on the art of Barbara Hammer, James Quandt on the films of Lucrecia Martel, Sarah K. Rich & Amy Sillman on Laura Owens, Kazuyo Sejima talks with Julian Rose on museum architecture, Melissa Anderson on Sophie Fiennes's Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Tobi Haslett on Mark E. Smith, plus reviews from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Mumbai, Istanbul, Chicago, and more.

Saâdane Afif, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon & C. Spencer Yeh, Pan Daijing, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Forensic Architecture & Metahaven, T. J. Demos, Nicolas Moufarrege by Élisabeth Lebovici, Mounira Al Solh, and Dean Daderko, Lisa Ponti by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Franco Toselli, Dieter Roelstraete, Vivan Sundaram, Lin May Saeed, Post-Performance Future by Marie de Brugerolle…

Place.Labour.Capital. takes a reflective look at the first years of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and serves as a means to review the parameters of its own position in the present globalised art world and knowledge-production economies.

Catalogue of the second edition of Lulennial, a biennial organized in the small space of gallery Lulu, in Mexico City. The twenty-two artists invited by curators Chris Sharp and Andrew Berardini met around one subject matter: fruit.

The publication is the first comprehensive study of Baruchello's relationship with the moving image from the sixties on.

This publication features a series of lithographs which captured impressions of wild animals. This technique was developed by artist Michael Günzburger to explore with directness and immediacy the physical energy of bestiality. The series is accompanied by a text by writer Lukas Bärfuss which takes the reader on an expedition up through northern woods all the way to the frozen wilderness of an island in the North Sea.

Exploring the infra-spaces between images, sound, and voice in the work of artist Marcelline Delbecq, in conversation with art historian Pascale Cassagnau (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

This interview with Romain Kronenberg by curator Anne-Laure Chamboissier traces the filmmaker's progression, from his first projects to the most recent, including some currently in development. It reveals the complexity of a body of work where the relationship between image and sound is constantly reinvented with each new creation. (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

Exploring the infra-spaces between images, sound, and voice in the work of artist Marcelline Delbecq, in conversation with art historian Pascale Cassagnau (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

This interview with Romain Kronenberg by curator Anne-Laure Chamboissier traces the filmmaker's progression, from his first projects to the most recent, including some currently in development. It reveals the complexity of a body of work where the relationship between image and sound is constantly reinvented with each new creation. (in the framework of the “Beyond Sound” interview series, dedicated to sound arts).

Federico Lodoli and Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli went twice in Liberia to carry out a study on the war. This publication gathers their travel memoirs, interviews with Liberian warlords and a photographic reportage.

This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.

Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition project which interprets contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism, populism and identity, using the symbolism in the Flemish painting of 1570 by Simon de Myle entitled Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.

The book “Fragments”, designed by Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet as an installation, coupled with a performance, is inspired by a family legend about Tabet's great-grand-father. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

This publication brings together the 50 unique life-cast portraits of the artist's work, Imagines; inspired by ancient Roman life-casts of the same name. Each life-cast portrait is presented as a postcard; the reverse of which, written in Edmier's own hand, provides interesting details about the individual casts. The set of postcards is presented in a hard-back “stone” box-envelop, with white debossed text.

The publication brings together three distinct bodies of Landers' recent pictural work in beautifully reproduced images: yellow legal pad paintings, text drawings, and the Aspen tree paintings.

This catalogue revolves around a project by Damir Očko inspired by the works of Brecht and Orwell. The Croatian artist produced a video collage reflecting on the impoverishment of language in the public space.

Under the title of Merry Xenotism!, Diaphanes #4 directs its attention to everything foreign and different, to the other in the same and the same in the other. With contributions from art, literature, and discourse by Leonard Suryajaya, Slavs & Tartars, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Yves Netzhammer, Jean-Luc Nancy, Tianzhuo Chen, Elena Dorfman, Maria Gabriela Llansol, A.K. Kaiza, Miguel Tamen, Lina Atfah, Michele Pedrazzi, Angelika Meier, Joseph Morder, Jordan Lee Schnee, Jochen Thermann, and many others.

The cultural public sphere at the digital age.

16th issue confronts the question of the narrative and the “anecdote”, with an ensemble of textual and visual contributions by artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.

This catalogue / artist's book extends a three-chapter exhibition reflecting on the concept of Home. The publication includes reproductions, exhibition views, a text by Marie-Gabrielle Duc, and an interview with the artist by Emmanuele Quinz.

Making Sense reports on ten years of Research in Art and Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features a synopsis of research projects and a selection of projects' descriptions, accompanied by conversations on design and artistic research between ECAL professors and leading scholars in these fields.

A hundred black and white portraits of students from ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne, made between 2013 and 2016 by photographer and teacher Anoush Abrar.

A collective reflection on the historical stakes of French avant-garde movement Lettrism.

This catalogue presents an unpublished series of work by Tomoko Yoneda: the Japanese photographer has followed in the footsteps of Albert Camus, through Algeria and France, carrying on her reflection on the memory of places by way of her sensitive and poetic photographs. It is a subtle evocation of the youth of the author of “The Stranger.”

Helen Molesworth on the work of Simone Leigh, a special project by Jesse Darling, Yinka Shonibare MBE on his forthcoming project with the Public Art Fund in New York, Saul Anton on Hito Steyerl's Duty Free Art, and Claire Bishop on Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Plus Maria Stavrinaki on Art and Prehistory, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on the art of Ahmed Morsi, Melissa Anderson on Ken Russell's Women in Love, and more.

Visual artist Jimmy Beauquesne; novelist Fanny Taillandier; researcher Marielle Macé; interviews with Meg Stuart, Nathalie Quintane, Eugène Green; neomelodico napoletano; portraits: Bertrand Mandico, Laure Prouvost, Arto Lindsay; OS'O and Traverse collectives new creation Pavillon noir; shopping malls and contemporary art; design and choreography.

A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.

Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.

Conversations is a monographic collection of interviews focusing on an artist's drawing practice. For this first book, Sharka Hyland answers the questions of Marcelline Delbecq, two artists whose practices converge in their interest in writing, reading, images, and language. A discussion that fosters a unique look at Sharka Hyland's work.

This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.

Pascal Dombis's monograph spans 25 years of digital creations exploring the excess, repetition and unpredictability of technological processes. The publication includes a large iconography (200 images), an interview with the artist, two specially-commissioned essays and a collection of articles from 2002-2015 reviewing Dombis's constant evolution.

Interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat; portfolio by Ville Kumpulainen; poetry and fiction; an essay by Terrance Hayes; journal by Yun-Fei Ji; exhibitions and books' reviews…

The Dynamics of archiving: interviews with Ernesto Oroza, Simone Osthoff, Red conceptualismos del Sur, Manu Luksch, Daniel G. Andujar; Anna Ramos presents the Memorabilia podcast series; the British Library's 140 years of recorded sound vs. Centuries of Sounds; Rhizome's Net Art Anthology; reports on ISEA 2017 – “Biocreation and Peace”, Lisbon's xCoAx 2017…

Box set including a book and a film on DVD dedicated to the Theatergarden Bestiarium exhibition.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

This issue investigates the sinuous folds of the body. Featuring: special section on George Henry Longly; Mathieu Copeland on anti-bodies within the body of art institutions; interview with Barbara Hammer, Lou Dallas, Manuel Solano; Eleanor Antin on Carving; Ellen Blumenstein & Kate Cooper; Ben Vickers in conversation with Kenric McDowell on human and machine; visual essay by Marianna Simnett; Donna Huanca in conversation with Venus Lau; ektor garcia; 25 questions with Eric N. Mack… and including Clubbing fanzine's first issue!

Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.

Conceived on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Le Bal, Paris, this publication is a poetic, abstract, fragile attempt to translate something of our times: being in a state of suspension. It subverts the idea of a traditional catalogue to transcribe this intangible and indefinable state through a continuous stream of black-and-white images supported by excerpts from Jacques-Henri Michot's Un ABC de la barbarie.

Unveiling the magazine's new graphic identity, this issue of Flash Art features: 20-page section on Adrian Piper; Maurizio Cattelan and Marta Papini talk to art-world boundary explorer Asad Raza; Tenzing Barshee on Margaret Honda; Stephanie Seidel talks to Juan Antonio Olivares about his 3-D animation Moléculas; Thomas Duncan on photography and corporeality in the work of Josh Tonsfeldt; David Andrew Tasman on Anna Uddenberg's heterotopic forms; Eli Diner on the captivating and inscrutable sculptures of Michael E. Smith; reviews…

The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.

A synthesis of the multiple dimensions of the protean oeuvre of a legendary artist, which we measure today to what extent they find an echo in contemporary environmental, cinematographic, aesthetic and social issues.

Known for his extravagant neo-surrealist paintings, the Dutchman emigrated to New York Peter Schuyff is also a guitarist and singer. Illustrated with drawings by Eliane Gerrits, this book brings together the lyrics of the folk and psychedelic songs of the band The Woodwards, which he forms with the English singer Stevie Guy.

The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.

A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.