Contemporary art

Space as a privileged place to think and question our place in the world.

This issue is about the return of the family in neoliberalism, the influence of the political right on the arts, about #metoo, indie and Édouard Glissant, about young rappers and life in the commune. With Otto Muehl, Sandra Mujinga, Christoph Schlingensief, Anselm Franke, Aria Dean, Yewande Omotoso, Alison Gingeras, Seth Meyers, Liam Gillick, Dean Kissick, Alice Creischer, and many more.

This publication revives the fascinating adventure of Pierre Keller's invention and dissemination of the “Kilo-Art,” the “Swiss standard for art measurement.” For the two years 1972 and 1973, the young artist—now a key figure of the contemporary artistic and pedagogical scene in Switzerland—dedicated his life to what he called “conceptual art with realization.”

Catalogue.

Departing from his eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, this catalogue examines new works by acclaimed video and visual artist Marcel Odenbach. The series gathered in the publication reflect on the persistence of the victim-perpetrator structure within post-war society, in Germany or Africa.

Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary art theory following the financial crisis of 2007/8.

This 4th issue of the anthropology journal explores the tension between indeterminacy and narrative in archaeology and art.

A conversation with multidisciplinary artist Virginie Yassef about her work The Veldt, inspired by a play by writer Ray Bradbury. An interview contucted by Julie Pellerin, Mathieu Copeland, and Philippe Quesne.

Cura. yearlong investigation into the body continues. This issue is devoted to different artistic experiences and practices—crossing generations, time, space, and media—revolving around the boundaries, powers, forms and interpretations of the body that exist within the present world (Amalia Ulman; Hannah Levy; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Prem Sahib; Celia Hempton; three essays on the dancing body, the loving body, and the collective body…).

Kris Lemsalu by Andrew Berardini; Mitch Speed on the anti-power of the found object; an essay on photography and Instagram by Nick Currie; Sabrina Tarasoff on Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center; Ana Teixeira Pinto on futurisms; the Women's History Museum; Ericka Beckman, Dara Birnbaum, Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with Emily Watlington; Bouchra Khalili; Kate Newby…

A trilogy on the artistic development in Asia from 1998 to 2018.

Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.

This publication stems from the 2018 edition of ARCO – Madrid international contemporary art fair. Taking as a point of departure the exploration of the concept of “future,” Chus Martínez, Elise Lammer, and Rosa Lleó wrote essays discussing different topics (art fairs, human evolution, and experimental education). These texts are illustrated by works by nineteen artists featured at the Madrid fair.

The articles and interviews included in this issue of Flash Art address the human body, introducing artistic practices that push the body's physical boundaries and challenge its codified representations. With Luchita Hurtado; special feature on artist, educator, curator, and cultural theorist Ian White; Lena Henke; Martti Kalliala on the transformational experience of Burning Man; Eric N. Mack; Stefano Sollima; Bruce Nauman by Isabelle Graw (on Flash Art March-April 1993); exhibitions reviews.

Reference monograph.

This catalogue examines the strategies deployed by Iraqi contemporary artists to reinvent their heritage, after decades of wars. Focusing on archives, historical collections, and databases, these artists celebrate a visual culture that resists erasure. The publication includes a critical apparatus and detailed presentations of the artists.

Daphné Le Sergent's “Geopolitics of Oblivion” exhibition focuses on the technical language. The catalogue takes the form of a photography-drawing manual built on the notion of separation.

This monograph presents a collection of texts and critical essays taking the form of an alphabet primer. Twelve art critics, curators or writers chose a keyword as starting point to write a commentary on Boris Achour's practice. The publication also includes an iconographic documentation offering an overview of the artist's works.

An artistic, political and collective project by Nicolas Floc'h, based on a principle of participation and co-realization, which points, at different levels, to the multiple relationships between social groups and public institutions that structure and frame them, while also questioning the symbolic or economic value of an artwork.

A visual overview of 40 years of concerts, exhibitions and events at l'Oreille est Hardie / le Confort Moderne in Poitiers: 512 pages of photographs, flyers, and clippings, superimposed in colorful layers to compose a hallucinatory anthology of images.

This publication documents an audacious project by Julien Berthier, in the context of a workshop at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers. The artist found a landlord willing to flip one facade of her house, in order to create a painting. The book features a text by writer and performance artist Daniel Foucard.

This book revisits the oeuvre of Alain Séchas as a whole, with a particular focus on the works produced over the past decade—most notably his paintings and drawings.

J.G. Ballard, Nicolas Ballet, Alexandra Bircken, Jimmy Desana, James Horton, Ana Jotta, Martin Laborde, Jonathan Martin, Sibylle De Laurens, Pascaline Morincôme, Clément Roussier, Catherine Roudé, Marion Scemama, William J. Simmons, Sabrina Tarasoff, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Charles Veyron, David Wojnarowicz.

An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.

Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a heterogeneous collection of authors offering a variety of interpretations on the work of artist and poet Franck Leibovici.

First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.

Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring Sam Falls, Rachel Harrison, Wyatt Kahn, Ron Nagle, Gay Outlaw, Tobias Pils, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, and Oscar Tuazon.

The first volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (new edition).

The second volume of the retrospective catalogue of Le Consortium contemporary art center (1998-2017).

Performer Anne Lise Le Gac; philosopher Daniel Adjerad; interviews with Rodrigo García and Oneohtrix Point Never; taxidermy and contemporary art; Cosey Fanni Tutti; the portrait of performer Pamina de Coulon; No Paraderan by choreographer Marco Berrettini; New York East Village; South India's film industry…

Pascal Pinaud's drawings and paper works.

The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.

The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.

This catalogue documents three video works by the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, in which she explores the impact of digital technology on human condition.

60 original drawings by Lou Doillon in a luxurious notebook.

The catalogue published on the occasion of Navas' first institutional exhibition continues her research on art and design, which deals with phenomena such as memory, translation, interpretation and authorship and documents a wide exchange of images and ideas. A collection of photographs the artist received from friends and acquaintances provides an insight into how her work is influenced and understood by others under the motto “I had to think of you”.

This publication presents a series of some forty autobiographical drawings in pencil, ink and watercolor. The artist chose to recount his life as a children's story, flicking through fleeting memories, dramatic events, and brief anecdotes.

Publication documenting the eponymous permanent installation by Kiefer at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. First created in 2004, the work features seven “tower sculptures,” now combined with five large-format paintings, made between 2009 and 2013. The book gathers essays, a conversation with the artist, an exhaustive photographic documentation, description of the installation, and a bio-bibliography.

Final chapter of a publication series by Ugo Rondinone, this catalogue presents the artist's exhibition on the occasion of the reopening of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. The volume also takes a look at the Museum's acquisition of Rondinone's Miami Mountain, which follows his iconic mountain series, recognizable for their brightly colored, fluorescent contrasting palates.

A collection of texts on photography and photographers by Italian gallerist Massimo Minini. The publication also explores relationship between photography and sculpture through sections dedicated to Adolfo Wildt and Mimmo Paladino.

Young architects, researchers, artists, designers, and students took part in a residency program for five years at the French ski resort Les Arcs. They prospected and conducted projects in order to renew this unique site, and to perpetuate its modernist heritage. This publication documents their collective adventure.

This publication gathers a series of photographs made during the artist's formative years. Between 2004 and 2008, Nadim Asfar photographed anonymous passersby from the balcony of his studio in Beirut. As faceless figures cast shadows under the hard city light, heading in undisclosed directions, their narratives are only announced, never told.

The first monograph of the artist, looking back at 20 years of artistic practice through her variable projects: paintings and drawings, installations, films and videos. The publication gathers texts by Patricia Falguières, Rabih Mroué, and Ghassan Salhab, as well as interviews with Lamia Joreige by Etel Adnan, Kader Attia, Lav Diaz, and Charbel Habre.

Throughout the twentieth century, critical art history often chose to ally itself with a restrictive brand of formalism. Therefore, critical analyses regularly reduced the artwork to its material and its social use. Based on this observation, historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Deleuze's readings of philosophers as a starting point to renew the narrative of art history since the 1960s.

Questioning the meaning of one's existence with Martin Heidegger (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

A French history of digital animation.

Monograph celebrating the practice of Swedish multidisciplinary artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. The publication is a true collaboration between the artist, her publishers, and graphic designer Jonas Williamsson. It includes a series of essays by artists, critics, and curators.

Summer previews (Charles White at the Art Institute of Chicago; Bodys Isek Kingelez at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Diamond Stingily at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Anna Boghiguian at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Xu Bing at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing…), Harry Cooper on Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, Chloe Wyma introduces Ebecho Muslimova, Superpower: Hannah Black on Black Panther, Tectonic Arts: Frank Gehry talks with Julian Rose, and more.

Exploring the potentialities of virtual reality: with Björk VR experiments; sound and VR; Michel Chion; interviews with Molleindustria, Viktor Timofeev, David Guez, Boštjan Čadež, Naotaka Fujii + Grinder-Man + Evala, WonJik Yang; reports on Temblor – 13 Bienal de Arte Mediales, and Gamerz 13 – Techno-esoteric visions…