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Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 10 - Relations – 1982-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The tenth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-2004): the publication gathers texts, interviews, and correspondences on ethics, as well as a series of interviews on cross-cutting themes and projects. It features also a chronology, a list of exhibitions, and a bibliography.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 5 - De la peinture et des images – 1980-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fifth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1980-2005): a series of texts of utmost importance, related to the great pictorial and philosophical researches of the 1980s. Alongside these texts, the publication features a collection of interviews and letters to friends, colleagues, art dealers, curators, and art collectors.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 6 - Le Lieu de l\'œuvre – 1982-1993
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The sixth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-1993): featuring some of the most influential texts written by the Swiss artist on art museum.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 7 - Exposer – 1984-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The seventh volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1984-2004): the publication brings together texts that formulate a practice and a criticism of exhibition that goes beyond genres and mediums, using concrete projects in given architectonic situations.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 8 - Conversations avec Jean-Christophe Ammann – Portrait – 1988-1989
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The heighth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1988-1989): a portrait of Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 9 - L\'Art pour la ville – 1986-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 4 - La Ruse de l\'innocence – Chronique d\'une sculpture perceptive 1973-1980
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fourth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1973-1980): a collection of texts on Donald Judd and minimalist sculpture.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 2 - La Découverte de la sémiologie – 1970-1979
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The second volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings: five texts from the 1970s which highlight the influence of semiology (de Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss…). on Zaugg's theoretical thought and practice.
14th Lyon Biennale - Floating Worlds
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
The book of the 14th edition of the international exhibition, curated by Emma Lavigne, with more than 50 artists.
Frac Franche-Comté – Catalogue raisonné 1984-2009 - Traité, essais et méthodes d\'analyses
2017
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
The catalogue raisonné of the The Franche-Comté Frac, including exhibition views, archives, reproductions, documents, index and essays.
Frédéric Alix - Penser l\'art et le monde après 1945 - Isidore Isou, essai d\'archéologie d\'une pensée
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Analyzing the theoretical and aesthetic thought of the founder of Lettrism in the intellectual context of the post-war and up to 1968.
Mouvement
2017
French edition
Mouvement
Kiev, refuge of Donbass artists; the spoken-word scene in London; the Choreographic Coding Labs; Porto's artistic scene; interview with Roger Ballen; electro music artist Actress; writer Charles Robinson; Charlemagne Palestine; autopilot and creation; Europe, mon Amour, by the Birgit Ensemble; portfolio by Richard J.Butler and Harvey Benge.
Sven Lütticken - Cultural Revolution - Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An examination of various forms of aesthetic practice seen through the lens of the neoliberal cultural revolution.
Martin Beck - An Organized System of Instructions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication both documents and extends Martin Beck's cycle of exhibition and residency at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Harvard. This two-year long project focused on the exhibition histories and academic pursuits of the Carpenter Center, built in 1963 by Le Corbusier.
Merlin Carpenter - Midcareer Paintings
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Merlin Carpenter investigates the status of the midcareer artist with a conceptual project involving the exhibition of transit blankets. The publication documents these works and related gallery shows, in addition with texts by Kunsthalle Bern director Valérie Knoll and artist Sam Lewitt.
Mario García Torres - An Arrival Tale
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Mexican conceptual artist Mario García Torres examines the space of arrival as a complicated and disjointed nexus between departure, displacement, and return, in a series of works that reflect on the European migrant crisis.
Nahum Tevet - The Rough Law of Gardens
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The Rough Law of Gardens documents Olaf Holzapfel and Nahum Tevet's eponymous joint exhibition and explores the intergenerational differences between two unique artists. Both artists' work rejects the global logic of growth and traverses the bounds of sculpture and painting: each of their practices involves ideas to do with materiality, learning, and memory.
Sam Watson - CityCat Project - 2006-2016
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication traces the extraordinary collaboration between American artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and senior Aboriginal writer and activist Sam Watson. structured around their highly political work Maiwar Performance, this book also covers their activities both before and throughout their work together.
Edgar Leciejewski - Tones
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Documenting a six-month residence at Fogo Island Arts, Tones highlights the diversity of Leciejewski's practice—with works including collages, photographs, and found-objects sculptures—while bringing to the fore the artist's views on nature.
Francesco Arena - Six Horizons, Six Roads, Ten Landscapes
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
In this new book time and space, which are fundamental aspects of Arena's work, are encapsulated in six horizons, six roads and ten landscapes. Essays by Mario Fortunato and Andrea Viliani, together with statements written by Arena himself on each work here published, examine in depth the practice of one of the most interesting artists in the Italian and International artistic scenes.
Archaic - The Pavilion of Iraq
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale, this book presents eight Iraqi artists of different generations, together with work made by Francis Alÿs when he was embedded with a battalion of Peshmerga near Mosul, and a stunning collection of artefacts from the Iraq Museum of Baghdad.
Homo Melitensis - An Incomplete Inventory in 19 Chapters
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Malta Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale takes readers on a poetic journey through the volatile territories of national and cultural identity of Malta. Gathering contributions by authors, artists, and travelogues, the publication presents ample proof of the rich, complex, and continuing history of the maltese people and its diaspora.
Erkka Nissinen - The Aalto Natives - A Transcendental Manual
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This manual accompanies the installation The Aalto Natives realised for the Finnish Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale by artists Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen. It reveals the full story of Geb and Atum, two terraforming mythical creatures who are floating through space in a vessel shaped not unlike the structure of the Aalto Pavilion.
Michael Wilkinson - In Reverse
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive and focused reader on Wilkinson's output and documents the Glasgow-based artist's practice spanning from 2015 to 2010, including six exhibitions and works produced within that time period, in reversed chronological order.
Ellie Ga - Dialogue
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
Taking as their starting point Susan Sontag's book On Photography (1977), Marcelline Delbecq and Ellie Ga embarked on a long-term words-and-images dialogue addressing films, books and artworks that have marked their individual trajectories, together with historical events related (or not) to the year 1977.
David Horvitz - A Disappearance from Winschoten
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
currently out of stock
This publication documents a work by David Horvitz made on the occasion of a Bas Jan Ader-themed exhibition in Holland in 2012. Annoyed by the curators, Horvitz literally disappeared one month before the show, leaving all his belongings and quitting social media. He returned on the exhibition's closing day, and explained his piece to the curators.
Meris Angioletti -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Taking the form of light and acoustic installations, video projections, slide shows, publications and photographs, the work of Meris Angioletti questions the mechanisms of perception, memory and the psyche. This first monograph devoted to the Italian artist presents an overview of her practice from the past ten years.
Elisabetta Benassi - It Starts With the Firing
2017
English edition
Nero
This artist's book reactivates a press controversy which took place in 1970s London and affected the Tate Galleries' collecting strategies—in particular, the acquisition of Equivalent VIII, a work by minimalist artist Carl Andre made in firebrick.
Piero Golia - The Painter
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nero
The Painter is a robot programmed to paint and to improvise and generate unexpected narratives—in response to visitors entering. It is center piece of a larger project lead by Italian artist Piero Gola at the Kunsthaus Baselland—documented in this publication. Includes a text by Ines Goldbach, and an interview with the artist by Jonathan Monk.
Arthur Fouray - Screen
2017
English edition
Tombolo Presses
Artist book whose title embodies the aesthetical research led by Arthur Fouray on the shift between painting and the cinematographic experience. The publication alternates a series of painting/serigraphy on cushions and textual and typographical experimentation.
Frog
2017
texts in English and French
Frog
10 exhibition reviews, 7 interviews, 10 exhibitions in pictures, some artists special projects, and the chronicles (Raymond Pettibon, Herzog & de Meuron, Wade Guyton, Bruno Serralongue, Richard Phillips, Suzanne Koller, Bruno Gironcoli, Joe Bradley, Bertrand Lavier, John Currin, Marina Faust…).
Kaleidoscope - Summer 2017
2017
English edition
miscellaneous
15.00 10.00 €
Special anniversary edition, featuring 50 monographic stories from the magazine's past issues, in addition to a 30+page commissioned project by conceptual artist Martine Syms.
Neural - Propaganda mon amour
2017
English edition
Neural
Propaganda issue, with Italian sociologist and marketing strategist Andrea Natella as special editor: interviews with Natella, Fatima Al Qadiri, Brandalism, Jonas Staal; Is there something outside the hyperstition? On accelerationism and propaganda; Mapping the “Alt-Right;” Insider Trading Terrorism; Bello Figo, the Italian Pop Star of Over-Identification; reports from WRO 2017 Biennale and Transmediale 2017.
Claudia Comte -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First survey monograph: hovering between painting, sculpture, and installation, Comte's works are based on references to popular culture—including cartoons as well as vernacular handicrafts—nature, heraldic symbols, and art historical movements (Op art, Pop art, Neo-Geo, Concrete art).
Brigitte Bauer - Haus Hof Land
2017
no text
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
25.00 12.50 €
A series of unpublished photographs by Brigitte Bauer: the German artist's images recall with distance and sensibility the uprooting and the transition to adulthood.
The Flood of Rights
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How technologies of image-capture and the channels of communication have in recent years transformed the very terms of human rights.
Armen Avanessian - Overwrite - Ethics of Knowledge – Poetics of Existence
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.50 €
A critical essay on the state of the academic world, and a call for the development of an autonomous knowledge production.
Ernesto Neto - Aru Kuxipa – Sacred Secret - Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.
Cultures of the Curatorial - Hospitality – Hosting Relations in Exhibitions
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Cultures of the Curatorial
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.
 Bureau d\'investigation photographique - Kyrielle
2017
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
This leporello is the result of a collective photographic stream of consciousness based on a project lead by the Bureau d'investigation photographique: In random order, each member of the group opts for an image to which the following member answers by association and according to his own subjectivity.
George Trakas - Du sec à l\'eau - Étude pour Lamelouze
2017
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
Study book made by artist George Trakas in response to a commission issued by inhabitants of the Lamelouze commune in the southern French region of Gard, north of Alès (as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France).
Taus Makhacheva - Tightrope
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published to document a project by the Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva that consists of the video Tightrope and a series of three performances, this publication is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov. It offers insight into the artist's practice and elaborates on the topics she tackles in her works.
Dorothée Elisa Baumann - Pleasure Arousal Dominance
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Monograph documenting a project undertook by the Swiss artist from 2009 to 2016, in which she examines the practice and tools of a center for fundamental research in the field of cognitive neuroscience. With texts by Joerg Bader, Pascal Rousseau, and Anne Immelé.
Oriol Vilanova - Sin distinción
2017
no text
Christophe Daviet-Théry
currently out of stock
Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Madrid invited Oriol Vilanova to intervene in the center's collection of graphic works. Developing its reflections on the modalities of exhibitions, Vilanova collected and exhibited empty window cases from Madrid's museums.
Claude Closky - Iluo
2017
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
The catalogue of Claude Closky's exhibition of artists' books at CDLA, as part of the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou. Kalavryta—the font used in the publication was created specially for the occasion by the French artist.
Paul Panhuysen - Twenty-Three Carillon Sudokus - Number Made Visible – Number Made Audible (vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
This recording is the sonic counterpart to Dutch artist Paul Panhuysen's last visual work Oog & Oor—a colorful design whose structure was built from sudoku puzzles. Panhuysen used the same principle to compose these sudoku-based pieces in collaboration with carillonneur Rosemarie Seuntiëns.
Diego Perrone - War Games
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Stemming from a project dedicated to the city of Genoa and in particular to its relationship with the sea, this photographic artist's book extends the site-specific glass sculpture designed by Perrone inside Villa del Principe's Hall of the Shipwreck.
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