Contemporary art

Inspired by Beirut's urbanism and cultural history, Rechmaoui's sculptures and installations reflect themes of urbanization and contemporary social and behavioral demographics. Including documentation, essays, and interviews, this illustrated monograph takes a look back at twenty years of work by one of the most important post­war contemporary artists from Lebanon and the region.

This publication covers the discursive outcome of the project “Black Hyperbox”—a frame for performance and text based on the alienation between practice and conceptualization.

Catalogue documenting the Canadian artist's most important works to date and a specially commissionned installation. Her steel structures and ceramic works represent menacing hybrid-species engaged in a role play of predator and prey. Includes an essay by Golberg, texts by critics and curators, and a conversation between art historian Leah Pires and neuroscientist Sara Constantino.

An unconventional catalogue gathering a rich iconography and the main text by curator Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, alongside a series of brief testimonies from seventy international artists, telling the alternative story of an icon and his corpus (includes texts by Cory Arcangel, Maurizio Cattelan, Enzo Cucchi, Jan Fabre, Victor Man, Alessandro Mendini, Tim Rollins, Marinella Senatore, Ian Tweedy…).

Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).

A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.

An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.

The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism

Somewhere in between a magazine issue, an artist's book and a research report, this Kaleidoscope Asia Special edition with guest-editor Simon Denny revolves around a new project by the New Zealand artist set in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.

New monograph: a collection of 352 watercolors made since 2006 by the painter on the theme of industrial landscapes.

Publication gathering an extensive selection of drawings produced by the German artist since the mid-nineties.

The hundred or so drawings gathered in this monograph provide an intimate glance into the work of Martial Raysse, making available for the general public a body of work that has been little known until now. With an introduction by Anaël Pigeat.

Fanzine-like artist's book gathering historical anecdotes on modern print culture.

Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).

7759 – Bodies, Logistics, and Labor is a collective collection of essays which also includes two photographic works by Stefan Burger. The publication examines the notions of surplus value, logistics and globalization, in the framework of a case study on the self-managed dockers from Genoa.

Catalogue of the 16th Art Quadriennale—the exhibition that brings together in an in-depth and articulated manner, the artistic and cultural production of Italy after 2000. The publication includes a photographic documentation revealing the 150 works on display, a glossary, and bibliographical notes.

Photographic appendix to the eponymous catalogue covering the 16th Art Quadriennale. It completes the documentation with images of the installed works and performances.

Catalogue dedicated to the Polish painter and conceptual artist, featuring his most recent works, an essay by Maria Brewińska, and an interview. The publication reviews some of Bujnowski's key concepts, such as painting as a physical object and its concomitant deconstruction, the centrality of time and the question of futurology, and the randomness of existence.

Spike #51 raises the question of the social role of art, and many more, with: Grzegorz Kowalski; Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours; Angela Bulloch on Damien Hirst; Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion; a roundtable with Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage; Dorothea Von Hantelmann; Kenny Schachter; Daniel Baumann; the portraits of Dorothy Iannone, Tetsumi Kudo, and Marie Angeletti; an interview with Josef Strau; an essay by Jan Verwoert; the TV series The Crown; Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective in LA…

Anne Pontégnie on Daan van Golden; Sérgio B. Martins on Ferreira Gullar; Documenta 14; Christo & Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence; Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley's ReActor; exhibition history: Hans Haacke in Frankfurt, 1976; Top Ten by Sol Calero; Omar Kholeif on Nil Yalter's Le Chevalier d'Éon; the art of Michael Williams; reviews from Francis Picabia and Raymond Pettibon's exhibitions in New York, and more.

Providing an important platform for new and ambitious work from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, the ninth installment of the Abraaj Group Art Prize features "seepage/ritual," an exhibition with the work of winner Rana Begum and the three short-listed artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Doa Aly, and Raha Raissnia.

The drawing tools, Richard Tuttle, Karina Bisch, Hugo Daniel, Gerard Ter Borch Le Jeune, Bianca Argimon, Mïrka Lugosi, Catharina van Eetvelde, Cameron Jamie, la collection du Musée Atger, selection of books by Brett Littman, FANFICTION 93, Anthea Lubat, Amélie Lucas-Gary and Maude Marris, Bianca Argimon...

This issue dedicated to documenta 14 addresses themes, artists, and projects spanning between Athens and Kassel. Including: Moyra Davey by Quinn Latimer; Vivian Suter & Elisabeth Sussman; Roee Rosen; “Preliminary notes for a Black manifesto” by Rasheed Araeen; Khvay Samnang “; The Globalised Museum?” by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; articles by Kirsty Bell, Irena Haiduk, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Neni Panourgiá, Dieter Roelstraete, and more.

This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.

Founded by Marinella Senatore, the School of Narrative Dance is an international initiative which proposes an alternative system of education, based on emancipation, inclusion, and self-cultivation. The School implements multidisciplinary projects focusing on storytelling and choreography. This publication documents a workshop at MAXXI, Roma, involving more than 300 people for five months.

In this publication, artist Gianfranco Baruchello and writer Michele Mari join forces to provide descriptions of their own dreams. Baruchello's illustrations and Mari's written notes unveil oneiric worlds made of symbols, recurring images, and obsessions, and address the question: just what are dreams made of?

Artist and researcher Riccardo Giacconi investigates the relationship between a range of narrative forms (puppetry, street storytellers, flyers and pamphlets) and a series of pre-political acts of revolt staged between Italy and South America. This publication documents his research project and features a series of texts, notes, archives, illustrations, and interviews.

9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.

This catalogue documents two exhibitions by Xavier Antin inspired by William Morris' anticipation novel News from Nowhere. The French artist draws from the thinking of The Arts & Crafts movement's inspirer to provide a reflection on the mutations of craftsmanship and design.

This historical essay assesses the impact of Dadaist ballet Relâches on the French artistic community by restoring the historical context that has transformed the collaboration of Picabia, Satie and Börlin into a unique event in the history of dance and performance.

African American women and literature; artistic activism in Cuba; Ouagadougou Dance triennial; interviews with Oiseaux-Tempête, Milo Rau, Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre; portraits of Morehshin Allahyari and (La) Horde; postpunk legend This Heat; theater without comedians; Clarisse Hahn & Mohamed Bourouissa; portfolio by Théo Renaut & Alicia Tréminio…

This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection.

A large collection of drawings (nearly 500 pages) documenting the artist's trip from Zurich to Japan through Siberia—with a special focus on books and trees.

This book offers a first report on the activities of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), an association for the development of an independent thought on postcolonial power relations within the global art world.

Featuring new and previous works by Sophie Dubosc, this catalogue gives a complete overview of her aesthetic reflection. Working primarily with three-dimensional forms, sculpture, raw materials, and reflecting on historical issues, the French artist's complex practice is covered by two essays, and a full-color photographic documentation section.

Series of collages based on guitar patterns found in album covers.

Eight slogans from the May 68 events in France, in duplex printing (artist's book).

A series of four geometrical and minimalist patterns drawn in red, blue, and black, inspired by a cognitive ability test, a quote from Guy Debord and the publications of Fluxus artist Emmett Williams. This artist's book is printed on light paper sheets so the patterns can be traced and used as a decoration for elbow pads and knee pads.

Quoting excerpts from Keller Easterling's 2014 essay Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, this coloring book tells the story of two characters, a fox (the artist) and a cat, and their special relationship, made of exotic travels, dreams and nightmares, struggles and desires.

2-volume set bringing together a visual catalogue of the 2016 Dhaka Art Summit and a conjunct reader addressing the themes that informed the Critical Writing Ensembles—an international platform dedicated to art writing—which gathered during the South Asian art festival.

This catalogue gives an overview of the works by German painter Matthias Dornfeld, who depicts traditional subjects of classical paintings—landscapes, portraits, still lifes—with a style inherited from naïve expressive painting.

This is the first monograph detailing the practice of the German artist Jan Peter Hammer. The two essays and the conversation between the artist and Adam Kleinmann address the economic, social and historical tones that characterize Hammer's video installations, as well as his sculptures and neon pieces, which are chronicled from 1993 to 2015.

Hopf's multidisciplinary practice addresses the paradoxes and ridicule that spill form high-minded attitudes toward art making and the faith in technology, professionalism, and efficiency. This catalogue gathers a significant sampling of her works, as well as two essays and an interview.

Following the artists' previous series of life-size puppets in Die Schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, this new publication presents a collection of one hundred sixty-four small puppets, each having a unique look.

Among Portugal's most interesting young filmmakers, Salomé Lamas explores the boundaries and circumstances of documentary filmmaking, working at the intersection of ethnography, history, storytelling, memory, and fiction. This publication documents her work since 2010, through contributions, video stills, and interviews.

First survey of the Canadian artist's writings, including a series of new and recent poems, scripts from his videos, and four fictocriticism texts published in IMPULSE magazine between 1980 and 1989.

Hallucinogenetic experiments and Persan lycanthropy.

The Seventh Issue of Zamâm magazine gathers innovative artists, curators, and art historians to investigate the relationships between the Pacific Region and the Mediterranean Basin, from Morocco to India (with Toni Maraini, Eric Baudelaire, Geeta Kapur, Touda Bouanani, Faouzi Laatiris…).

This monograph offers a sweeping vision of the work of Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi, whose paintings combine geometrical abstraction with oriental identity. The publication gathers reproductions of paintings, multidisciplinary projects, a selection of writings by the artist—log books, novel excerpts, correspondences—interviews, and critical texts.

This collective publication questions the literary strategies at stake in the work of visual artist Yoan Mudry.