Contemporary art

The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.

High Winds is an artist's book written by Sylvan Oswald, with graphics by Jessica Fleischmann. This “western phantasmagoria” is a bedtime book for adults based on Oswald's experiences with insomnia, gender transition, and moving to Los Angeles.

This publication gathers drawings, paintings and silkscreens, as well as references to readings that nourish both Atelier McClane's reflection and editorial work. All of that constitutes a reflexive system about their practice.

A series of 26 prints of lithographic stones, reflecting on Ed Ruscha's work (artist's book).

An important work by American artist Mel Bochner yet strangely it remains little-known.

This handbook traces ten years of activity of Glitch and IKHÉA©SERVICES—two collaborative projects initiated by artist Jean-Baptiste Farkas.

Similar to a travel diary, sprinkled with tropes of paradisiacal holidays, Dos Imperial interweaves the work of an artist, Bruno Aeberli, a graphic designer, Pauline Piguet, and a writer, Simon Dubois.

This book displays the unseen early artworks from Loulou Picasso while he was in art school till the begining of Bazooka in 1976. It also includes some collaboration with Olivia Clavel and Romain Slocombe. Foreword by Genesis P-Orridge.

An in-depth manual for staging a private (or public) performance by Istanbul-based artist Cevdet Erek.

A complete survey of performance arts between Canada, Peru, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany, and Slovakia.

A series of sculptures set in a roofless exhibition space in Merida, Mexico.

In (ZUS), a visual essay by the French photographer Benoît Fougeirol, views of and views from eleven of the “Zones urbaines sensibles” (Sensitive Urban Zones) on the peripheries of Paris reveal harsh paradoxes of modern society. The series is accompanied by a text by author Jean-Christophe Bailly.

This collaborative artist's book is a work of fiction set in a Kafkaesque world where creativity is a criminal offence and artists are imprisonned. Alexandra Grant's text, the testimony of the prison's warden, is powerfully illustrated by Eve Wood's drawings.

Notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts.

Issue of the Cahiers du Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel dedicated to French artist Jean-Christophe Norman with essays by Jean-Michel Espitallier, Patrice Joly, Frank Smith, Ulrich Weber, and an original work by Norman inspired by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt's library.

With this collage book Polish artist Olga Lewicka draws an illuminating parallel between the visual and cultural history of clouds and the historical development and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.

A collection of misprinted sheets originating from books designed by graphic designer Manuel Raeder: a “behind the scene” project, which documents the early stage of book production and its conventions.

The second issue of Frédéric Acquaviva and La Plaque Tournante's audio / video hybrid magazine includes documents on Trevor Wishart, Denis Dufour, Hém-Ish, Ione, Broutin, François Poyet, Johannes Kreidler, Gil J Wolman at work, a film by Frédéric Acquaviva on the late Pauline Oliveros, Silva Gabriela Béju on Henri Chopin and the magazine OU, a set of posters and postcards…

Collage-book from vintage strip-tease magazines.

The best of 2016: Seventeen distinguished contributors consider the year in art; “The Artists' Artists,” reflections of the most striking single work, event or exhibition of 2016; Top Tens on the best in film, music, books, and performance from John Waters, Angel Olsen, and Terry Castle, and a special section on “The Year In Shock.”

French artist Raphaëlle Paupert-Borne summons the myth of Demeter in an epic film shot in the Mediterranean city of La Ciotat. This edition also features a short documentary on a series of drawings made by the artist in Algeria, and an accompanying book which includes texts by specialists, film captions and sketches.

Limited edition of the notebook from the South African artist featuring fountain pen's drawings and writings with inserted typescripts, and an original work, numbered and signed, printed on various formats (1920's coal mining register, books pages, card stock).

This publication serves as an extension of Joachim Koester's artworks and research on Jerzy Grotowski's (1933-1999) mythical persona and experimental approach towards theater. More specifically here, Koester retraces Grotowski's trips to Mexico with the help of historians, anthropologists, and former students.

10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Reference monograph (also available in English).

This publication collects black and white photographs taken at apartment viewings in Berlin, London and Zürich in 2015. The images render a landscape of apartments, mostly empty, punctuated by potential buyers or renters projecting their own possible futures onto the spaces.

Photographic companion book to the film La controfigura (“The stand-in”) by Rä di Martino: the tale of a cinema troupe in Marrakech trying to shoot the remake of The Swimmer, the 1968 film with Burt Lancaster, based on a short story of the same name by John Cheever.

This Flipbook by Michalis Pichler is a reformulation of the artist's film Une Seconde d'Éternité (d'après un idée de Charles Baudelaire) by Marcel Broodthaers (8mm film, b/w, 1 sec.).

Monograph featuring series of paintings made by the French-American artist between 2013 and 2016 and based from photographic documents originating mainly from sexploitation films of the 1960s. The volume also includes two essays and exhibitions views.

Outside museums, on the roadsides, a journey through the gardens and backyards of Europe and America to discover the "madmen's art": an illustrated essay on the birth and the future of Art Brut (new expanded edition).

The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.

The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.

An analysis of the work of an unheralded artist both profound and captivating written by his friend, artist and curator Stefan Banz.

The history of the emergence and appropriation of the score in extra-musical domains (theater, dance, performance).

A special section on Artists on Politics featuring Zoe Leonard, Dread Scott, and Wolfgang Tillmans, the architecture of Donald Trump, Johanna Fateman on Paul Verhoeven's new film Elle, a Top Ten from DJ collective Discwoman, and Joseph Gringley's portfolio “Soundscaping.” Plus, reviews from Tallinn, Washington DC, Munich, Sharjah, Paris, and more.

Istanbul's artistic scene and Erdogan's Purge, Jan Fabre, Thibaud Croisy & Bruno Le Maire, failure and the creative process, Hillel Kogan, Jean-Luc Verna, interviews with El Conde de Torrefiel, Albert Serra, Hélène Marquié, portfolio by Leonard Suriyajaya & Simon Collet...

This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.

This publication brings forward the continuous commitment of Lafayette Fondation towards artistic and interdisciplinary production, on the eve of its forthcoming opening in Paris.

Expanding its mapping of landmark exhibitions and curatorial history from the 1960s to today, the “Archives” series dedicates its fifth DVD to Sonsbeek, an art manifestation held in 1971 and 1986 in and around Arnhem (Netherlands). Mainly showcasing large installations and sculptures in natural surroundings, these two events are crucial to the history of outdoor exhibitions, shifting the boundaries of traditional sculpture.

A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.

A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.

Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.

Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.

Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.

Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.

Part fact, part fiction, this collaborative artist's novel is set in the curious town of Kalimpong, India, where past meets present in a multi-layered tale of espionage and the esoteric.

An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.

An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.