Contemporary art

Poppy Jones' first monograph spotlights ninety works made over the past four years, foregrounded by a conversation between Jones and Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema.

em>Form of Contingency and Pattern of Imminence by Gabriel Kuri combines photographs of emergency plans and cleaning charts with layered drawings, challenging the boundary between chaos and structure. Featuring Kuri's works and an essay by James Cahill, this book offers a profound exploration of inevitability, contingency, and the human need to organize the unpredictable.

Comprehensive monograph.

60 painted portraits of friends at work from the art world and culture.

The enigmatic oil paintings of Sicilian-born artist Tancredi Liliana Salone, “premonitory memories” of a disturbing future, a dystopia steeped in ancient images.

Six sound games to play at home or on stage, even without musical expertise! (a project by the Jeux Sonores collective, initiated in 2021 by Sébastien Roux, which brings together five people with a variety of practices and backgrounds, at the intersection of the sound arts, musical mediation and scientific research).

An artist's book, in magazine form, dedicated to urban bollards, with numerous contributions.

D'ici Fessenheim replicates and extends Élise Alloin's artistic research in the Fessenheim area, following the shutdown in 2020 of France's oldest nuclear power plant and the first in a series of dismantling operations to come.

Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists (as well as the cult images of Toiletpaper) who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds.

A public record document containing the list of all artworks that hang in the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence, as submitted by the Prime Minister's Office in response to a Right-to-Information application filed by the artist Nihaal Faizal (artists' book).

First Aristide Bianchi's monograph, focusing on a plastic gesture born at the turn of the century: the material opening of a sheet of paper meets previous traces to form the drawing.

"Labo d'objet", a research laboratory run by UR Design & Création at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, proposes a visual reflection by creating images that associate concrete with vehicles such as cars, motor homes, tractors and caravans, at the crossroads of industrial culture and creative experimentation.

All television images seem to be the same image. An artist and researcher at the Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design, Lorenza Mannaioni, attempts to prove this with this book of felt-tip pen images.

The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

Focus on the blockchain digital ecosystem: art on the web of value.

Dawoud Bey, "Orphism in Paris", Barbara DeGenevieve, Andy Warhol, Gary Indiana, Roy Ascott, Kai Althoff, Larissa Fassler...

Exploring a pioneering curator's collection of cutting-edge '60s and '70s California art.

Comprehensive monograph: a complete overview of Salvo's work, with never-seen-before documentation and archive.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.

Chris Johanson's ant and abstract paintings.

A panorama of the work of French painter Silvère Jarrosson (lithographs, monotypes, paintings on canvas and on paper).

Irène Schwartz's notebooks enable us to follow the entire creative process that, between 1973 and 1983, led the artist to three actions in the field of body art or, more specifically, eat art.

The 22nd volume of the artist's journal that the photographer has been publishing for over two decades.

Issue 39 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Following on from work carried out by artist Marianne Mispelaëre in schools, this book explores the diversity of languages that permeate our lives, as well as the political and social issues at stake.

Mousse celebrates its 90th issue with a collectible edition, with a special design and format, entirely focused on fiction.

As the most comprehensive monograph on Synnøve Anker Aurdal's work to date, Through the Threads writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this textile pioneering artist.

The first examination of the practices of two French artists who were key exponents of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, highlighting two opposing and complementary aspects of their poetics.

South African, Amsterdam-based artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu's most expansive publication to date.

Monograph/artist's book featuring numerous exhibition views, texts and an interview, and a series of drawings by Fernão Cruz.

New monograph.

First monograph.

The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.

A critical reflection on colonial spaces initiated by the Portuguese artist.

A layered graphic novel, conceived as a video-game trailer, weaving together diverse imaginaries, from Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony to H.G. Wells' short stories, from brutalist architecture to generative artificial intelligence.

A memetic exploration of the "poor images" found on the fringes of the internet's dynamic and ever-expanding reservoir of content.

An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.

Seven exhibitions on paper, curated by different curators, to look back at the over-thirty-years production of one of Europe's foremost contemporary artists.

A series of photographs of Naples, by Jim C. Nedd, blending and reinterpreting elements from diverse iconographic traditions, such as fashion photography, documentary, and tableau vivant.

A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.

An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.

Pisseurses brings together a series of oil pastel drawings and portraits of the artist and her comrades urinating outdoors in a variety of contexts. A brief science-fiction short story carries the whole into a utopian dimension that re-signifies the trivial act of miction.