Contemporary art

On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame.

Dector & Dupuy's artistic research focuses on the city as a space for improvisation and vanishing lines. This retrospective monograph listed in alphabetical order comes with an additional publication—the first issue of the duo's periodic SONG.

An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.

Art education issue.

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, Marina Pinsky's sculpted landscapes, Diller + Scofidio, Emilio Prini, Charles Harlan, Kathe Burkhart's “Liz Taylor Series”, the “networked exhibitions”...

First volume of a hors-series' collection focusing on the theory and practice of republishing and archiving.

First catalogue devoted to French artist Sarah Tritz, whose work is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach (sculpture, painting, collage, drawing). With texts by Claire Moulène and Paul Bernard, as well as an interview with the artist by Sandra Patron and Franck Balland.

British novelist Tom McCarthy questions the specific obsession with time in modern and contemporary literature, examining the works of Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. The essay is followed by a conversation with the author in which he discusses his own practice of writing.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

Major monograph on Phillip King, whose work has been essential in the revival of British sculpture in the early 1960s through experiments with abstraction, construction and color. This book gathers various texts and an interview, exhibition views, and a complete illustrated chronology over 300 pages.

First monograph.

Featuring: interviews with Constant (An Mertens, Femke Snelting), Rosa Menkman, Tristan Perich, Alberto Novello, Ralf Baecker, Phillip Galanter; an article on Simplexity, the art of the one-liner for sonic complexity, reports on “Disruption” ISEA 2015, “Test Exposure” WRO 2015, xCoAx 2015, digital news, books and records reviews...

Featuring: Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum on their book Obfuscation – A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest, interviews with Mushon Zer Aviv, Francisco López, Jacob Kirkegaard, Benjamin Grosser, and Nick Montfort, reports on Media City – Intermedia Art Festival, Piksel 2015, Renewable Futures Festival, digital news, records and books reviews…

The family archives of Július Koller's collaborator and loving partner Květa Fulierová (artist's book).

Postcards from Home documents the encounters between Roc Herms and several different avatars during his years of participation in a virtual world created for Playstation 3.

A photographic account of the life of a teenagers' group in London.

A photographic itinerary through the life of Adrià Cañameras and his girlfriend Mar in the heart of Madrid.

Ramiro E has been taking photographs of teenagers for the last twenty years, mostly in personal private sessions in his study or home, but also as editorial jobs and random street shoots. This thick volume compiles images of almost every girl he's photographed, combining many different years, formats and approaches.

The journal/catalogue conceived by Daniel Buren for his retrospective at BOZAR.

A retrial of Félix Fénéon (an artist book conceived and written by artists Sanna Marander and Niklas Tafra, with contributions by poet Claes Tellvid and assistant judge Erik Hellsten).

A panorama of Albania's contemporary art scene.

Long awaited new opus by Le Dernier Cri mastermind. Evil and degenerated interpretation of Jap B movie posters in this oversized book.

A critical and visual testimony about a cultural and artistic exchange project between the two cities of Quebec and Bangkok.

A rich and diverse panorama of football gestures selected from newspapers' photographs dating from 1990 to 2010. The aesthetic classification of these gestures opens to wider reflections on sport as choreography and artistic performance.

In the last of the wild lands: an exploration of the world's least hospitable territories which have made and still make human settlement difficult or impossible. The study is conducted by means of three work tools: a Glossary, an Atlas and a travel guide.

A review of three commissioned works executed by artist Nicolas Floc'h in isolated communities in Santiago, Chile, Rennes, and Tours, France, as part of the New Patrons program.

All posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient since 1996, with comments by Eric Vigner, Bénédicte Vigner, and Mathias Augustyniak (edition completed with a photographic booklet and the theater's 20th anniversary programming).

Following an invitation by an organization in Ardèche, Denicolai & Provoost conceived a temporary and contextual project around issues of ownership and use of the natural landscape. By migrating their project to Paris, they extended its history into the urban realm. This book documents the Parisian stage.

An account of the 21st edition of the CSAV—Artists Research Laboratory—a workshop for young artists held every year at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, with invited artists Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Kleine.

This volume presents the results of the Resò International Art Exchange program which seeks to comprehend the role and influence of evolving geography and residency on artistic practice.

The first extensive survey catalogue of Zaccagnini & Lagomarsino, a selection of works from 2001 to 2015 especially displayed by artist Luca Frei and which reflects the two artists' transnational ideals.

With Marie and William, Alex Cecchetti attempts to transpose the performative gesture in the space of the book.

Artist's book / exhibition index.

Bruce McLean plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

This book documents the eponymous work by British artist Patrick Staff a film installation exploring queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the gay icon Tom of Finland's Foundation in Los Angeles with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.

The first fifteen years of Patrick Tuttofuoco's career in 16 written portraits.

Artist Marc Horowitz has photographed each page of an art catalogue by Phillips, the famous auction house in New York, having placed on the pages the residues of junk food: an irreverent work staging the encounter between art and consumption (artist's book).

With Collective Memory, Mustapha Akrim appropriates one of the most pervasive and widely circulated media of official postcolonial visual culture, the Moroccan dirham. At stake here is how visual representation affects political representation and vice versa.

An unpublished novel by one of the great figures of Land art.

Cheerleading & The Rite of Spring, filmmaker Virgil Vernier, special segment on Mauritania, Tuareg bluesman Mdou Moctar, the self-managed cultural center L'Usine in Geneva, the occupancy of Vivat theater in Armentières, interviews with Franck Vigroux and Eszter Salamon, a tribute to Alban Denuit, war, God, and the act of writing...

In over 40 years, Sue Williams' art has continuously explored and challenged the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender, and culture. This first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the American artist follows her work from the early 1980s to her most recent paintings.

The publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.

What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).

Le Jardin hospitalier documents Jyll Bradley's eponymous site-specific artwork produced in April 2015 under the auspices of the Fondation de France's New Patrons program, at Hospital Roger Salengro in Lille, France. The artist has transformed a 100m long, window-less corridor into an immersive installation—a promenade—with black-lit photographs, literary texts and tactile sculptural elements

The small opera created by Nicolas Murer for Lili Reynaud-Dewar's installation presented at the 2014 Venice Biennale, sung by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Nicolas Murer and the choir of HEAD, Geneva.

Françoise et Jean-Philippe Billarant's collection of minimal and conceptual art.

German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.

Artist's book.