Contemporary art

This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.

Since 1986, Max Armengaud takes photographic portraits of European Institutions, from the Paris Opera to the Vatican city.

Sport shows & jubilating fans drawn with minimalism (artist's book).

A series of geometrical abstractions forming symbolic totems that draw on the annals of visual history.

The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.

An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.

Céline Condorelli; emerging artists lga Balema, Darja Bajagić, Sasha Braunig, Rachel Rose, and Marguerite Humeau; the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon with Pedro Barateiro; Ryan Gander; Michael E. Smith; Josh Kline; GCC Collective; Villa Design Group; Lena Henke and Anna Gritz; Wim Beeren; Jean-Max Colard on poetry in the exhibition space...

By creasing photographs from the golden age of porn magazine, Patrick Weidmann dismantles their deep-rooted conservative values and reconstructs an underlying aesthetics, an underside of desire.

A project by internationally working documentary photographer Claudio Cambon that tells the story of the last voyage, dismantling, and recycling of an American merchant vessel in Bangladesh in the late 1990's.

An artist's book presenting an extensive series of grilles from American cars built between 1955 and 1962. A book allowing multiple readings and meanings, in a balance between conceptual rigor and visual sensuality.

Sicilia Bambaataa is a booklet, risograph printed, which documents the namesake installation, a “soundscape” within the Museo Civico in Castelbuono, Sicily which plays in loop, repeating the audio recording of the dawn chorus, slowly diminishing as the city awakes.

Featuring: Frances Stark, Rachel Rose, Christodoulos Panayiotou & Salvatore Settis, Valeria Luiselli, Heman Chong, the emerging art of India, Cameron Rowland...

The 2015-2016 edition of contemporary art's directory & referential book Art Diary, released by Flash Art Books, celebrating its 40 years with a new design and new editorial content. Updated every year with more than a thousand new addresses, this Who's Who lists essential information about the main actors in the field of art (over 50,000 entries).

Issue 2 features an extensive look at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the context of universal museums worldwide by Kanishk Tharoor; Marina Fokidis on artists and galleries in Athens after economic crash; rising costs and problematic leadership in art school today; Amy Winehouse documentary and structural changes in film after a turn toward digital; interviews with architect Liz Diller and artist Agnieszka Kurant, reviews from New York, L.A., Tokyo...

The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.

A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.

Sylvie Fleury's chromatic and esoteric works from the 2000's are presented together for the first time with her classic pieces from the 1990's in this reference monograph. It thus offers readers a new way to register Fleury's contribution to the art of the last decades.

A review of voluntary bareness and simplicity practices in art.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian & Frank Stella, Art & Architecture, A.K. Burns, Dance Factory (by Sven Lütticken), Richard Rezac, Kelly Akashi, Mernet Larsen, Oscar Enberg, Calvin Marcus, Yves Scherer, How to become a very famous artist (by Chus Martínez), Irena Haiduk, Jim Shaw, Bruno Gironcoli, The Materiality of Digital Forms...

Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.

Mottled sausages, icy landscapes with worms that seem to have died trying to make it over hurdles, portals to impossible lands: welcome to the accidental world of ceramist and drawer Anne Brugni.

A provocative interrogation of race and identity in contemporary Italy envisioned by visual artists, scholars and writers from Africa, Europe and the United States exploring new forms of subjectivity and agency shaped by history, immigration and integration, the legacy of colonialism and persistent stereotypes (a project curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Storr and Peter Benson Miller).

The text published in Villa is a risograph printed transcript of a heretofore unpublished manuscript by Emilio Villa, written around 1962 and addressed to the painter Mario Schifano. The publication remains faithful to the original document and thus there have been no spelling or language corrections.

The artist's magazine's rich and diverse third issue welcomes fiction for the first time.

Featuring: Radhouane El Meddeb, Greil Marcus, Samuel Gratacap, Miguel Gomes, art market and money laundering, portoflios bu Julien Lombardi and Samuel Richardot, Lydia Thompson and her sulphurous “ British Blondes”, Pagu...

A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.

This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon & Jeon's collaborative project “News from Nowhere” premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable.

Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.

An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

A documentation on the development and reception of Daniel Buren's monumental in situ work in the gardens of the Sacred Heart Church of Casablanca.

In the series of works In Places Jason Kahn explores a variety of places and investigate them through their sounds. Influenced by Henri Lefebvre's theories, Kahn the musician experiences the daily rythms of life and how space is formed and reflected.

This trilingual publication dedicated to the Polish artist and theorist deceased in 2014 emphasize his essential contribution to action art by gathering previously unpublished articles from his friends and colleagues in the contemporary art world. The authors recount his ideas, career and influence. Photos, reproductions of the artist's original articles and a DVD all serve to enrich this publication.

Artist's book.

Reference monograph dedicated to Marc-Antoine Fehr's paintings whose strangeness recall the absurd universes of Beckett and Kafka.

A comprehensive monograph covering Nannucci's whole career and presenting a selection of his major projects.

This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.

In this catalogue, Charles Mayton interrogates the techniques, vocabulary and conventions of painting, exploring the essence of the table.

Labics: Structures covers an installation of 50 architectural models realized by the studio Labics between 2014 and 2015.

Alex Hubbard's first comprehensive monograph, Eat Your Friends is also an artist's book.

Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…

Up to date / Art, biology, (Al)Chem(istr)y / Etre étonné, c'est un bonheur ! (Ardouvin, Bagot, Barbazanges, Brial, Chotard, Darrot, Davrinche, Pierre & Gilles, Rauzier, Rousseau, Villeglé) / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot / Jocelyn Robert / Pascal Pinaud.

Filip Markiewicz presents a mental image of Luxembourg combined with a reflection on contemporary identity (exhibition catalogue for the Luxemburg Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

The guide of the video and digital art collection.

An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.

An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.

The reader of the 8th Momentum Nordic Biennial which explores tunnel vision as a cultural and artistic condition.

This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.

The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).