Contemporary art

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

New Africa gives a photographic redefinition of the African territory, influences and cultures. Beyond Afro-pessimism and outdated folklore figures, this publication reveals the multiple identities of the Arab-African human being.

Taking as its starting point a pilgrimage that takes place in Italy during the day of the dead, this publication is part of a collective and multidisciplinary project which aims to reflect upon death, to more deeply celebrate life.

An innovative examination of Jeff Wall's photography.

This richly illustrated catalogue presents the work of Florence Louise Petetin in all its variety: paintings, drawings, graphic works, performances, texts, video, etc. In appendix, a selection of texts and poems by the artist.

This catalogue documents the theoretical and practical research stemming from a project inspired by the legendary exhibition “Art by Telephone” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1969, extending it today with contributions from new artists. The works were first orally conveyed by telephone to then be interpreted, activated, and produced by art students.

A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.

The novel by Brian O'Doherty, written from the perspective of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810), who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity, reveals the radical modernity of one of the eighteenth century's most mysterious figures.

A protean series of works in which artist Fatima Mazmouz thinks her pregnant body as an artistic process and as a place of performance.

An A-to-Z of the exhibition.

First monograph.

Reprint of Dieter Roth's artist's book published in 1968 in Stuttgart by Hansjörg Mayer.

The social dimensions of artist's books.

Essays and conversations about the practice of exhibition making; artistic projects and conversations of artists and curators (Ruba Katrib and Anthea Hamilton, Anna Gritz and Richard Sides, Diego Perrone by Cecilia Canziani, Parker Ito by Liv Barrett, George Henry Longly and Nicoletta Lambertucci, Michele Abeles and Margaret Lee, Ian Cheng, Tilman Hornig, Sara Cwynar...).

Fully illustrated catalogue of the 14th Geneva Biennial, re-launched by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The 2014 edition presents 22 films and video works, specially commissioned by the Centre (from September 18 to November 23, 2014).

For its ten-year anniversary, the magazine addresses the fascination and obsession towards the conquest of space. The issue invites Italian authors to discuss the subject of outer space, and artists in residence at the French Space Agency document their projects (Pierre Senges, Charles Pennequin, Jean Lambert-wild, Vannina Maestri, Éric Pessan).

A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).

Dedicated to the complex, proliferative and innovative work of a major figure in the art of the second half of the XXth century, this comprehensive monograph highlights Dieter Roth's creative processes and the way he pushes them to the limit.

Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).

Six hundred watercolors realized by Yvan Salomone during the first fifteen years of his career (1991-2006).

An anthology.

Art in the city.

New monograph.

Critical photography.

A selection of Erik Steinbrecher's collected sketches and drawings from the early 80ies up until now.

An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.

The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimer's invitation to present his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition “Villa Romana 1905–2013: Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz” at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.

Seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert.

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

A new collaborative publication, that has evolved within the framework of two geographically separate yet collaboratively conceived exhibitions.

How the diagrammatic forms affect the worlds of images in contemporary art.

Catalogue / collective artists' book.

A complete documentation on Francesco Arena's installation for the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Artist's book.

Reference monograph.

A new perspective on one of the most sticking bodies of work to have emerged in the last twenty years.

A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.

Artist's book / catalogue.

Artist's book / catalogue.

The art of etching in Hartung's work

New expanded edition: this reference monograph, realized in close collaboration with the artist, presents a 10-year overview of Walead Beshty's approach to photographic and sculptural representation.

Artist's book.

Special issue (two of two): sixteen exhibitions held in 2013 as part of the "Ulysses" curatorial program coordinated by the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, on the occasion of Marseille-Provence 2013.

Richard Nonas / Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel / Hans Segers / Sylvie Bonnot / Les Ateliers du Plessix-Madeuc / Lionel Redon / Claire Tabouret / Peter Soriano / Ulla von Brandenburg / Marianne Berenhaut.

A compilation of interviews with thirty-one artists related to questions about the value of attention and spectacle..

Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.

The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Comprehensive monograph.

The first edition of the triennial of contemporary art Bergen Assembly.

Critical texts by Kim Gordon brought together for the first time.