Contemporary art

Reference monograph.

An artist's book / catalogue that, rather than focusing on the famous images made by Juergen Teller for fashion and luxury industries, aims to underline the particular aesthetic dimension of his photographic work in general.

A typographic composition inspired by Shining accursed writer's manuscript in which only appears one sentence, constantly repeated: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

The 6th issue of May focuses on a selection of writings about the artist Paul Thek (1933-1988).

This mini, compact catalogue, accompanies the eponymous exhibition at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux.

A survey of Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work (photographs, films, video installations, sound works), from 1960 to the present day.

A selection of comics and paintings by legendary cartoonist Gary Panter. Including unpublished works from the Jimbo and William & Percy series as well as Smoke Wagon's complete comic strips, Panter's collaboration with Marvel comics on Omega the Unknown, and sketchbooks from 1979 and 2009.

Artist's book.

The legendary Azeri magazine.

A collaborative artist's book and audio recording which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism. The play and book are based on the Texan serial killer Dean Corll.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

Leporello.

A loose-leaf artist's book working as an extension and exegesis of Bürner's film Leaves.

Richly documented, this first monograph published in Europe gathers Larry Bell's archives, alongside with new commissioned essays by the artist, Marie de Brugerolle, Annette Leddy and John C. Welchman.

Richly documented, this first monograph published in Europe gathers Larry Bell's archives, alongside with new commissioned essays by the artist, Marie de Brugerolle, Annette Leddy and John C. Welchman.

A book based on the photographic research for Korine's latest directorial project of the same name (limited edition).

Interviews with Edouard Baribeaud, Françoise Pétrovitch, DoubleBob, Yûichi Yokoyama, Paul Cox, Gary Panter, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Antonio Gallego & Éric Watier, Masist Gül : Kaldırım Destanı, Laura Brothers, Louise Despont, CF, Killoffer & Jochen Gerner.

Baudouin de Jaer decodes Adolf Wölfli's hermetic and emblematic scores.

A limited edition containing twelve selected Bless lookbook-magazines ('SUP MAGAZINE, Capricious Magazine, mono.kultur, Paris-La, Purple Magazine, Textfield, etc.) held together by a Bless n° 43 Handle.

An archive of vandalism.

Conceived as an artist's book as well as a work of art, All I remember, is a collection of 477 backs of photos retrieved from the archives of the most important daily newspapers in the world, collected and photographed by the artist over the last three years. Benassi has selected the most significant photos of the 20th century in a backwards route through personal and collective memories.

A portrait gallery of metal monsters.

This issue explores the legacy of the mythological, religious, and scientific figures from modern Orientalism.

A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.

First monograph.

A global guidebook of transformation processes.

A selection of recent writings by the art critic, galvanizing central themes Verwoert has been developing in pursuit of a language to describe art's transformative potential in conceptual, performative, and emotional terms.

First monograph on the work of the Swiss artist.

A collection of influential essays by Boris Groys.

First monograph dedicated to Franco-marocan video-artist's films (installations or movies), dealing with the notions of movement, relation and distance, on the borderline between visual arts, documentary, and cinema.

First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.

Learning to Breathe Protest / Alexandre Costanzo / Karl Holmqvist / Camille Pageard / Robert McKenzie / Gallien Déjean / Kim West / Elisabeth Lebovici / Clément Rodzielski...

Twenty-three portraits (emblematic paintings from 1959 to 2006).

10th issue, focusing on the blue hour and color (with Aki Goto, Susan Cianciolo, Bless, Laetitia Benat, Aoi Nagae, Yukinori Maeda, Akira Onozuka, Takashi Homma, Akira Minagawa, Nobuya Hitsuda, Shimabuku, Katsumi Omori, Mark Borthwick, Takehito Koganezawa).

This book brings together visual and written documentation of BLESS's last twelve collections (N° 30–N° 41), continually prompting and challenging the question of where a product begins and ends.

Complete monograph bringing the diverse aspects of Moyra Davey's work together.

An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.

A selection of Parreno's films and collaborative projects.

Comprised of a lecture by Christoph Menke and two respective responses to it by Daniel Loick and Isabelle Graw, The Power of Judgment both attests to the importance of judgment in art criticism and argues against its determining verdicts.

Exhaustive monograph

Artist's book (limited edition).

A photographic journey.

With Beni Bischof, Chris Johanson, Dimitri Broquard, Hendrik Hegray, Ingo Giezendanner, Johanna Jackson, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann, Stefan Marx, Warja Lavater, Will Sweeney.

A performance piece about weakness and public embarrassment (edition of 30 numbered copies).

A performance piece about the Abu Ghraib tortures (edition of 30 numbered copies).

The 4th issue of May makes an atypical choice by publishing a very large section of archival material coming from what is called the“feminist nebula” in Italy in the 1970s. Beyond their great historical, aesthetic and literary value, these documents contribute to the line of thinking pursued by the magazine to re-posit the terms of a social critique in relation to the critique of present-day artistic production.