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Zona Festival
2024
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Punch
This book traces the legacy of Zona, Eastern Europe performance art festival that took place in Timișoara, Romania, between 1993 and 2002, years which were marked by a transition from communism to a new society built on different principles.
Marion Baruch - Tzimtzum
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Paul Neagu -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals.
Serge Lemoine - Nicolas Ionesco - « Du spirituel dans l\'art »
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Alina Popa - Unsorcery
2022
English edition
Punch
A collection of writings by Alina Popa and Florin Flueras written over a seven-year period (new expanded edition).
Ana Lupas - Drawing The Solemn Process
2021
English edition
various
The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams - 1976-1979
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z
2021
English edition
Punch
Kilobase Bucharest A-Z is a publication aimed at describing Bucharest through a sort of experimental primer: for each letter of the english alphabet, 26 artists and collectives have chosen a key term that represents a sliver of the Romanian capital. The resulting portrait conveys the essence of Bucharest from a subjective standpoint that captures the infinite facets of the city's life and culture.
Bezna
2021
English edition
Punch
An anthology of the artists' zine.
Mihai Barabancea - Falling on Blades
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographer Mihai Barabancea portrays the underworld of post-Soviet Romania and Moldova: a set of subjects and scenes revealing the crude reality of the streets, zeroing in on moments of ruthless rawness and keen poignancy.
Marion Baruch -
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First comprehensive monograph.
Flaviu Cacoveanu - Idea list
2020
English edition
Punch
Artist's book.
Isidore Isou - Antonin Artaud torturé par les psychiatres
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.
 Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan - Debrisphere - Landscape as Extension of the Military Imagination
2019
English edition
Punch
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Isidore Isou
2019
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
Victor Man - Childhood Drawings for Rózsa
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book reproduces a series of comics made by Victor Man when he was a child in communist Romania in the early 1980s. These drawings reveal the artist's fascination for the then rare Western magazines. The publication opens with a letter from Victor Man to little Rózsa, to whom the book is dedicated.
Vlad Nancă - Souvenir
2018
English edition
Punch
The first monographic publication dedicated to one of the foremost artists of his generation and a key figure in the development of Bucharest's artistic community in the early 2000s.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang !
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, this leporello by Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang ! - Limited edition
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
Frédéric Alix - Penser l\'art et le monde après 1945 - Isidore Isou, essai d\'archéologie d\'une pensée
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Analyzing the theoretical and aesthetic thought of the founder of Lettrism in the intellectual context of the post-war and up to 1968.
Black Hyperbox
2017
English edition
Punch
(last copies available!)
This publication covers the discursive outcome of the project “Black Hyperbox”—a frame for performance and text based on the alienation between practice and conceptualization.
Victor Man - Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough
2017
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book focusing on Victor Man's series of paintings first exhibited as part of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and later developed for a solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B, Berlin. The publication includes essays by poet and translator Bogdan Ghiu, curator Mihnea Mircan, and literary critic Laura Pavel.
Alexandra Croitoru - Brancusi - An Afterlife
2016
English edition
Archive Books
An analysis of the posthumous interpretations of Brancusi's life and work, and of the political use of the Romanian sculptor as a nationalist figure.
Juliette Laffon - Hajdu
2016
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Richly illustrated publication recounting the life of French sculptor Étienne Hajdu.
The Brancusi Effect - An Archival Impulse
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Based on Brancusi's photographic archives, this publication reflects on the sculptor's influence on Minimalism and installation.
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries - 1970-1975
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Ion Grigorescu's diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975, a small literary and art-historical sensation.
Ion Grigorescu - The Man with a Single Camera
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescu's body of work since the late 1960s until today.
Daniel Knorr - Led R. Nanirok
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on one of the most important Romanian artists of the younger generation.
Mircea Cantor -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph providing a worthwhile introduction to the Romanian multi-talented artist.
Periferic 7 - International Biennal for Contemporary Art / Focussing Iaşi / Strategies of learning
2006
trilingual edition (English / French / Romanian)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
(last copies available!)
A project developed as part of Periferic 7 - International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Romania, for highlightning Romania's contemporary art history and art scene.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque - Limited edition
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.
Loulou Picasso - Peisaj
1995
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Twelve Romanian landscapes (oil on canvas).
Alina Popa - Square of Will in Square of Love - Texts, Notes, Drawings
2019
English edition
Punch
sold out
A collection of texts, notes and drawings from Alina Popa (1982-2019), edited as a tribute publication by her longtime accomplice, the artist Florin Flueras. A political and theoretical work that questioned both the intimate and social mechanisms of the contemporary.
Octavian Nemescu - Gradeatia / Natural - 1973-83 (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
Two electronic pieces by avant-garde Romanian composer Octavian Nemescu. Recorded in 1982, Gradeatia is an ambient track designed to accompany the mural paintings at the Voronet monastery in Romanian Moldavia. The second composition, Natural, appears in its original version of 1973, and in its final version of 1983.
Saul Steinberg - 4 Leporellos - The Line / Types of Architecture / Shores of the Mediterranean / Cities of Italy
2014
no text
Nieves
sold out
4 leporellos in slipcase: an artist's book that brings together for the first time, as individual leporellos, the four long drawings Saul Steinberg produced for the Children's Labyrinth at the Milan Triennale in 1954.
Geta Brătescu - Atelierul | The Studio
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Reference monograph dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde.
Isidore Isou - Hypergraphic Novels - 1950-1984
2012
English edition
various
sold out
First publication dedicated to Isou's extensive work with hypergraphics.
Saul Steinberg - The Line
2011
no text
Nieves
sold out
Leporello.
Victor Man - attebasile
2009
no text
various
sold out
Artist's book.
Victor Man -
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph (painting, sculpture, installation, wall painting, printing).
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
sold out
New edition of the Letterist manifesto.
Daniel Spoerri - Le Carnaval des animaux
1996
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Daniel Spoerri's works declining the variations from the drawings of Charles Le Brun's animals to understand the human face.
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