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“Romance” mûre is a dark cartoon influenced by various elements of Japanese folklore (supernatural creatures, samurai), J-Horror and Otaku countercultures, art brut and collage. The strips are invaded by coral and plant forms and depict a world of young schoolgirls struggling with monsters, rotten or decapitated bodies, ghosts...

Contributions by Elein Fleiss, Pascale Gatzen, Susan Cianciolo, Ryoko Aoki, Takehito Koganezawa, Aoi Nagae, Erika Kobayashi, Ryoko Aoki, Kei Takemura, Yukinori Maeda, Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger...

Water, porcelain bowls, hydrophones, condenser microphones, metal wire and wood spoons (vinyl re-issue of the CD released by and/OAR in 2009).

100 minutes of electronic noise music and harsh speeches: a road movie between Beijing and Shanghai featuring Torturing Nurse, Wang Changcun, Wang Fan, Li Jian Hung / Dickson Dee, the poet Sun Meng Jin and Zbigniew Karkowski as radical red line.

150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.

29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.

Artist's book (monochrome prints of Terence Koh's haunting photography layered with drawings).

The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”

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).

The new Cosmic Wonder issue is devoted to an ecological clothing line, photographed by artist Laetitia Benat.

Special "loneliness" issue, with contributions by Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Bless, Elein Fleiss...

Six colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada.

A "picture biography".

Katagiri's skillful pen drawings.

A visual interpretation of Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood.

A photo book in which Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Takashi Homma, and Henry Roy describe four scenes of everyday life.

An open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of Cosmic Wonder in printed form, with a fold-out poster and 2 audio CDs.

Reading of One Million Years (Past and Future 51 – 62) by male and female voices (250 copies limited edition wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs).

Artist's book / complete monograph, with a selection of Mai-Thu Perret's texts and a specially designed collage of references.

First retrospective monograph, conceived by the artist, with 1000 color reproductions and numerous texts.

Special "Paris–Tokyo" issue of the graphic magazine by Japanese artist (with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Kim Gordon...).

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition Hartung in China, on the relations between calligraphy and Western painting, taking Hans Hartung's work as starting point.

Box gathering the two volumes of the catalogue Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, published for the world tour of the exhibition by On Kawara.

The story of Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare by Japanese graphic designer. Printed in six colors, including fluorescent yellow and pink.

A new unconventional periodical publication by the Japanese artist / designer Yukinori Maeda (b/w, gold and silver printed drawings and photographies).

Catalogue published, as a second volume, after the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, gathering the complete documentation produced for the exhibitions and presenting the installations views.

Special "traveling" issue, with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anne Daems, Susan Cianciolo, Els Beusen, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimi, Yayako Uchida, Takako Minekawa, Yurie Nagashima, Bless.

Reference monograph: an overview of a sound art pionner's career through documentation of seminal projects, including a CD of works ranging from early performance experiments to current digital projects.

Catalog published for the two exhibitions of the artist in Shangai and Guangdong in 2005.

The 1990s in eleven "Date Paintings" As one of the most important Conceptual artists, On Kawara features in most of the surveys on post-war art. This book, conceived in close collaboration with On Kawara himself, takes a very intimate form in comparison to many monographs published recently. This seems an appropriate manner in which to discover eleven paintings created over a decade, letting the viewer complete their reading with personal associations, historical events, or academic interpretations. “Perhaps,” writes Thierry Davila in his text, “art is simply a particular way of taking time … So the work, the on-going creation is essentially a question of using time … ” Seen from this perspective On Kawara has invented a simple and striking way to make art, by taking time, taking his time. He found a way to use the calendar to make a kind of “non-individual” art work. In his Date Paintings, time itself has become a piece of art. The work is pure realism, the existence of time put in painting, thus rendering it—up to a certain point—viewable and readable.

First monograph.

First monograph.

Chen Zhen talks to Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Eleonor Heartney, Emma Lavigne, Ken Lum, Enrico Lunghi, Yves Michaux, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jérôme Sans and Nari Ward and others who shared his adventure in art (available in English edition).

Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.

Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.

French edition (available in English).

The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.

Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.

Foreword The Rodin Gallery has benn the site of an outstanding series of exhibitions featuring a wide spectrum of contemporary artists and including works such as The Gates of Hell and The Burghers of Calis by modern sculpture's seminal artist and master, Auguste Rodin. Thus it gives us great pleasure to develop for the first time a collaborative work with Le consortium, a leading contemporary art center in France on the occasion of the presentation of Wang Du's Disposable Reality. Wang Du, who was trained as sculptor in China within an academic tradition, works with images taken as readymade from newspapers, magazines and advertisements and transforms these two dimensional media images into three dimensional painted sculptural works with his own masterly skill. Through the information conveyed by articles on politics, economics, society, sports, leisure and fashion the artist expresses his feeling, often in a pointed, satirical manner, about the ordinary and our social reality. In this exhibition I believe there is special meaning in seeing the direct confrontation and dialogue between the works of Rodin, which deal with human emotions and those of Wang Du, which deal with contemporary issues in our daily life with sculptures as a common denominator. The vocabularies of contemporary art have expanded so much that somtimes we have a tendency to consider painting and sculpture to be outmoded media fot artistic expression. However, it is high time to demonstrate that it is not the medium which matters, but how it is used. Ra Hee Hong Lee Director, Samsung Museum of Modern Art

Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.

The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.

A monumental monograph: works (1964-1995), texts (around thirty since 1970), the most important solo and group shows since 1969.

Portrait of On Kawara by René Denizot.

A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.