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Peter Schuyff - Sculptures / Beavers
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A series of wood carvings by Peter Schuyff, reproduced on a scale of 1:10, alongside a short sorry by Arthur Miller staging the relationship between man and beaver.
Olivier Debré - Norge - Un voyage en Norvège
2018
no text
Jannink - Wide Open
Facsimile edition of a 1971 small sketchbook by a major painter of the lyrical abstraction, made during one of his many travels in Norway.
Eric Fischl - If Art Could Talk
2018
English edition
Mousse
Acclaimed for his dark depiction of the American suburbs, painter Eric Fischl sometimes positions artworks within his compositions as symbolic elements. This thematic catalogue brings them together, including more than 120 painting reproductions, and an interview with the artist by Dallas Contemporary Museum director Peter Doroshenko.
Piotr Łakomy - 1211210
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the Polish visual artist, designed in close cooperation with graphic designer Krzysztof Pyda, and focusing mostly on Łakomy's sculptures and installations (texts by Jakub Bąk, Martha Kirszenbaum, and Chris Sharp).
Rebecka Tollens - Bright
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
This publication explores the fascinating world of Franco-Swedish artist Rebecka Tollens: Inspired by her own dreams, these lead pencil drawings conjure a troubled atmosphere intermingling themes of Nordic mysticism, sorority and childhood. The publication highlights a series devoted to the Sami people from the Far North.
Hamed Abdalla - Arabecedaire
2018
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabecedaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
Hamed Abdalla - Arabécédaire
2018
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabécédaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
Merlin Carpenter - “The Outside Can\'t Go Outside”
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary art theory following the financial crisis of 2007/8.
Olivier Mosset - Wheels
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.
Ahmed Cherkaoui - Entre modernité et enracinement
2018
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Reference monograph.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Jay DeFeo - The Ripple Effect
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring Sam Falls, Rachel Harrison, Wyatt Kahn, Ron Nagle, Gay Outlaw, Tobias Pils, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, and Oscar Tuazon.
Pascal Pinaud - Horizon mural - Dessins 1989-2017
2018
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Pascal Pinaud's drawings and paper works.
Anselm Kiefer - The Seven Heavenly Palaces
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication documenting the eponymous permanent installation by Kiefer at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. First created in 2004, the work features seven “tower sculptures,” now combined with five large-format paintings, made between 2009 and 2013. The book gathers essays, a conversation with the artist, an exhaustive photographic documentation, description of the installation, and a bio-bibliography.
Camille Bryen - L\'ouvre-boîte - Colloque abhumaniste
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Narrative essay developping the notion of abhumanism, a critical philosophy which questions the centrality of mankind in our relationship to the world. With illustrations by Camille Bryen and a foreword by Michel Giroud.
Sarah Wilson - Figurations ± 68 - Le monde visuel de la French Theory
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Jean Reubrez - Franz Radziwill, l\'imagier ambigu
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An in-depth and circumstantial study of the work of Franz Radziwill (1895-1983), a major and controversial representative of “magical realism” in painting.
Greg Parma Smith - My Ideas
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The private and personal side of a painter (first monograph / artist's book).
Anne-Lise Coste - Oil Paintings and Pastel Drawings
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nieves
A new series of oil paintings and pastel drawings, with vivid colors and a child-like spirit.
Felice Varini - Zap
2018
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Fiction
A crime novel in which the narrator chases a mysterious woman from Paris to Barcelona, via Basel and Bucharest. The text is accompanied by a series of photographs by Felice Varini taken from four walks in Paris, Rome, New York, and Krefeld.
Gerasimos Floratos - Soft Bone Journey
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting a recent series of works by the Greek American artist, which blends painting, sculpture, and photography. In his practice, Gerasimos Floratos plays with the idea of site-specificity, and is strongly inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography.
Paulo Nimer Pjota -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This first monograph on Paulo Nimer Pjota, profusely illustrated and collecting several essays and a long conversation between the Brazilian artist and Kiki Mazzucchelli, takes stock at Nimer Pjota's signature condensation of pictorial concerns and life lessons. His layered works, like modern, rough palimpsests, are testaments to the artist's collapsing of high with low, society and history with the personal and the marginal, often told through readymade details and objects that Nimer Pjota corrals in front of the wall pieces.
Paolo Gioli - Etruschi Polaroid 1984
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
Rafael Delacruz - Exploding Jezebel
2018
no text
Nieves
A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.
Quintessa Matranga - Toilet Paintings
2018
no text
Nieves
Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.
Bernard Leveneur - Ambroise Vollard - Un don singulier
2018
French edition
Frac Réunion
The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.
Peter Schuyff - The Woodwards - Lyrics
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Eccentricities
Known for his extravagant neo-surrealist paintings, the Dutchman emigrated to New York Peter Schuyff is also a guitarist and singer. Illustrated with drawings by Eliane Gerrits, this book brings together the lyrics of the folk and psychedelic songs of the band The Woodwards, which he forms with the English singer Stevie Guy.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Wade Guyton - Writings on Wade Guyton
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical perspective on Guyton's work.
Lee Yil - Dynamics of Expansion and Reduction - Selected Writings on Korean Contemporary Art
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This book, the first major publication in English devoted to the Korean critic and art historian Lee Yil (1932-1997), is a collection of texts on aesthetics, theory and history of art by the main observer of “Dansaekhwa”, or Korean monochrome. It also brings together essays and monographic prefaces that gave wide coverage to artists who had been active from the end of the Korean war up until the mid-1990s.
Samuel F. B. Morse - Conférences sur l\'Affinité de la Peinture avec le reste des Beaux-Arts - précédé par Jean-Philippe Antoine : Pour qui peindre et parler ? Un art de la conférence
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Conférences sur l'affinité de la peinture avec le reste des beaux-arts (“Conferences on the affinity of painting with other fine arts”) shed a new light on the career of the inventor of the famous Morse code, best known at his time as one of America's most promising painters of his generation.
Sylvain Croci-Torti - SCT-PP
2018
French edition
ACME
Artist's book exploring the notion of rigor in experimentation through the constraints of the grid and structure.
Ugo Rondinone - Kiss Now Kill Later
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Landscape Paintings.
Ugo Rondinone - New Horizon
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Horizon Paintings.
Ugo Rondinone - Pure Sunshine
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The complete Sun Paintings.
Amy Sillman - The All-Over
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of American artist Amy Sillman's most recent bodies of work, including diagrams, drawings, animations, sculpture, and large-scale abstractions that combine painting with digital prints on canvas, shown serially in panoramic installations. Layering and dynamic movement pervades these works, whose concerns shift between the tragic-comic and the vexed histories and techniques of painting.
Riccardo Baruzzi - Del disegno disposto alla pittura
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
(last copies available!)
The first monograph on Riccardo Baruzzi, containing a selection of images of works made from 2010 to the present and writings by Alessandro Rabottini, Davide Ferri and Luca Bertolo. A perfect introduction to the italian artist's practice, which explores the notion of the unfinished and the provisional by way of an aesthetic investigation of drawing through the body of the painting.
Stéphane Bordarier - 65 tableaux
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
The monochrome paintings of Stéphane Bordarier are the result of a research based on the quality of the pictorial surface and the founding role of color. This monograph offers an overview of recent works, followed by two interviews with the artist.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
Julio Le Parc - Bifurcations
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, this monograph features historical works by Julio Le Parc, as well as his most recent paintings, showing an undeniable interest in the study of light and movement. The publication also contains a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview by Jerôme Sans and a chronology written by the artist.
Luca Bertolo - The Beautiful Words
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a rich critical overview of the work of Luca Bertolo from 2012 to 2017, with essays by Craig Burnett and Dieter Roelstraete and an interview with Antonio Grulli.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Early Retirement
2017
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets - Textes, entretiens, conférences, lettres (10 volumes box set)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
236.00 168.00 €
Rémy Zaugg's complete writings in 10 volumes in a box set (new edition).
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
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