Artists' books

A set of photographs of the back covers of Jonathan Monk's books presented turned over. A play of transparency reveals the captions written on the back of each page.

A book-exhibition that brings together the practice of three artists from the contemporary publishing scene around the figure of Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), an American artist whose works of concrete poetry enter into graphic and conceptual resonance with the three artists' own publications.

An artist's book paying tribute to Angoulême and comics, to Joy Division and the Situationist International at the same time.

Autobiography by Alessandro Pessoli is a mix of drawings and written words created specifically for the publication. The handwritten texts belong from some of the songs the artist is used to listen while at work.

Facsimile edition of Stephanie Oursler's 1975 artist's book.

Set of 8 postcards proposing each one the pattern (to cut oneself) of one of the 8 dice present in Robert Filliou's source installation Eins, Un, One.

Autobiography by Koo Jeong A is a collection of images chosen by the artist via Periscope. Each of them represents a work created by Koo Jeong A during her career.

A limited edition artist's book, Mnēmē presents the work of the Tunisian artist Nidhal Chamekh through thirty-four independent drawings collected in a luxurious boxed portfolio.

Artist's book.

Portraits in 22 tableaux based on the works and words of Bertolt & George Brecht.

Window / Spacetime is a portrait of the city of Berlin. A variety of shops that have names of countries and cities refer to different faraway places and invite the reader on an imaginary journey. Dis- and misplacing distant memories of the past triggers a yearning sense of other destinations within the everyday scenarios.

A series of over 1200 close-ups of advertising posters in Zürich photographed by Anna Stüdeli.

This edition, printed in serigraphy, delivers the reworked transcription of a recorded interview between musicians Jacques Demierre and Louis Schild, in which the notion of surveying and measurement is examined, among other things and in a conversational manner (with a musical transcription and a contribution from the playwright Michèle Pralong).

Music Book is a 64-page facsimile artist's book by Sarah Cain, comprising a series of colorful abstractions painted directly over a collection of vintage sheet music.

Can we recognize a book by its silhouette? (an artist's book about artists' books).

Twenty-two drawings made during four months by the Mexican artist from his own observations of the evolution of a forest landscape written on a single day.

Tal R's collages from his eclectic collection of images and objects (artist's book).

A poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks.

First comprehensive monograph on Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (book printed by the artist himself with a specific technique making each copy a unique object).

The human body as a new territory for comics.

Λ (Lambda) is an artist book by Micol Assaël which collects a series of 72 drawings made by the artist starting in 2011 as a reflection on light.

Artist's book.

Four artist's posters.

Artist's book.

A protean project embracing a reflection around the photographic medium and modes of understanding the world (artist's book).

On the dark side of the street, you come along fascinating creatures. At first sight, they could seem scarying, but the drawings of Lison Ferné show them more soft and gentle. Meet twenty of them in this book in limited edition.

A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.

Rafael Pérez' sketchbook presented in this publication was created in his studio in December 1992 in Dielsdorf, Zurich, as a Christmas present for his wife Ursula. Only minor alterations to the pagination, size and dedication have been made.

The “catalogue dé-raisonné” of all the printed matter produced by tThe independent publishing house Beau Geste Press, that federated visual poets, neo-Dadaists and international artists affiliated with the Fluxus movement from 1971 to 1976.

An anonymous and parasite book that disrupts the rules that codify publishing.

An observation on evolution of material plasticity, a story about plastic whose native land is Mesoamerica (artists' book).

Artist's book.

Oracular Transmissions weaves together three of the most recent collaborative projects Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby have completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017).

Pigs have taken over, but humans are still very useful to their film industry.

Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).

A new artist's book that goes far beyond the mere reproduction of photographs and masterfully reflects huber.huber's artistic practices in the special medium of the book.

Gathering found visual material, this publication retraces the story of an artistic failure: that of a joint project by Federico Pepe and his father Antonio, a cabinet of curiosities featuring latex sculptures of fetuses looking like Mickey Mouse.

This artist's book / leporello gathers reproductions of artworks from the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig, drawing out re­s­o­nances be­tween the dis­parate works.