Art & language

 
 
Marilou Thiébault - Une nouvelle vie
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A multi-voiced account of the life of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), both documented and fictionalized.
Alexandra Grant - Everything Belongs to the Cosmos
2025
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
X Artists' Books
forthcoming
Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is a catalog comprising 6 fold-out posters and a booklet that accompanies Alexandra Grant's exhibition with the same name that took place at the gallery carlier | gebauer in Berlin in 2024-2025.
Marianne Mispelaëre - Tu peux répéter ? - Écrire, parler, expérimenter les langues avec Marianne Mispelaëre
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
Following on from work carried out by artist Marianne Mispelaëre in schools, this book explores the diversity of languages that permeate our lives, as well as the political and social issues at stake.
Marie Gayet - Écritures transversales
2025
French edition
Caza d'Oro
Writing as a shifting space in which to embody the singular relationship that artists—and art critics—can have with words, texts and language.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
2025
English edition
Tonini Editore
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi -
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph.
Re-Materialization of Language - 1978-2022
2024
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
The first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, curated in 1978 by Mirella Bentivoglio within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia, and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists.
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Logorrhea is an artist book focusing on the written word in Jean-Michel Wicker's work. It is a large and lighter-than-air paperback, the author's third void.
Rene Ricard - Love Poems
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.
Bernhard Rüdiger - Horizon of Forms - The Living Languages of Contemporary Art
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
This book brings together Bernhard Rüdiger's theoretical texts on the questions of language and form in contemporary art, seen from the perspective of the possibility of thinking them within the paradigm of shock or awe.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
Alexandra Grant - Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
X Artists' Books
Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.
Ryan Gander - Artists at 5
2024
English edition
Mennour
currently out of stock
A book bringing together about 160 portraits of artists when they were "about" five years old.
Jan Jelinek - Social Engineering (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
Social Engineering brings together thirteen text fragments from so-called phishing emails. Using speech synthesis, they are spoken, sung, and/or transformed into abstract textures. The result is a 36-minute language and sound collage devoted to the dark forces of phishing.
Biting the Hand - Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
currently out of stock
Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.
Bea Schlingelhoff - The Crooked - Typefaces for Baseless Rumors
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This artist's book by Bea Schlingelhoff gathers together 366 capping phrases used for kōan practice.
Christophe Lemaitre - A letter
2024
French edition
Tombolo Presses
An adaptation of the eponymous Christophe Lemaitre's film: a hypothesis, that of language considered as a parasite for the bodies which give birth to it.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Benjamin Hirte - Modest Homes
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Agnès Thurnauer -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Agnès Thurnauer -
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Farkhondeh Shahroudi - Wir sind die feder in des schreibers hand, wohin wir gehen, ist uns nicht bekannt
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Persian)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.
Marcel Alocco - L\'avenir n\'a pas de nom - Tomes 1 & 2
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
A text by the painter, writer and poet, begun in 1959 as a student and finalized half a century later.
Margaret de Asbaje - Court traité-poème de métaphysique moniste
2023
French edition
Mix
A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
Marcel Alocco - Héritage obligé
2023
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
Two unpublished texts that demonstrate the extent of the writing work that Marcel Alocco has been producing for over half a century.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
2023
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
François Mangeol - À la recherche du bonheur
2023
no text
Christophe Daviet-Théry
François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).
Marc Buchy - Ka Kualmaku
2023
French edition
Florence Loewy
This artist's book is the achievement of the Ka Kualmaku project conducted in 2018 during a residency of Marc Buchy in Colombia, in Lugar A Dudas, during which the artist began to learn Namtrik, said to be a disappearing language. The book restores this learning as a Namtrik-French language guide.
Tony Lewis - Anthology 2014–2016
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Thirty-four original collage-poems by the Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis.
Jan Jelinek - Zwischen (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
25.50 17.50 €
A short version of a radio play devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, bringing together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures, from Marcel Duchamp to Lady Gaga.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, revealing the porosity between art and poetry.
Maurizio Nannucci - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
Maurizio Nannucci's "auto(biblio)biography" (artist's book).
Nayla Romanos Iliya - The Phoenician Alphabet
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
Publication dedicated to Lebanese artist Nayla Romanos Iliya's "Small Characters" sculptures, inspired by and named after each of the 22 letters of the Phoenician Alphabet.
David Douard - U Killed me First (Melody)
2022
English edition
various
Publication constituting a continuation of Melody, the installation created by David Douard for Sculpture Garden, acquired by the city of Geneva, and which was subsequently vandalized.
Anne-James Chaton - I have the solution for the planet
2022
texts in English and French
Daisy editions
The first publication dedicated to the visual work of writer and performer Anne-James Chaton.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Éric Alliez - Duchamp avec (et contre) Lacan - Essai de mutologie queer
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.
Kim Gordon - Chronicles - Vol.2
2022
no text
Nieves
Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.
Alessandro de Francesco - And Agglomerations, of Trees or E agglomerati, degli alberi o
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A bilingual text by Alessandro De Francesco that blurs the boundaries between art and poetry.
Liam Gillick - A Max De Vos
2022
English edition
MER. Books
A novel by Liam Gillick.
Scott Gibbons - Il Terzo Reich (vinyl LP)
2022
Xing
The score for Romeo Castellucci and Scott Gibbons' stage work.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Dirty Evidence
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Richly illustrated, this book provides for the first time a visual overview of Lawrence Abu Hamdan's works of more than a decade, and elaborates on a formal vocabulary characterized by the aesthetics of sound and language.
Alexandre Leger - Longtemps éphémère
2022
French edition
Roven - books
Alexandre Leger's drawings-poems.
Giovanni Di Domenico - Polvere di rabbia (vinyl LP)
2022
Kohlhaas
22.00 18.50 €
Giovanni Di Domenico adds another superb piece to his prolific discography with the first of his works to ever feature voice and language as foregrounding elements.
John Latham - Recueil de contradictions
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Dedicated to John Latham's heterogeneous and paradoxical practice, this book highlights the artist's contradictory relationship with knowledge and language, through a selection of translated texts and images of some of his projects, all articulated around a glossary.
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