Art & language

David Jablonowski's recent and early works.

A reflection on the problematic of temporality, from an analysis of On Kawara's practice, also revealing certain important aspects of Cesarco's working methods.

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

Jean Dupuy's anagrams, from the 1970's to the present day (artist's book): 160 series of works accompanied by the artist's notes, with texts by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Emmanuelle Lequeux.

Artist's book.

This first volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s.

This second volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present.

Artist' book (Andro Wekua's recent works).

Issue dedicated to John Baldessari.

A chamber music project on LP by the Italian composer, sound artist and performer, inspired by an African divination ritual.

Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.

Artist's book.

First monograph (work from 2009 to 2012), with three essays and an interview.

In this text, poet Jacques Sivan creates an imaginary planet populated by mortals, a mirror of our world through which he investigates the nature of language.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

New monograph.

The continuation and end of Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose, written in 1216 but unfinished, by artist and writer Bruno Di Rosa.

Parole #2 explores the relationship of “skin” to language.

Drawing and writing, drawing exhibitions, Paul Noble, François Bouillon, Emmanuelle Lainé, Franz Erhard Walther, Elizabeth Peyton, Sophie Lamm, Paul Sztulman, Pontormo, Albrecht Dürer, Giuseppe Penone, the Collection Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Florent Dubois, Sophie Bazin, Muzo, Markus Lüpertz, Anne Laure Sacriste and Lee Ranaldo, Alexandre Leger, Sophie Lamm...

Artist's book: Taroop & Glabel's ABC.

An illustrated anthology (almost all of the speeches given by the artist on the occasion of his exhibition openings over 30 years).

Artists' book.

Featuring: Nicolas Boillot, Laurent Buffet, Yann Ciret, Gilbert Descossy, Jean Dupuy, John Giorno, Bernard Heidsieck, Françoise Janicot, Olivier Leroi, Patrice Lerochereuil, Matthieu Messagier, Tierney Moira, Adrian Notz, Edgar Morin, Olivier Mosset, Phoebe Neville, Corinne Pencenat, Jeffrey Perkins, Georges Quasha, Alexandre Rolla, Joao Simoes, Evelyne Sutter, Louis Ucciani, Michel Vogel, Peter Vogel, Christian Xatrec...

Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).

A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.

A narrative divided in 28 chapters, each made up of one long sentence. A violent confrontation between the abstraction of the language and the subject dealing with pornography.

Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.

Artist's book.

Monograph based on two films by Keren Cytter.

Writings and interviews.

Second issue, around the problematics of voice and oralness.

This artist's book is an illustrated and disenchanted reflection on democracy and its imperfections. Using two different colors, the artist dissociates two layers of meanings—the text and the image—while maintaining a close dialectic.

Artist's book inspired by "Alice in Wonderland."

Artist's book inspired by "Alice in Wonderland", rendering the fantasies of childhood and the joys of gathering.

French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.

Limited edition, with 6 inserted original photo prints, numbered and signed by the artist.

One of the two box sets of the HYPER TROPHY project.

One of the two box sets of the HYPER TROPHY project.

A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).

A sound and visual construction between two static shots on the axis of a street lined with bungalows: the crossroads of a busy street, with trucks and cars; the main street of an average city in North America, the immersion of the camera into the highway flows...

A static shot of a railroad bridge with a suburban train in one way then another, evoking the positioning in space and the passage of time.

The camera explores a port area and progresses along the sand or gravel mounds, between two static shots on a double drawbridge downtown. A film about the juxtaposition, separation and collection of elements.

The camera follows the walls of a warehouse and pauses before each closed opening, producing a series of "paintings" that punctuate shots of the city, its organization and flow.

A sound, linguistic and visual composition unfolds from a meeting room located in the heights of a skyscraper at La Défense in Paris. A film about the inside/outside relationship, the built environment as the natural environment for men.

Three buildings beside water, a map of a North American city, the flow of a highway with distant hills in the background, a slow passage on a suspension bridge towards a business center: a film about the passage of time and displacement.

A few piano chords on warehouses shots where human presence is discreet. A film about economy, its organization and its laws, the prima of the structure on what animates it.

Alessandro de Francesco's poetic approach aims to redefine and surpass discursive obstacles born out of our cognition, our emotions, and the political and media systems.