Art & sexuality / erotism

Art & sex special issue.

Christelle Enault's last series: Voodoo priestesses cover their face with cartoon masks and lead ritual ceremonies where female creatures and priapic shapes perform erotic gestures in a poisonous and seminal environment. Yet, the delicate pencil line of the Parisian artist delivers a puzzling feeling of softness.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

A never-before-published selection of Paul-Armand Gette's lectures given between 1972 and 2015.

By creasing photographs from the golden age of porn magazine, Patrick Weidmann dismantles their deep-rooted conservative values and reconstructs an underlying aesthetics, an underside of desire.

This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.

A running-headline tale featuring, in order of appearance: Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, Michael Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Jenna Young, Victoria Beckham, Sheila Weller, Mark Seal, Eleanor Schiralli, Bernard Madoff, Rich Cohen, Jessica Simpson, Lance Armstrong, Ed Ruscha, Sam Ricci, Chris Reinhardt, Suri Cruise, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mickey Rourke, Pierre Hardy, Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec, J.J. Abrams, Jill Stempel, John Anderton...

Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.

Disembodied girls and sadistic imagery: the nightmarish and disturbing universe of The Pit. Perfect, graphically speaking.

A book-film.

Reference monograph: an extensive survey of Patrick Bernatchez's drawings, sculptures, sound installations and films.

A previously unpublished series of photographs taken in 1989 in Arles and Paris, retouched by Boris Mikhailov 26 years later, offering a fresh perspective on his work.

Drawings.

Michael Tedja's Aquaholism is an exhibition catalogue, a published oeuvre, an artistic treatise, a poetry collection, a visual essay, an artist's book. It is a polyphonic collage of text and image. More than seventeen years of artistic output unfold between the first and last pages. With its thoroughness, density, and associative power, the book embodies Tedja's artistic essence: voluminous, interrelated, and in continuous motion.

PARIS LA #13 or CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV has been especially created by the artists Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, and Oscar Tuazon.

An intertextual and interdisciplinary approach to exploring some contemporary cultural resonances with respect to gender and sexuality.

A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities, with an original artwork signed by Ricciotti.

Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this edition (conceived by Alfredo Jaar) features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionnary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.

Reference monograph.

Marc Brunier-Mestas' engravings portray a dark universe where death lurks on each scenes. Skeletons lead a macabre dance in a gloomy yet erotic and sometimes jocular atmosphere.

The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.

Artist's book.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense.

A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense (available in English edition).

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).

First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.

Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.

The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...

An art book by Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), a collection of exotic and erotic images, including a 20 mn music on CD (music by Andrew Liles, narration by Maude Swift).

A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.

A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.

Featuring: a tribute to Frank Zappa (unpublished interview and illustrations by Cal Schenkel), Christian Marclay by Anaïs Prosaïc, The Wild Classical Music Ensemble, Anaïs Nony, Guerilla Gardening, Zdenek Kosek, self-hypnosis, Elizabeth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle's ecosexual activism, primatologist Frans de Waal...

La Tranchée Racine's new special issue (12 pages / 12 authors).

After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.

Facsimile reprint of the long-unavailable and much sought-after 1974 artist's book by Robert Overby (1935-1993), one of the most fascinating figures of the 1970s Californian art scene.

Guy Reid's singular lime wood sculptures.

A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art.

A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art (limited edition accompanied by an original and unique collage, signed).

A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.

An exploration of the human back through a series of black and white images by photographer Nikita, accompanied by texts or poetic montages.

The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.

A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.

Costes's first novel.

"Une indécence française" (A French Indecency) retraces the first twelve years of "Nova Sodomia". The complete universe of His Excellency Otto: dictature of fun and indecence.

The King Size graphic newspaper's seventh's issue. With a back cover illustration by Pyon. Four out of four September issues.

A poetic text investigating the writing of desire.

Special issue dedicated to the question of the presence and treatment of sexuality in contemporary creation.

La Tranchée Racine's sixth issue. With a back cover illustration by Amandine Urruty. Third out of four September issues.