Art & sexuality / erotism

Monographic study dedicated to director, video artist and photographer Clarisse Hahn. Edited by Nicole Brenez, the publication gathers writings encompassing the variety of her work, from contemporary art to cinema, guerilla groups, and eroticism; conversations with Clarisse Hahn, artists, and art historians; and a series of reproductions of her artworks, photographs, photograms, and videograms.

The 2018 edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.

Catalogue accompanying a selection of works by the German artist showcased at Castello di Rivoli. Weisz combines references to Renaissance art, psychoanalysis, memories and the female body, creating complex and poetic installations, inspired by a text by poet Paul Celan.

First English edition of a colossal volume on Pasolini's cinematographic oeuvre, first published in the 1980s in Italy: 2.000 film stills ranged under the categories of “bodies” and “places”, with analysis and a compilation of texts by Pasolini. A Pasolinian publication in terms of both content and form, as well as an indispensable tool for research. The book contains also the original text in Italian.

Spring / summer issue of the French magazine dedicated to contemporary art, photography, and fashion, edited by Guillaume de Sardes: “writers and photographers”—a special feature with Maxime Du Camp, Claude Simon, Hervé Guibert, Denis Roche, Jacques Henric, and Alain Fleischer; artistic journeys in China; portraits and interviews, photo creations…

Limited edition, accompanied with an exclusive Toilet Paper satin scarf.

This catalogue discusses the symbolic of the red thread in the work of the Chilean artist and poet. The publication includes a special documentation on quipus—large-scale immersive installations of thread, wool, and yarn—poetic texts and narratives by Vicuña, and two essays that shed light on a ritualistic symbolism relating to the function of textile, language, and menstrual blood.

At the heart of this collection of short writings are three provocative texts extracted from important artworks by Rosen, offered here as genre-defying literature at the intersection between reality and fiction, speculative narrative and historical-political critique, humor and eroticism.

Artist's book focusing on Victor Man's series of paintings first exhibited as part of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and later developed for a solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B, Berlin. The publication includes essays by poet and translator Bogdan Ghiu, curator Mihnea Mircan, and literary critic Laura Pavel.

This catalogue brings together works and archival material from Lassnig's New York days. Along with her paintings, watercolors and drawings, the publication gathers documenation on animated films she created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group. It also includes a text by Elisabeth Bronfen, “A Mysterious Point of Certainty: Maria Lassnig's Body-Awareness Painting.”

The second issue of the erotic journal, featuring Camille Bellot, Olivier Blanckart, Carole Deltenre, Wim Delvoye, Roberto Ferri, Paolo Giardi, Georgia Grace Gibson, Aurelie De Heinzelin, Florian Hetz, Jean-Kristau, Julien Langendorff, Nico Mazza, Myriam Mechita, Andrew Moncrief, Odd Nerdrum, David Nissen, Valérie Oka, Eric Pougeau, Denis Protéor, Andrés Rangel, Jean Rustin, Anthony Stark, Betty Tompkins, Courtney Trouble, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille (each copy includes a postcard, a poster, and a handcrafted wax seal created after a seal ring by Carole Deltenre on which a vulva was molded).

I Want reviews the eponymous duo's double-projection film installation examining issues of gender, sexuality and performativity—and inspired by the words of punk poetess Kathy Acker and convicted whistle-blower Chelsea Manning.

This book explores a range of works made between 2002 and 2016 from Nicola Tyson's sketchbook pages to large graphite drawings and giant, life-sized ink drawings.

A collection of 70 penis drawings inspired by the borough of Manhattan. Made in one day in 1978, this early work forms a singular, ecclectic and playful guided tour of the city—including drawings and series such as Phallic buildings form 7th Ave., Drawing Penises in front of Tiffanys, Penis with doors – Carnegie music hall, The best place to draw penises, Self portrait at home…

Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!

An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.

Paul Kooiker, Cendres Lavy, Ash Conrad, Lise Stoufflet, Hannibal Volkoff, Cath Orain, Jean-Luc Verna, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, Luce de Tetis, Julien Salaud, Clara Citron, Mirka Lugosi, Julian Feeld, Apollonia Saintclair, Amanda Wieczorek.

Paloma Lanna narrates the first year of her brand Paloma Wool during which she has collaborated with some of Barcelona's most relevant contemporary artists and photographers.

Catalogue.

A limited edition publication of 1000 copies, with Toilet Paper watch included!

An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.

Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola collects screenshots of a desktop-performance made by Petra Cortright where virtual erotic dancers perform on various backgrounds. As a result, the pages of the book look like continuous digital collages; synthetic and painterly landscapes populated by the strippers posing for the viewer.

Second volume of the Toilet Paper book, gathering all of the images published in the last six issues of the magazine, also including a significant portion of previously unpublished images.

First monograph / artist's book.

With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.

Three iconic series of photographs by Juergen Teller.

300 drawing by Portuguese artist Gonçalo Pena.

A Collector's Edition of 500 copies numbered and authorized by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. On the back cover of the Collector's Edition are printed the signatures of the authors.

New monograph, with texts by Quinn Latimer and an extensive interview with the artist by Adam Szymczyk, also including a catalogue raisonné of Auder's video works.

Artist's book.

Artist's book.

Jacopo Benassi's collection of eroticized slippers (artist's edition—10 booklets in a handmade wood box set).

A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.

The Diamond limited edition of 1000 copies includes the book Toilet Paper + a special Toilet Paper magazine issue. The front cover of the book has a lenticular image and the magazine features an unseen combination of images of Toilet Paper (limited edition of 1000 copies).

Toilet Paper in book form: this deluxe volume gathers all of the images published in the first five issues of the magazine, re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan; it also includes a significant portion of previously unpublished images.

Artist Stéphane Blanquet re-draws a collection of (mostly) vintage pornographic pictures. These disturbing diptychs constitute an essential catalog of sexual fantasies and oddities.

Luciano Castelli's self-portraits.

Richard Hawkins' first book of fiction: eight jubilatory and decadent short stories.

The series of drawings from “Le lac sombre” (“The Dark Lake”) were inspired by an episode from La Peste Brune (The Brown Plague), a written account of Germany in the Thirties by french writer, theorist and activist Daniel Guérin. There he described his encounter with the Wild Boys, a group from the “Wandervögel” movement, a libertarian youth community which crossed Germany and its history from 1896 to 1936.

Symmetrical portraits of female characters and unidentified creatures cut in black paper.

Comprehensive monograph.

Variations on the theme of masculine desire: three short comic stories from Ebisu's off-the-wall universe.

“Romance” mûre is a dark cartoon influenced by various elements of Japanese folklore (supernatural creatures, samurai), J-Horror and Otaku countercultures, art brut and collage. The strips are invaded by coral and plant forms and depict a world of young schoolgirls struggling with monsters, rotten or decapitated bodies, ghosts...