Painting

 
 
Sara Vitacca - Michelangelismes - La réception de Michel-Ange entre mythe, image et création (1875-1914)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An exploration of the artistic myth of Michelangelo, which questions the multiple and contradictory uses of the past and the notions of reception, filiation and tradition that are revealed.
Harutaka Mochizuki - Eugène (book + mini CD)
2022
French edition
Lenka lente
An essay by Guillaume Belhomme on the singularly modern work of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), accompanied by a piece by Japanese saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki, inspired by the master's paintings.
Petrus De Man - Ajar
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. B&L
The first monographic volume on the graphic work of Belgian artist Petrus De Man.
Walter Grab - Walter Grab (1927-1989) - Werkkatalog
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Julien Audebert -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the French mixed media artist's work, engaged with historical and found imagery.
Pietro Roccasalva - Chi è che ride
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 
Vincent Corpet - Tarot game - Cards by Vincent Corpet
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
Tarot deck of 78 cards drawn by Vincent Corpet from a series of paintings made in 2010.
Joan Mitchell - Témoignages et confidences
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
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.
Lubaina Himid -
2022
French edition
various
Reference publication dedicated to the practice of Lubaina Himid, one of the leading figures of British Black Art since the 1980s.
Alice Neel - Transatlantique
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
At the invitation of Fabienne Dumont, seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984).
Liam Gillick - A Max De Vos
2022
English edition
MER. B&L
A novel by Liam Gillick.
Koen van den Broek - Firminy
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
This catalogue features an exclusive selection of works created by renowned Belgian painter Koen van den Broek in France, a series on paper based on the architecture of Le Corbusier (Firminy).
Kazuhiro Hori - The Art of Kazuhiro Hori
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
This book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Kazuhiro Hori. Through a selection of his most emblematic paintings, it offers an introduction to the oppressive universe of the Japanese artist, populated by anemic teenagers and evil stuffed animals.
Enrico Baj - Home Sweet Home
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Catalogue gathering the series of works realized around the furniture by two artists of different generations but having in common a same refusal of the authority, the paintings of Enrico Baj produced at the beginning of the years 1960 meeting the new sculptures of Martin Kersels.
Peter Stämpfli - Fast and Furious - 1969-1975
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Radicants
A journey through the painted work of the Israeli artist, writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher and feminist theorist, through a set of reproductions and texts by Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon and Bracha L. Ettinger herself.
Frédéric Cousinié - Paysage du paysage - Nicolas Poussin, Claude Le Lorrain, Sébastien Bourdon
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The various dimensions of the landscape—mental, cultural and ideological, real and pictorial—in the emblematic works of Poussin, Le Lorrain, Bourdon and their contemporaries of the 17th century.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
Collection of recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
Sedje Hémon - Emotion of Spirits
2022
English edition
Archive Books
A panorama of the multifaceted and transversal production of the Dutch-Jewish painter and composer Sedje Hémon (1923-2011), with fifteen essays.
William Scott -
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Covering the past thirty years of William Scott's practice, this monograph offers the largest comprehensive selection of paintings, drawings, masks and architectural models, as well as an unique insight on his creative and transformative approach.
Selina Trepp - Dirty Drawings
2022
no text
Nieves
Selina Trepp's "dirty drawings".
Elif Saydam - Two Cents
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Turkish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Vincent Corpet - DesMesures
2022
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A retrospective of the "retinal" painter's work, since the early 1980s.
You can go anywhere - The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50 (box set)
2022
English edition
various
A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.
Rene Ricard - God with Revolver
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Radicants
A journey through the painted work of the Israeli artist, writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher and feminist theorist, through a set of reproductions and texts by Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon and Bracha L. Ettinger herself.
Praneet Soi - Urban Kitsch
2022
English edition
Reliable Copy
Urban Kitsch, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalisation of the Indian economy.
Nathalie du Pasquier - RO-SÉ - A Book as a Bridge
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A hybrid monograph/artist book of Nathalie Du Pasquier's work.
Till Rabus - Paintings - 2011-2021
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.
Nicola Samorì - Lucìe
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Neglected, abandoned, forgotten women: a series portraits, mostly female, constitutes the fulcrum of this book on Lucìe, the project by Nicola Samorì exhibited at Mart in Rovereto.
Christophe Robe -
2022
French edition
The Drawer - Books
First monograph.
Barry McGee - Fuzz Gathering
2022
English edition
Perrotin
(last copies available!)
This zine gathers several photos, collages and drawings of Barry Mc Gee. He created a unique visual language, composed of geometrical patterns and recurring symbols.
Prunella Clough - A small thing edgily
2022
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Exhibition catalogue with twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough (1919–1999), focusing on the artist's late-career departure from the industrial figuration for which she was known into a wry, quietly influential approach to abstraction.
Kenny Scharf - MOODZ
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Variations on the face: downtown legend Kenny Scharf's permutational exploration of character.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Sillon
2022
French edition
various
A "story-poem", forming one of the parts of a project by Jean-Guy Coulange that also includes two radio plays and an exhibition.
Tomoo Gokita - Get Down
2022
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
This richly illustrated volume offers the occasion to discover Tomoo Gokita's latest body of work, featuring his newest large-scale paintings and a number of never-before-seen works made under lockdown during the pandemic.
Tyra Tingleff - Of Course I\'m Not Sorry
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A colorful and lively journey through Tyra Tingleff's artistic practice.
Josef Herzog - Untitled, 1964-1998
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Luxurious retrospective monograph of the Swiss painter (1939-1998): 250 works on paper (ink, pencil, pen and watercolor drawings) covering more than three decades of exploration of the graphic potential of the line.
Klodin Erb - Orlando
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Lush monograph dedicated to the series "Orlando" inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel: more than 200 portraits in which the Swiss painter explores gender roles and identity as well a her own identity as an artist, and the temporality of art history.
Loïc Raguénès - The Room of the Octopus
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
Asger Jorn - Musique phénoménale (2 CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.
Ernst Caramelle - 2/5
2022
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Ramsès Younan - The Share of Sand
2022
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan (1913-1966), a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.
Shirley Jaffe - Transatlantique
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
At the invitation of Frédéric Paul, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic cast an eye on the work of American abstract painter Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016).
Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée - Licences libres
2022
French edition
various
An exploration of the complex relationship between contemporary pictorial practices and their digital environment, examining in particular the idea of license and the strategies of appropriation pushed to the limit by unlimited access to digital resources.
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