Art & animality

 
 
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMCO - Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Cendres Lavy - Un génie, une génisse
2011
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
First monograph / artist's book.
 Huang Yong Ping - Wu Zei
2011
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Mennour
Luxurious monograph based on Huang Yong Ping's monumental installation at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, documenting a series of recent exhibitions, with an essay by Jessica Morgan and the transcription of a round table with many personalities around the artist.
Jean-Claude Ruggirello -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
28.00 14.00 €
First monograph (video installations, mechanical, electronic, light and sound devices, living or naturalized animals, sculptures, performances, photographs and drawings...), with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
Alessandra Eramo - Come ho imparato a volare (How I\'ve learnt to fly) (vinyl LP)
2011
Corvo Records
18.00 14.00 €
Italian-German artist Ezramo (Alessandra Eramo) recorded the sounds of larvae during their transformation into flies. Trough rough, sub-real field recordings, she explores, interprets and lyrically re-invents the concept of metamorphosis.
Alain Séchas - Journal-poster - Limited edition
2011
French edition
Jannink - 127 Series
Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.
Adel Abdessemed - Puissance d\'agir
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
40.00 25.00 €
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Rui Cardoso Martins - Estômago Animal
2011
Portuguese edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
(last copies available!)
When contemporary fiction meets art.
Alain Séchas - Journal-poster
2011
French edition
Jannink - 127 Series
A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.
Dominique Lestel - Journey to the End of the Species
2010
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.
Dominique Lestel - Voyage au bout de l\'espèce
2010
French edition
Dis Voir - Figures
Part philosophical anthology and part science fiction, this illustrated volume tackles the mind-boggling phenomenon of post-humanism. Journey to the End of the Species offers various proposals to actually create successors to the human race, establishing a set of resources--literary, artistic and political--to initiate thinking about a previously inconceivable future beyond humanity as we know it.
Marnie Weber -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.
Lewis H. Morgan - Le castor américain et ses ouvrages
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.
Eduardo Kac - Natural History of the Enigma and other works
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Artist and poet Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive works on internet and for his practice of bio art. This catalogue dedicated to this singular artist features contributions by an art critic (Eleonor Heartney), a leader of the contemporary American novel (Steve Tomasula) and a French sociologist and philosopher (Pierre -Henri Jeudy). An interview with Eduardo Kac by Hugues Marchal concludes the volume.
Pierre Senges - The Adventures of Percival - A phylogenetic tale
2009
English edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
The infinite monkey theorem states that a chimpanzee randomly typing on a typewriter will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare. Pierre Sanges carries the metaphor further with this ethological tale illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy.
Pierre Senges - Les aventures de Percival - Un conte  phylogénétique
2009
French edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
The infinite monkey theorem states that a chimpanzee randomly typing on a typewriter will sooner or later end up composing a sonnet by Shakespeare. Pierre Senges carries the metaphor further with this ethological tale illustrated by Nicolas de Crécy.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.
Ann Craven - Shadows Moon and Abstract Lies
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski -
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Jakub Julian Ziółkowski -
2009
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph (available in English edition).
 Claudia & Julia Müller - Habitus vs. Habitat - Primaten
2009
German edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Michel Blazy - Safari Urbain - La vie des plantes d\'intérieur (DVD)
2009
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
25.00 10.00 €
Michel Blazy's Urban Safari, discovering extraordinary houseplants (and their owners).
N\'importe quoi
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
La Salle de bains
A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.
Paul Panhuysen - The Game & the Rules (+ CD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.
Régis Tosetti - L\'Art de la Chasse
2009
French edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The Art of Hunting (artist's book by young Swiss designer).
Liam Gillick - How are you going to behave? A kitchen cat speaks
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liam Gillick's project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009.
Klaus Weber - Secession
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.
 Pii - La Famille du Chasseur
2009
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Catalogue / artist's book: disguised in a post-modern hunter, Pii invites us to think about drift feeding practices and the place of nature in the contemporary world.
Alexandre Joly - States of Non-Ordinary Reality
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Aparté
15.00 10.00 €
First monograph.
Ludovic Burel - Page Sucker - Lobster
2009
no text
it: editions
The third issue of Page Sucker—the 32-page magazine featuring photographs collected over the Internet via a single keyword. This issue's keyword is “lobster”.
Horst Bredekamp - Les coraux de Darwin - Premiers modèles de l\'évolution et tradition de l\'histoire naturelle
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
 Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson - Peaceable Kingdom
2008
no text
Nieves
The first book of collaborative work by the two American artists, partners in life and art.
Laure Tixier - My Cities
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
(last copies available!)
20.00 14.00 €
Artists' book: a selection of watercolors on paper.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Album - On/around the work of Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone and Christine Streuli
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material around the work of four artists who represent Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennial 2007.
The Freak Show
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
La Salle de bains
Catalogue of the exhibition inspired of American "Freak Show", presenting around 50 contortionist, giant, hairy or Siamese works.
Gloria Friedmann - Ultraviolet
2007
French edition
various
8.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue.
Alain Séchas - Nuits blanches
2007
French edition
various
8.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue.
Cryptozoology - Out of Time Place Scale
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
The quest for unknown, rumored, or hidden animals.
Klaus Weber - Kranke Fuchs (vinyl EP)
2004
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
(last copies available!)
35.00 20.00 €
An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).
Gloria Friedmann - Play-Back  d\'Eden - Monologue d\'une artiste face à un primate naturalisé – Limited edition
2003
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Gloria Friedmann writes about the main questions raised by its work: nature, animal kingdom and ecology; work and war, the origins of mankind and art. Limited edition with a felt-tip drawing printed on a restaurant tablecloth paper and enhanced by hand.
Gloria Friedmann - Play-Back  d\'Eden - Monologue d\'une artiste face à un primate naturalisé
2003
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Gloria Friedmann writes about the main questions raised by its work: nature, animal kingdom and ecology; work and war, the origins of mankind and art.
Alain Séchas - Café noir
2003
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
48 cats drawings.
Lee Bul - Monsters
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph.
Christiane Geoffroy - Hommage à Grandville
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
10.00 5.00 €
An artistic reflexion on science and images.
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