Painting

 
 
Fredrik Værslev - Fredrik Værslev as I Imagine Him
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This comprehensive monograph offers an overview of the artist's oeuvre from the last decade. It brings together essays which explore Værslev's relationship to the history of painting and suburban architecture and culture, as well as his artistic process.
Tom Wesselmann - La Promesse du Bonheur
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue gives a critical overview of a key American Pop artist focusing on specific themes within his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze, and strategies of indeterminacy. Includes essays by Chris Sharp and Sabrina Tarasoff.
Yvan Salomone - Déluge & retrait
2018
French edition
Frac Bretagne
Produced as a follow-up to three previous publications edited by Mamco between 2010 and 2017, this monograph is a compilation of found images associated with Yvan Salomone's own photographs. It also features an interview with the artist and new essays examining his practice.
Julien des Monstiers -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Christophe Gaillard Gallery
First monograph: focusing on French painter's Julien des Monstiers most recent work, this publication features a rich iconography with reproductions and exhibition views. An introductory text by Frédéric Valabrègue invites us into the artist's studio, and the interview by Alain Berland gives a formidable insight into des Monstiers' practice.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Pulp Paintings
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
This catalogue focuses on a series of paintings made of discarded euro banknotes. These imposing fields of colour produced by the synthesis of the original banknotes are part of a greater investigation that seeks to remobilise devalued material. With a foreword by Jean Capeille.
Walter Pfeiffer - Bildrausch – Drawings 1966-2018
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Focusing on a lesser known aspect of Walter Pfeiffer's practice, this monograph explores the Swiss photographer's graphic works throughout the decades: large-scale hyper-realistic pencil drawings, drawings in China ink, colored pencils and watercolors, characterized by a joyful sensuality that emanates from his portraits of friends and his floral still lifes.
Heimo Zobernig - Farben / Alphabet
2018
English edition
IF Publications
This publication brings together two early works by Heimo Zobernig, Farben and Alphabet.
Rémy Zaugg - Après Rémy Zaugg /  Avant Rémy Zaugg
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Rémy Zaugg's early work.
Seta Manoukian - Painting in Levitation
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back at Manoukian's pictorial work, focusing on the 70s and 80s periods of her practice. It includes an essay by Gregory Buchakjian, a chronology by Aline Manoukian, and an interview with the artist by Kristine Khouri.
Hans Hartung - Les années de guerre
2018
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.
Anne Van der Linden - Zoo
2018
French edition
White Rabbit Prod - Pool of Tears
A collection of paintings by Anne Van Der Linden, exhibited at Galerie Corinne Bonnet in 2018, published in Pool Of Tears, a series of small format artist's books.
Louis Michel Eilshemius - Six Musical Moods (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.
Courbet, épistolier – 24 lettres inédites + La correspondance de Courbet – 20 ans après (2 livres)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
32.00 24.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of two volumes dedicated to correspondence of Gustave Courbet.
La correspondance de Courbet - 20 ans après
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
A review of the epistolary correspondence of Gustave Courbet, by an ethnologist, a writer, a psychoanalyst, a hunter, a philosopher, a gastroenterologist, a psychiatrist, two curators, and six art historians.
Sam Falls -
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Andro Wekua -
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Peter Schuyff - Sculptures / Beavers
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A series of wood carvings by Peter Schuyff, reproduced on a scale of 1:10, alongside a short sorry by Arthur Miller staging the relationship between man and beaver.
Olivier Debré - Norge - Un voyage en Norvège
2018
no text
Jannink - Wide Open
Facsimile edition of a 1971 small sketchbook by a major painter of the lyrical abstraction, made during one of his many travels in Norway.
Eric Fischl - If Art Could Talk
2018
English edition
Mousse
Acclaimed for his dark depiction of the American suburbs, painter Eric Fischl sometimes positions artworks within his compositions as symbolic elements. This thematic catalogue brings them together, including more than 120 painting reproductions, and an interview with the artist by Dallas Contemporary Museum director Peter Doroshenko.
Piotr Łakomy - 1211210
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the Polish visual artist, designed in close cooperation with graphic designer Krzysztof Pyda, and focusing mostly on Łakomy's sculptures and installations (texts by Jakub Bąk, Martha Kirszenbaum, and Chris Sharp).
Rebecka Tollens - Bright
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
This publication explores the fascinating world of Franco-Swedish artist Rebecka Tollens: Inspired by her own dreams, these lead pencil drawings conjure a troubled atmosphere intermingling themes of Nordic mysticism, sorority and childhood. The publication highlights a series devoted to the Sami people from the Far North.
Hamed Abdalla - Arabecedaire
2018
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
currently out of stock
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabecedaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
Hamed Abdalla - Arabécédaire
2018
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabécédaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice.
Isabelle Graw - The Love of Painting - Genealogy of a Success Medium
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
American critic Isabelle Graw conducts an innovative genealogical study on the success of painting as a medium. Keeping a close eye on painting's fourteenth century theoretical foundations, Graw analyses the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers. It also includes conversations with artists who confront their vision with that of the author.
Merlin Carpenter - “The Outside Can\'t Go Outside”
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
Why has there been so much interest in “surplus value” in recent years? In “The Outside Can't Go Outside”, artist Merlin Carpenter considers how this term has been inserted into contemporary art theory following the financial crisis of 2007/8.
Olivier Mosset - Wheels
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.
Ahmed Cherkaoui - Entre modernité et enracinement
2018
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Reference monograph.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Jay DeFeo - The Ripple Effect
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring Sam Falls, Rachel Harrison, Wyatt Kahn, Ron Nagle, Gay Outlaw, Tobias Pils, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, and Oscar Tuazon.
Pascal Pinaud - Horizon mural - Dessins 1989-2017
2018
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Pascal Pinaud's drawings and paper works.
Anselm Kiefer - The Seven Heavenly Palaces
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication documenting the eponymous permanent installation by Kiefer at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan. First created in 2004, the work features seven “tower sculptures,” now combined with five large-format paintings, made between 2009 and 2013. The book gathers essays, a conversation with the artist, an exhaustive photographic documentation, description of the installation, and a bio-bibliography.
Camille Bryen - L\'ouvre-boîte - Colloque abhumaniste
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Narrative essay developping the notion of abhumanism, a critical philosophy which questions the centrality of mankind in our relationship to the world. With illustrations by Camille Bryen and a foreword by Michel Giroud.
Sarah Wilson - Figurations ± 68 - Le monde visuel de la French Theory
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Jean Reubrez - Franz Radziwill, l\'imagier ambigu
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An in-depth and circumstantial study of the work of Franz Radziwill (1895-1983), a major and controversial representative of “magical realism” in painting.
Greg Parma Smith - My Ideas
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The private and personal side of a painter (first monograph / artist's book).
Anne-Lise Coste - Oil Paintings and Pastel Drawings
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nieves
A new series of oil paintings and pastel drawings, with vivid colors and a child-like spirit.
Felice Varini - Zap
2018
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Fiction
A crime novel in which the narrator chases a mysterious woman from Paris to Barcelona, via Basel and Bucharest. The text is accompanied by a series of photographs by Felice Varini taken from four walks in Paris, Rome, New York, and Krefeld.
Gerasimos Floratos - Soft Bone Journey
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting a recent series of works by the Greek American artist, which blends painting, sculpture, and photography. In his practice, Gerasimos Floratos plays with the idea of site-specificity, and is strongly inspired by the Situationist concept of psychogeography.
Paulo Nimer Pjota -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This first monograph on Paulo Nimer Pjota, profusely illustrated and collecting several essays and a long conversation between the Brazilian artist and Kiki Mazzucchelli, takes stock at Nimer Pjota's signature condensation of pictorial concerns and life lessons. His layered works, like modern, rough palimpsests, are testaments to the artist's collapsing of high with low, society and history with the personal and the marginal, often told through readymade details and objects that Nimer Pjota corrals in front of the wall pieces.
Paolo Gioli - Etruschi Polaroid 1984
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
Rafael Delacruz - Exploding Jezebel
2018
no text
Nieves
A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.
Quintessa Matranga - Toilet Paintings
2018
no text
Nieves
Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.
Bernard Leveneur - Ambroise Vollard - Un don singulier
2018
French edition
Frac Réunion
The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.
Peter Schuyff - The Woodwards - Lyrics
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Eccentricities
Known for his extravagant neo-surrealist paintings, the Dutchman emigrated to New York Peter Schuyff is also a guitarist and singer. Illustrated with drawings by Eliane Gerrits, this book brings together the lyrics of the folk and psychedelic songs of the band The Woodwards, which he forms with the English singer Stevie Guy.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Wade Guyton - Writings on Wade Guyton
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical perspective on Guyton's work.
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