Switzerland

 
 
Art Basel | Year 47
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
Art Basel's 2016 official annual publication.
Jean Willi - Steingesichter
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).
Claudia Comte - 40 x 40
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
(last copies available!)
This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - Continental Drift
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.
Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection.
Ingo Giezendanner - Bücherwald
2017
no text
Nieves
A large collection of drawings (nearly 500 pages) documenting the artist's trip from Zurich to Japan through Siberia—with a special focus on books and trees.
Francis Baudevin - The Guitar and Other Machines
2017
French edition
various
Series of collages based on guitar patterns found in album covers.
Yoan Mudry - Loops - The future is wild / To loop the loop
2017
French edition
Clinamen
This collective publication questions the literary strategies at stake in the work of visual artist Yoan Mudry.
 Kim Seob Boninsegni - Hwabyeong
2017
French edition
Clinamen
A three-part fiction relating the daily lives of characters at the beginning of our century: the artist alternates reality and fiction, developing themes at work in his visual practice. As usual, the author involves a series of contributors.
Baptiste Gaillard - Un domaine des corpuscules
2017
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
A collection of poems describing a post-human Earth. 2018 Swiss Literature Award winner.
Mathis Gasser - In the Museum 1 2 (3) - Regulators 1 2 n
2017
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Artist's book divided in two series of works elaborated from Gasser's own archives: an explosive combination of images drawn from art history, pop culture and current events, building up a retrofuturistic universe facing financial, ecological, religious and political distress.
Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection (also available in English).
Raffael Waldner - Salon
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.
Thomas Huber - Extase
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Artist's book containing a selection of 80 erotic drawings and watercolours taken from the 66 sketchbooks that the artist has used since 1972, and never previously published.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
Jean-Pierre Gorin - Letter to Jane
2017
English edition
various
currently out of stock
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
Jean-Pierre Gorin - Lettre à Jane
2017
French edition
various
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
Thomas Hirschhorn - Les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques
2017
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
currently out of stock
New Facsimile edition of a brochure published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine in 1995.
Livio Vacchini - Disegni / Dessins / Drawings
2017
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
This volume looks at a central aspect of Livio Vacchini's research: his drawings. The publication gives an overview of the Swiss architect's work with an unpublished selection of drawings—plans, cross sections, and facades. It also features an essay by architect Roberto Masiero.
Pauline Piguet - Dos Imperial
2017
French edition
ACME
Similar to a travel diary, sprinkled with tropes of paradisiacal holidays, Dos Imperial interweaves the work of an artist, Bruno Aeberli, a graphic designer, Pauline Piguet, and a writer, Simon Dubois.
Jean-Christophe Norman - Matières – Stoffe
2016
bilingual edition (German / French)
various
Issue of the Cahiers du Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel dedicated to French artist Jean-Christophe Norman with essays by Jean-Michel Espitallier, Patrice Joly, Frank Smith, Ulrich Weber, and an original work by Norman inspired by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt's library.
Stefan Banz - Aldo Walker – Logotyp - En gardant un œil sur Marcel Duchamp et William Copley
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
An analysis of the work of an unheralded artist both profound and captivating written by his friend, artist and curator Stefan Banz.
Partition(s) - Objet et concept des pratiques scéniques (20e et 21e siècles)
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The history of the emergence and appropriation of the score in extra-musical domains (theater, dance, performance).
Anton Bruhin -
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
Raphaële Bidault-Waddington - Semiospace - A Spaced Out Artistic Experiment
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
This publication is part of an artistic and performative project conceived by artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and critic Sylvain Menétrey. Part poetic neologism, part scientific concept, the semiospace, as a linguistic creation, seems to mirror Bidault-Waddington's practice—the creation of hybrid objects at once cognitive models borrowed from science, and exuberant fictions.
Arno Brandlhuber - Legislating Architecture Schweiz
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
Giacomo Bianchetti - Bilderberg 2015 - 63ème conférence Bilderberg – 11-14 juin 2015
2016
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A series of photographs taken in the margins of the 63rd Bilderberg conference, which brings together some of the most influential political and economic leaders of the Western world.
Yves Netzhammer - Concave Thoughts - 357 Digital Drawings
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An entry point into the Swiss artist's imagery through a collection of 357 digital drawings in black & white.
Andreas Tschersich - Peripher
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
Presence - A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.
Raphael Hefti - A) Negligence Causing a Fire
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).
Vidya Gastaldon - Les rescapés
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
New monograph.
Stadt auf Achse - Mit Kunst urbane Räume gestalten – Ein Handbuch
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
 Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei) - 11 mantras
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Angela Marzullo - Homeschooling
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Homeschooling (parental education) is at the center of the performance and video work by Angela Marzullo, who, in analyzing critical texts from the '60s and '70s, recreates them involving her two daughters as protagonists. The publication presents a decade of Marzullo's works, highlighting the evocative value and content of images and text.
Female Chic
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
Fabian Marti - Bilder 2005-2016
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
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