First monograph dedicated to the glamorous and saturated paintings, sculptures and collages of the French artist who works the way a drag queen makes herself up.
Artist's book: a deconstruction of four monumental charcoal drawings, details of which are reproduced at the scale 1/1 and whose book offers a new reading.
Paintings by Christopher Le Brun / poems by 7 English authors (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Turner, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, David Gascoyne).
This catalogue brings together a series of photographs by painter Suzanne Strassmann in which she deals with the specific codes of the art world and plays with the ambiguity of the interactions between artworks, art professionals, and the public.
Focused on a series of exhibitions entitled The Opening—marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings—the book documents all six events via text and snapshot-like images.
Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have designed a photographic and pictorial artist's book which focuses on Berlin cemeteries. In a combination of photography and painting they consider the uniqueness of the park-like cemeteries in Berlin, which are used as leisure and recreational areas. Bachmann and Banz turn these places of melancholy and calm into an aesthetic experience by “making emotions visible”.
New expanded and subtitled edition: nearly four-hour program consisting of twelve films, five documentaries, unpublished documents as well as original video works by the artist.
As in mythological tales, the characters in Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings are mortals, animals, angels and demons, all coexisting in a lascivious Pandemonium. Vivid colors and rough strokes render well the grotesque essence of these bestial & erotic scenes whose symbolism could be compared to Frida Kahlo's surrealistic language.
Celebrating ten years of artistic career, this catalogue reproduces a series of miniature replicas of mostly huge-format paintings by Norbert Bisky, repainted by the artist himself.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
An insight into Subodh Gupta's expansive, multifarious practice, featuring an interview between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an essay Martin Herbert.
A set of texts written by Salomone according to his artistic protocol: an unclassifiable literary work which extends a visual production, as a specific dimension of artistic representation.
