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Stéphane Vigny - Plaire
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
AMAC
Stéphane Vigny's first monograph, conceived as an object with several levels of reading, as well as the sculptures of the artist.
Emmanuel Hocquard - La poésie mode d\'emploi
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume focuses on all of Emmanuel Hocquard's activities, in order to highlight his importance, and to situate him in a history of contemporary poetry in which he was one of the main protagonists.
Julien Blaine - La cinquième feuille - Aux sources de l\'écrire et du dire
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Michèle Métail - Mono-multi-logues - Hors-textes & Publications orales (1973-2019)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973.
Michèle Métail - Mono-multi-logues - Hors-textes & Publications orales (1973-2019) – Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains a signed collage.
Brigitte Gilardet - Paroles de commissaires - Histoires. Institutions. Pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A survey of the history of temporary exhibitions in France, through a series of interviews with 38 curators.
Matali Crasset - The Drawing Centre - Les trognes
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – The Drawing Centre
Matali Crasset's drawings sketchbooks.
Thomas Canto - Still Lifes of Spacetime
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
First monograph.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Bruissons
2020
French edition
various
A village, its people, nine characters, some children, a forest. Three seasons : winter, lockdown an spring. Bruissons is the tale of a motionless journey, slightly disrupted. An exhibition – pictures, sounds. And a book.
Patrick Drevet - Quand la ville se tait - Chronique d\'une sidération, mars-juin 2020
2020
French edition
various
The “chronicle of a sideration” written during the lockdown between March and June 2020, accompanied by a textual contribution by Julien Coupat et alii.
Cécile Bart - 6 x Cécile Bart (DVD)
2020
Frac Franche-Comté
Six films around six exhibitions by Cécile Bart, closer to the aesthetics of an artist's film than a documentary, introducing the viewer to the proximity of the works.
Charles Pennequin - Le Martien / Allo maman (+ CD)
2020
French edition
Lenka lente
Charles Pennequin is an unconventional poet who tells us here the sidereal aggression of a Martian who has not yet cut the cord. On the CD contained in the book, he interprets his text three times: twice in the company of the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, and another time alone, but with a megaphone.
Stéphane Blanquet - Dans les têtes de Stéphane Blanquet
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
The catalogue of Stéphane Blanquet's evolving exhibition in the whole space of the Halle Saint-Pierre, Parisian temple of art brut and outsider art: a vast retrospective in 1.9 kg of images (drawings, photographs, tapestries, sculptures), with also the works of invited artists: Keiichi Tanaami, Bruno Richard, Samplerman, Jan Švankmajer, Dr. Karayom, etc.
Grace Seri - Sans Grace
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
Sans Grace is the book by two actresses, one from Geneva, the other based in Paris. It takes up the first improvisational exercises that they carried out before conceiving the stage diptych Sans Grace / Avec Grace, on tour in Switzerland and Belgium.
Dominique Putz - Les figures architectoniques - La construction logique de la forme architecturale
2020
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Architectural shape is the interface where form and meaning meet and communicate. In this perspective the research addresses the decoding of the shape of buildings, cities and landscapes.
Pierre Budet - Nasty Little Thing
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A series of drawings by Pierre Budet produced daily in Rennes from March 17 to May 11, 2020 during the confinement period imposed on the French population due to the pandemic (covid-19).
Paul Pouvreau - Alphabet
2020
French edition
Lendroit éditions
A photographic alphabet.
Valérian Goalec - Elements–03 - From Their Desk
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
currently out of stock
Artist's book.
Sandra Martagex - Désir
2020
no text
White Rabbit Prod - Pool of Tears
A collection of drawings by Sandra Martagex published in Pool Of Tears, a series of small format artist's books.
Quentin Rollet - Mettent une ambiance de malade ! (CD)
2020
ReQords
Quentin Rollet lays his mini tape synthesizer and saxophones on drum tracks recorded by Kim Giani in 2015, that is to say in the world before confinement. A humorous and energetic project, realized in a period of global boredom.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Fordlândia
2020
bilingual edition (Portuguese / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An artistic project carried out around Fordlândia—a town built from 1928 onwards by Henry Ford in Amazonia on the banks of the Tapajòs to intensively exploit the rubber tree needed to manufacture tyres, which, following the failure of the project, became a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage of uncertain statu. With twenty international artists and researchers, in collaboration with Fotoativa, a Brazilian collective from Belém.
Julien Blaine - 2019
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Le grand dépotoir
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In 2020, Julien Blaine, born in 1942, inventories (and offers) what remains in an artist's studio at the end of a lifetime of creation. Le grand dépotoir brings together essays, letters and reflections on his vast poetic enterprise since its beginnings.
Marco Boubille - Ordre aléatoire des images
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Marco Boubille makes speak the images of Photomaton that he picks up in the streets and collects, in a long serial poem.
Dominique Cerf - Il y a quelqu\'un là-dedans
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Drawing book, with an introductory text by Liliane Giraudon and a feminist manifesto by the artist.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 1
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Fragments of the total poetry of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
99 photo-poems by the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Fragments of the total poetry and photo-poems of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance. The limted edition gathers the two volumes (Episode 1 and 2), numbered from 1 to 20, with an original signed artwork inserted in each of them, constituting a dyptic.
Sarah Kéryna - Le reste c\'est la suite
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Henri Atlan - Life as it goes - A conversation with Henri Atlan
2020
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A journey through the life and way of thinking of the French intellectual, medical biologist, philosopher and writer.
Gilles Coudert - Quand l\'art s\'invite au domaine - Chaumont-sur-Loire (DVD)
2020
original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
This film by Gilles Coudert, narrated by Charles Berling, depicts the dialogue between contemporary art and heritage fostered by the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre d'Arts et de Nature, which encompasses the château and its contemporary sculpture park.
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Kentia
2020
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Between an artist's book, an essay and a catalogue, this publication explores the notion of “installation” in the appropriation strategy developed by the now fictional artist Ludovic Chemarin©, through the conceptual figure of the Kentia palm.
Gisèle Vienne - Gisèle Vienne - Plateaux fantasmatiques
2020
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
An essay on the singular universe of the director, scenographer, choreographer, puppeteer and visual artist Gisèle Vienne.
Kassel Jaeger - Swamps / Things (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Shelter Press - Records
Kassel Jaeger's first solo LP with Shelter Press—a remarkably intimate and forward-thinking aural balm, bristling with complex beauty.
Pierre Leguillon - The Museum of Mistakes
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to Pierre Leguillon's Museum of Mistakes: a traveling exhibition gathering a collection of mass culture artifacts and craft objects, questioning with humor and subversivity the mechanisms of today's visual culture.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Artist's book.
Hervé Zénouda - Micrologies N°1 (vinyl LP)
2020
Optical Sound
The new project of Hervé Zenouda (Stinky Toys): a sophisticated and rustling electronic music.
Patrice Carré - Loin hop
2020
French edition
Tombolo Presses
First monograph.
Rosalie Bribes - Du Zénith au Nadir
2020
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
In her third poetic collection, Rosalie Bribes deepens the themes tackled in the two previous volumes: criticism of consumer society, illusions, pretences; search for a truth that can give meaning to human existence.
Christophe Brunnquell - >°GuΣ
2020
no text
The Drawer - Books
A collaboration between Christophe Brunnquell (Purple art director) and Grégoire Alexandre (photographer) who recompose fashion imagery by dressing their models with images taken from the archives of Vogue Paris, thus creating new ambiguous icons.
Élise Parré - La base spatiale d\'Hammaguir - Traversée culturelle dans les archives de l\'Espace #1
2020
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
Michel Beretti, author, Jérôme Lamy, sociologist, and Élise Parré, artist, joined in a yearlong research project initiated by the Observatoire de l'Espace (the cultural laboratory of the French Space Agency) around the birth of the French space technology and its first spaceport in Hammaguir, Algeria.
Germaine Dulac - What is cinema?
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
The first published edition of Germaine Dulac's What is Cinema?, almost 75 years after its creation, illuminates the vital role of this pioneer of the 1920s French avant-garde, as an innovator of modern cinematic thought, who was reflecting, early on, in a sustained and analytical way about what cinema is.
Nicole Brenez - Nous sommes d’accord avec tout ce qui a lutté et lutte encore depuis le début du monde - Introduction au cinéma lettriste
2020
French edition
Light Cone
A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.
Martin Barré - Transatlantique
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Six American artists share their invaluable perspectives on the decisive work of Martin Barré, a major figure in French Abstraction of the late 20th century.
François Huglo - Les intimes - Volume 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
The second volume of François Huglo's literary portraits: du Bellay and Borer, Zénon and Valéry, Borges and Beckett, Leibniz, Proust and Redon, Kafka, Barthes and Derrida, Baudelaire and the oenologist Émile Peynaud, Bory and Novalis...
Alain Buffard - Good Boy
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Printed books
This reference book devoted to the figure and work of the choreographer Alain Buffard (1960-2013) brings together rich testimonies, extensive iconography and unpublished archival documents.
Hans Hartung - Hans Hartung et l\'abstraction - « Réalité autre, mais réalité quand même »
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.
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