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Pierre Soulages - Soulages in Japan
2017
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Perrotin
A well documented bilingual (English / Japanese) publication presenting ten recent paintings by the artist, and highlighting the special relationship between Pierre Soulages and Japan, where his work was exhibited very early in his career and quickly enjoyed significant recognition. A unique catalogue, published on the occasion of the opening of Perrotin Tokyo.
 Novi_sad - Wound_Burner (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Audio project based on field recordings which took place in various locations in New York, U.S.A, Gotland, Sweden, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil and the Greek countryside. Featuring soprano Irini Kyriakidou, this electronic immersive piece is fully part of Novi_sad's visual approach of sound.
Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.
Keiichi Tanaami - Paradise of eyes
2017
no text
United Dead Artists
Set in a grotesque and colorful decorum, the new kaleidoscopic visions of Keiichi Tanaami intertwine the obsessional patterns of the great Japanese master—eyes, military aircraft, eroticized flesh, and pop culture icons.
Rei Naito - Transphère - Émotions de croire
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Third publication in the framework of the “Transphère” Exhibition cycle, this catalogue documents a work by Rei Naito, a Japanese artist who has built an international reputation with her minimalist and conceptual creations. The installation Émotions de croire (The emotion of belief) is a moving reflection on the atomic bomb, and a place of mourning and hope.
Kurihara Nanako - La chose la plus étrangère au monde - Analyse critique du Butō de Hijikata Tatsumi
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Délashiné!
A critical analysis of Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh dance.
Bruno Fernandès - Vocations de l\'ombre - Haino Keiji – Une autre voix/voie du rock (+ CD)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
First monograph dedicated to guitarist and singer Keiji Haino—the cursed angel of the Japanese underground rock scene, with a previously unpublished CD (Haino solo & Fushitsusha).
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Keiji Haino - The Miracles Of Only One Thing (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.
Tadashi Kawamata - Under the Water
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph: a photographic documentation on the site-specific works Under the Water at the Centre Pompidou Metz and gallery Kamel Mennour, completed with visual archives covering over thirty years of practice (1979-2015), and a focus on the artist's roof installations from 1995 to 2015.
 Atelier Bow-Wow - Transphère - La Maison Magique
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Catalogue of a project designed for Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris as part of the “Transphere” Exhibition cycle. Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Fiuza Faustino have long explored the issue of the habitat, inventing innovative and often provocative “machinery / habitats”. Here they have come together to create a “magical environment”.
Daito Manabe - Transphère - Fertile Landscapes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi's first exhibition in France. On this occasion they created an installation using LED lights and smartphones—a new work combining the real and the virtual, the seen and the unseen. This volume also gives an overall comprehension of Manabe and Ishibashi's practice: together they merge art and technology in projects that are at the cutting edge of innovation.
 Ryoichi Kurokawa - Sirens (book + CD)
2016
English edition
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
Five immersive audiovisual works that combine digitally generated visuals by Kurokawa and sound explorations by Thanasis Kaproulias (working under the moniker Novi_sad). An impressive body of work which explores the aesthetics of data and the visual representation of economic crisis.
Masaki Fujihata -
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Anarchive
The groundbreaking work of Masaki Fujihata presented as an immersive intermedia experience through augmented reality technology (retrospective monograph under the form of a ring binder, with a dedicated AR application).
Felicity D. Scott - Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs - Critical Spatial Practice 07
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
Carlo Mollino - Giappone 1970
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
Michael Lucken - Nakai Masakazu - Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
An introduction to the work of a pioneer in media, cinema and sport criticism in Japan, whose thinking deeply marked the counter-culture movements of the 60's.
Wataru Kasahara - Psychic Mucus
2015
no text
United Dead Artists
This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.
Masanao Hirayama - Find Me
2015
no text
Nieves
Sport shows & jubilating fans drawn with minimalism (artist's book).
Joji Koyama - Plassein
2015
no text
Toupée
25.00 15.00 €
A series of short visual stories designed with refinement by Japanese artist Koyama, whose subtle's pencil stroke, narrative use of geometric forms and application to render textures contributed to build a most fascinating artist's book.
Augustin Berque - Formes empreintes, formes matrices, Asie orientale
2015
French edition
Franciscopolis
Geographer, orientalist and philosopher Augustin Berque exposes the eastern foundation of his reflection on mesology, redefining the being (and the human subject) in its relation to the environment.
Yoshinori Mizutani - Taxi Dirty Books
2014
no text
Boabooks
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Ayami Awazuhara - A Heart of a Stone
2014
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book.
Tadashi Kawamata - Scheiterturm (book/ DVD)
2014
bilingual edition (German / French), German / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
The collaborative construction process of the “wood log tower” designed by Tadashi Kawamata in Ittingen Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, developed with the architect Christopher Scheidegger.
Tadashi Kawamata - Workshop + Collective Folie +  Scheiterturm (box set 3 books / DVDs)
2014
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
54.00 45.00 €
Box set bringing together three books / DVDs devoted to Tadashi Kawamata's wood constructions: Scheiterturm (2014), Collective Folie (2014), and Workshop (2008).
Tomoaki Suzuki -
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
23.00 10.00 €
This first monograph devoted to the work of the Japanese artist Tomoaki Suzuki approaches the artist's sculptural work in all its distinctive aspects and numerous details. These are put into perspective by two essays and an interview, at a time when urban signs are suffering from immediate ageing, marked by “whatever singularity” in the age of social networks.
Wataru Kasahara - Haritsuke
2014
no text
United Dead Artists
(last copies available!)
A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.
Tadashi Kawamata - Collective Folie (book/ DVD)
2014
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
The collaborative construction and deconstruction process of the tower designed by Tadashi Kawamata for the Parc de la Villette in Paris.
Alejandro Cesarco - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Landscape of Time
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A reflection on the problematic of temporality, from an analysis of On Kawara's practice, also revealing certain important aspects of Cesarco's working methods.
Bruno Fernandès - Pornologie vs capitalisme – Le groupe de happening Zero Jigen - Japon 1960-1972
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
First monograph in a Western language on the subversive and radical Japanese avant-garde group Zero Jigen.
Daïchi Saïto - Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
currently out of stock
Part essay, part autobiography, the first book by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto offers a reflection on the artist's life, career and practice. With a foreword by André Habib, professor of film studies at the University of Montreal and a specialist in experimental cinema.
Susumu Mukai - Animas Report & Animas Report: Fragments (Supplement)
2013
no text
Nieves
The Animas Report series, including a supplement booklet.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Peep-Hole Sheet - Letters From Japan
2013
texts in English, Greek, French
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A series of letters written by Christodoulos Panayiotou during a stay in Japan.
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book: Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents.
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011 - Limited edition
2013
no text
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book (Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents), with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Takesada Matsutani - A Matrix
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Aki Goto - Reunion
2013
no text
Nieves
A series of portraitures of arbitrarily selected people drawn with a single stroke of a ballpoint pen.
Tadashi Kawamata - Tree Huts
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New revised edition. Kawamata's main in situ installations all over the world, a complete documentation on the Carton Worshop, Tree Huts and Field Works projects, with numerous illustrations and three essays.
Tadashi Kawamata - Entretiens
2013
French edition
Editions Lutanie
Five interviews with Tadashi Kawamata.
Keiichi Tanaami - No More War
2013
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.
Daisuke Ichiba - Romance mûre
2013
no text
United Dead Artists
“Romance” mûre is a dark cartoon influenced by various elements of Japanese folklore (supernatural creatures, samurai), J-Horror and Otaku countercultures, art brut and collage. The strips are invaded by coral and plant forms and depict a world of young schoolgirls struggling with monsters, rotten or decapitated bodies, ghosts...
Koki Tanaka - Abstract speaking sharing uncertainty and collective acts
2013
English edition
Nero
The catalogue of Koki Tanaka's exhibition for the Japan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Masanao Hirayama - 4333
2012
no text
Nieves
26 drawings by the Japanese artist and illustrator.
Fujiko Nakaya - Fog (+ 2 DVD)
2012
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Anarchive
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the Japanese artist's fog sculptures: a luxurious box set gathering an annotated catalogue of Nakaya's Fog Works created for public spaces all over the world (as well as her video works and paintings), a video DVD and an interactive DVD-ROM.
Architecture and Time
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
Contributions by architects, philosophers and artists on the theme of time and architecture (conceptualized temporality, temporality in Japan, consideration of time in the architectural projects, new temporalities of public space...).
 Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani - Spelling Dystopia
2012
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Alain Séchas - Journal-poster - Limited edition
2011
French edition
Jannink - 127 Series
Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.
Alain Séchas - Journal-poster
2011
French edition
Jannink - 127 Series
A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.
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