Abstract painting

 
 
Julio Le Parc - Bifurcations
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, this monograph features historical works by Julio Le Parc, as well as his most recent paintings, showing an undeniable interest in the study of light and movement. The publication also contains a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, an interview by Jerôme Sans and a chronology written by the artist.
Luca Bertolo - The Beautiful Words
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph offers a rich critical overview of the work of Luca Bertolo from 2012 to 2017, with essays by Craig Burnett and Dieter Roelstraete and an interview with Antonio Grulli.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Blake Rayne - Tense and Spaced Out - Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos and the Ecology of Misery
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue spanning the last ten years of works by the American painter whose practice revolves around linguistic issues and reflexive material practices in art. The publication includes texts by artists, curators and scholars, documentation of the exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum by a group of local high-school students and a magazine dedicated to Rayne's 2013 book-object Almanac.
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.
Michael Wilkinson - In Reverse
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive and focused reader on Wilkinson's output and documents the Glasgow-based artist's practice spanning from 2015 to 2010, including six exhibitions and works produced within that time period, in reversed chronological order.
Claudia Comte -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First survey monograph: hovering between painting, sculpture, and installation, Comte's works are based on references to popular culture—including cartoons as well as vernacular handicrafts—nature, heraldic symbols, and art historical movements (Op art, Pop art, Neo-Geo, Concrete art).
Wyatt Kahn -
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This monograph dedicated to Wyatt Kahn encompasses his painting production from 2011 to 2017, and introduces his recent exploration of photography.
Maurizio Donzelli - La linea del tutto
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monographic catalogue: a selection from the italian artist's most recent works—acrylic drawings, watercolours, and the Mirrors series.
Noël Dolla - Spatial Restructurings (1969-2016)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
(last copies available!)
Publication dedicated to Noël Dolla's pictorial experiments in nature: this lesser-known side to the artist's work offers a unique insight today on the painter's research on the medium. The book features a chronological documentation exploring in detail these 13 “Spatial Restructurings”, along with texts by Fabrice Flahutez and Rachel Stella.
Yve-Alain Bois - La peinture comme modèle
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism
Rafał Bujnowski - Maj / May 2066
2017
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
Catalogue dedicated to the Polish painter and conceptual artist, featuring his most recent works, an essay by Maria Brewińska, and an interview. The publication reviews some of Bujnowski's key concepts, such as painting as a physical object and its concomitant deconstruction, the centrality of time and the question of futurology, and the randomness of existence.
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.
Francis Baudevin - The Guitar and Other Machines
2017
French edition
various
Series of collages based on guitar patterns found in album covers.
Matthias Dornfeld - D647
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue gives an overview of the works by German painter Matthias Dornfeld, who depicts traditional subjects of classical paintings—landscapes, portraits, still lifes—with a style inherited from naïve expressive painting.
Gebran Tarazi - Twelve Seasons
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
This monograph offers a sweeping vision of the work of Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi, whose paintings combine geometrical abstraction with oriental identity. The publication gathers reproductions of paintings, multidisciplinary projects, a selection of writings by the artist—log books, novel excerpts, correspondences—interviews, and critical texts.
Allan McCollum - Works - 1968-1977
2017
English edition
various
This catalogue brings together a selection of early paintings by the american artist, accompanied by an essay illustrated with archival images.
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
Pascal Pinaud - Magnetic Abstraction
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
Gathering Pascal Pinaud's most recent works, this monograph features numerous exhibition views highlighting the artist's scenographic qualities and his relationship with design, furnishing and architecture. This edition includes two essays and a long interview.
Daniel Buren - Works & Process - Volume 2 (2 DVD)
2017
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
Second DVD in the “Works & Process” series to be dedicated to Daniel Buren's work, this new collection of films offers various documentary approaches of this major artist's work in a 3-hour program.
Olivier Nottellet - 1999-2017 (2 vol.)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French, text in Spanish)
various
Two-volume monograph including a retrospective publication and a sketchbook. This edition highlights Nottellet's double activity as an illustrator and an installation artist, and features four texts offering various approaches of the artist's work as well as an understanding of his evolution throughout a career that started in the 1990s.
Michel Parmentier - Décembre 1965 - 20 novembre 1999 - Une rétrospective
2016
French edition
Loevenbruck
Reference monograph (also available in English).
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Stephen Felton - No Drama
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
An introduction to the art of Stephen Felton, with an essay by Jill Gasparina, “On the uselessness of sophisticated discourse,” as a guiding thread to better understand a work relying on simplicity and narratives.
Bernard Piffaretti - 1980-2016 - Reasonable catalog
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The first major monograph on Piffaretti: a journey through contemporary painting.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Asger Jorn - The Open Hide
2016
English edition
Petzel
The Open Hide offers a concise overview of the diverse accomplishments of Danish artist Asger Jorn. The volume comprises over 75 images of Jorn's work, each with complete provenance, exhibition and literature history. A comprehensive biography of the artist is also included, along with photographs and other archival material.
Fredrik Værslev - All Around Amateur
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new artist publication coming in two different versions, revolving around Værslev's new series of “sunset” paintings.
John McCracken -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Ivan Picelj - The Concrete Utopia - Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies – 1961-1973
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
Matteo Callegari -
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication explores the painting practice of New York-based, Italian-born artist Matteo Callegari.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings 16
2016
English edition
various
A series of paintings by Swiss artist Emil Michael Klein.
Han Mook - Deux peintres coréens modernistes à Paris
2016
bilingual edition (Korean / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Tracing the Parisian exile of Korean modernists painters Lee Ungno and Han Mook, this catalogue highlights the work and life of two artists who built an innovative work at the crossroads of Western and Eastern traditions.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
Fredrik Værslev - Reality Bites
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reality Bites is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Fredrik Værslev, analyzed through rich visual content and texts by Matias Faldbakken, Alberto Salvadori and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, as well as a conversation between the artist and Josh Smith.
Giorgio Griffa -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
New monograph, with thirty emblematic paintings, a text by the artist, and an essay by Francesco Manacorda.
Daniel Buren - Libretto - Daniel Buren : une fresque (box set)
2016
French edition
MER. B&L
The journal/catalogue conceived by Daniel Buren for his retrospective at BOZAR.
Sue Williams -
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
In over 40 years, Sue Williams' art has continuously explored and challenged the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender, and culture. This first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the American artist follows her work from the early 1980s to her most recent paintings.
John Armleder - Out! (Out!)
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
(last copies available!)
Armleder's new series of works inspired by large scale anatomical models from the 19th & 20th centuries.
Jonathan Binet - Serpent
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
A series of photographs by Martin Widmer, taken in Jonathan Binet's exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel. Widmer's over-exposure disrupts the traditional contours of the artwork and questions the notions of authority and subject.
David Lemaire - Alain Huck - La Symétrie du saule / The Symmetry of Willow
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.
Claude Rutault - L\'Inventaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.
Liam Gillick - From Nineteen Ninety A to Nineteen Ninety D
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.
Daniel Buren - D\'une arche aux autres - Travail in situ, Casablanca
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A documentation on the development and reception of Daniel Buren's monumental in situ work in the gardens of the Sacred Heart Church of Casablanca.
Alex Hubbard - Eat Your Friends
2015
English edition
DoPe Press
Alex Hubbard's first comprehensive monograph, Eat Your Friends is also an artist's book.
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