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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.
Hiraki Sawa -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
Kota Ezawa - Odessa Staircase Redux
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
An artist's book revisiting the well-known film sequence from Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin."
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (book / CD)
2010
English edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
currently out of stock
Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”
Ryoji Ikeda - Dataphonics (book / CD)
2010
French edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
Conceived as an homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfège de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics is a project that focuses on the relationship between the data of sound and the sound of data. The work deploys frequencies at the very edges of human hearing, sounds that, as Ryoji Ikeda explains, “the listener becomes aware of only upon their disappearance.”
Anders Edström - Safari
2010
English edition
Nieves
A series of photographs as close to material, its density variations and plays of light on its surface.
On Kawara - One Million Years (Box set)
2010
Mathieu Copeland editions
This edition of 4 audio CDs in a wooden case comprises the reading of On Kawara's One Million Years [Past and Future], with Gemma Saunders as the female voice reading all even numbers and Leo Chadburn as the male voice reading all odd numbers, covering 969 611 BC to 967 811 BC & 33 411 AD to 34 450 AD.
Misaki Kawai - Blueberry Express
2009
no text
Nieves
A collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai, featuring the larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years.
Olaf Holzapfel - Nakano Sakaue - Verhandelte Zeichen
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nakano Sakaue documents a series of photographs realized by Olaf Holzapfel during a residency in Tokyo. The artist has depicted a kind of residue from the city's buildings: neon lights, images, and street signs, which are featured as so many promises for orientation.
Daido Moriyama - Far from Home
2008
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mennour
A face-to-face between two of the most significant figures in contemporary photography.
Tadashi Kawamata - Workshop (book / DVD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
An interview and a video documentary around a collective project directed by Kawamata: a construction of short-lived architectures from 5000 wooden crates.
Tadashi Kawamata - Memory in Progress (book / DVD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French) / English and French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
25.00 18.00 €
Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Boxset
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Box gathering the two volumes of the catalogue Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, published for the world tour of the exhibition by On Kawara.
Tadashi Kawamata - Works & Process (2 DVDs)
2005
original version (subtitles in English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
Various documentary approaches of Tadashi Kawamata's work, unpublished films of the artist and archives.
Tadashi Kawamata - Works & Process (box set)
2005
original version (subtitles in English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
Numbered box set (1-100), with two silkscreens of original drawings by Japanese artist.
Yama - Swiss Pavilion Expo 2005 – Aichi, Japan
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
The Swiss Pavilion at World Expo 2005 in Aichi (Japan) in words and images.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel.
Kyoichi Tsuzuki - Voulez-vous coucher avec nous ce soir ?
2003
no text
Cneai
This artist's book brings together photographic images of Japanese pleasure houses and a collection of erotic sculptures.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Kawara's Date paintings, telegrams and books from the One Million Years series.
Martin Parr - Japonais endormis
1998
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book.
Performances From Asia
1998
bilingual edition (English / French)
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
Conversation between six artists from six Asian countries.
Takashi Homma - Tokyo Olympia
2023
no text
Nieves
sold out
A large-format board-book sequel to Homma's seminal photobook Tokyo Suburbia.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
sold out
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Daisuke Ichiba - Coulour
2023
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.
Lei Saito - Existential Cuisine
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Is-Land
sold out
The culinary performances and installations of the Japanese artist based in Paris (book printed in fluorescent pantones).
Takashi Homma - Tokyo and my Daughter
2021
no text
Nieves
sold out
The complete edition of Takashi Homma's acclaimed homage.
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