Art & travel / displacement / exile / migration / nomadism

 
 
Ettore Favini - Arrivederci
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Arrivederci recalls the artist's personal journey in Sardinia to explore textile craftsmanship. Favini narrates the stories of each piece of fabric he gathered and used for his new body of work—from its origin to the exhibition display. The publication is enriched with photographic documentation and texts by curators and stylist Antonio Marras.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Sunset Boulevard
2016
English edition
Nero
This artist's book presents a series of polaroids taken from inside a moving car's trunk portraying a dream-like sunbathed Los Angeles landscape, or indeed, an image that is now firmly imprinted in the collective imagination—asphalt, cars and palm trees silhouetted against expansive skies.
Emily Jacir - Translatio
2016
English edition
Nero
Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, this volume illustrates the movement of objects, images, people and places between Palestine and Italy.
Suzanne Hetzel - 7 saisons en Camargue
2016
French edition
Analogues - Monographs
A notebook illustrated with photographs documenting an installation project inspired by relationships built by the artist with the local people from French region the Camargue between July 2013 and December 2015.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
 Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin - Je suis du bord
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Documenting a video installation addressing the consequences of historical sea travel.
Champlitte Jicaltepec/San Rafael
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Dedicated to the long-lasting ties between Mexico and France, this survey catalogue's common thread is the foundation of a Fourierist-inspired community in Jicaltepec in the 19th century. The historical event interacts throughout the volume with the works of artists questioning the notions of travel, exile, relationships and utopia.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Shirana Shahbazi's photo-project Tehran North is a subjective road movie captured from a car driving through the Iranian capital at night, offering a black and white kaleidoscopic vision of Tehran's urban landscape (artist's book).
Rada Iveković - Réfugié-e-s - Les jetables
2016
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
Philosopher and feminist writer Rada Iveković examines the current refugee crisis in Europe, and call for the reception of the migrants.
Guan Xiao - Prévisions météo
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
The starting point of this publication and of the work it accompanies is travel, and more specifically, the wave of new perceptions that travel brings and the transformation that it causes. Artist Guan Xiao compares the volatility of this process with the fluctuation of the weather.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
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.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
currently out of stock
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
Maria Ludovica Santini - The Last Lands – Scenario – Glossary – Atlas Manual – Box – Lands\' Books
2016
English edition
Bruno
In the last of the wild lands: an exploration of the world's least hospitable territories which have made and still make human settlement difficult or impossible. The study is conducted by means of three work tools: a Glossary, an Atlas and a travel guide.
Andreas Sell - Lifestyles
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In Lifestyles Andreas Sell combines a diary with photographic documentation, pictures of sculptures and drawings from 2010 to 2015. These excerpts reflect his nomadic-like life, the clearance of his parents' household and the enterprise of building a holiday house.
Susan Philipsz - Follow Me
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Designed on the basis of a contemporary Baedeker, this book offers an original itinerary in the historic center of the city of Genoa. It is a city-guide that links different places and times, and that also moves from the habit of moving, investigated as a typical phenomenon of the Grand Tour—and that is the origin of the term “tourism”.
Christiane Geoffroy - On dirait que j\'étais... l\'archipel des Kerguelen
2015
French edition
Frac Réunion
A travel notebook covering the artist's stay in Kerguelen Islands, Indian Ocean.
Claude Patriat - Résidence en résistance - Voyage dans les coulisses d\'Antipodes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Nero su Bianco
2015
English edition
Nero
A provocative interrogation of race and identity in contemporary Italy envisioned by visual artists, scholars and writers from Africa, Europe and the United States exploring new forms of subjectivity and agency shaped by history, immigration and integration, the legacy of colonialism and persistent stereotypes (a project curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Storr and Peter Benson Miller).
Espace art actuel - Migrations-Borders
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…
Heinz Peter Knes - On distance
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Antonio Rovaldi - Orizzonte in Italia
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Artist's book.
Gabriele Basilico - Iran 1970
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A photographic journey from Yugoslavia to Iran during the 1970's.
Rada Iveković - Les citoyens manquants
2015
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
This essay examines the concept of “missing citizens”, taking as a point of departure the violence in the French suburbs, and focusing on contemporary migrations and the construction of citizenships.
Hannes Loichinger - The Provence Summer Reader - After Dark
2015
English edition
Paraguay Press
New and historical texts by artists, writers and cultural agents that ballades amongst the themes of seduction, glamour and politics.
Chus Antón - La La Land
2015
Spanish edition
Terranova
Chus Antón's first book guides us through the mythical locations of Los Angeles that inhabit our collective imagination: film and music video sets, recording studios, crime scenes… Including maps and texts by Cristian Rodríguez.
Carla Pérez Vas - Cuadernos Terranova - I Saw Three Different Moons Tonight
2015
Spanish edition
Terranova
Compilation of photographs taken by Carla Pérez Vas, composer and guitar player with music band Mourn, during her first North-American tour.
Till Roeskens - À propos de quelques points dans l\'espace
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Halfway between the autobiography, the adventure story, the manifesto and the catalogue, this publication traces twenty-five years of travels, explorations, and encounters by artist-explorer Till Roeskens.
Jimmie Durham - Venice, Work and Tourism
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This artist book is composed of the observations, texts and images that Durham collected during a Venetian stay, pointing out the complex relationship between the tourism industries, the stories of local workers and Venice's history.
Jean-Christophe Norman - De l\'action à la conversation
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conversation series
Since 2010, Sophie Lapalu and Jean-Christophe Norman have worked together in the form of interviews and critical writings focussing on artistic actions and their visibility. De l'action à la conversation (“From action to conversation”) forms part of this reflective approach.
New Territories
2014
English edition
various
16.00 8.00 €
A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense.
Nouveaux territoires
2014
French edition
various
16.00 8.00 €
A photographic encounter between Guillaume de Sardes, Nicolas Comment, Ola Rindal, and Henry Roy, four French photographers who are fond, each in their own way, of the mundane, the insignificant, which they interpret with controlled blur, subtle color palettes and perspectives that make sense (available in English edition).
Avava-ovava
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Compendium of stories, reflections and images conceived by a group of young French Romanis, during their trip to Birkenau for the commemoration of the massacre of the Gypsy camp during the night of August 2nd to 3rd, 1944.
Henri Deluy - Action cuisine
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Travel notebook dedicated to the joys of gastronomy in France and the world by poet Henri Deluy.
Yannick Torlini - Nous avons marché
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This publication gathers a series of texts investigating the topic of escape.
Daniel Maier-Reimer - The Italian Journeys of - Four Walks by Daniel Maier-Reimer, 2012–2013
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimer's invitation to present his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition “Villa Romana 1905–2013: Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz” at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn.
Chloé Tun Tun - Last Time Burma
2014
English edition
ACME
A photographic journey of rediscovery of the native country of the Swiss photographer of Burmese origin, in search of the familiar in the "exotic".
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.
Raoul Hausmann - Hylé - État de rêve en Espagne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.
Félicia Atkinson - Twenties are gone
2013
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
The first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.
Andreas Fogarasi - Panorama
2013
bilingual edition (English / Turkish)
Sputnik
12.00 5.00 €
This 3.5 meters-wide artist's book documents and extends a multifaceted installation by artist Andreas Fogarasi—at once a panoramic view of Istanbul, a public platform, a dysfunctional look-out and a touristic attraction.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe: Bottari
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe: Bottari - Limited edition
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.
Ingo Giezendanner - Zzz Züri
2013
no text
Nieves
The 3rd drawing novel in Ingo Giezendanner's travelling book trilogy.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Beirut (+ DVD)
2013
English edition
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
A mapping of the young Lebanese art scene (DVD included).
Marco Godinho - Endless Time searching
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Analogues - Monographs
First monograph.
Barbara Anna Husar - Hirtin
2012
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Through stamps and photographs, the Austrian artist tells the story of her mystical and artistic experience in the Sinai desert (the dust jacket is hand-painted by the artist).
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