A correspondence between a Moor and a Christian in 1666 at the time of false prophets and multiple conversions. Somewhere between official speeches and secret dealings, an allegory of contemporary colonialism...
For his first ever conceptual piece from 1990, Frédéric Acquaviva collaborated with Australian pianist Mark Knoop on the recording of all harmonic frequencies using only the damper pedal of a piano.
This trio has only one line of instrumentation and remains in total harmony throughout, though the melodies and the rhythms often arise from unexpected places. An incisive and vertiginous climb towards pleasure and dreams, street music and dance music; these fragile and volatile moments were fixed in concert in Vandœuvre in 1989.
A retrospect on the abundant work of this poetic artist, explorer of images and builder of labyrinths who expresses himself on film, in the theater and in his writings. Interview with, and visual lay-out by Raul Ruiz.
Brochure/catalogue (24 pages) of an exhibition that took place in 1987, simultaneously in Milan (Mercato del Sale gallery) and Paris (Donguy gallery), presenting the pictorial version of metaphysical poems.
Catalogue documenting the eponymous installation—250 clocks and 250 hammers mounted on a wall—especially commissioned by Le Magasin in 1987. The publication includes texts by Jacques Guillot, Franz Kaizer, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, and René Denizot.
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
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Limited edition of the legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record, and with an original lithograph, dated, numbered and signed.
The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by French sound artist Eve Aboulkheir, and by Lasse Marhaug, a figure from the Norwegian experimental scene.
This book commemorates the long collaboration between couturier Azzedine Alaïa and photographer Arthur Elgort, who, working together, shaped the 1980s and actively contributed to the renewal of the representation of women.
A digital library of a contemporary world, shot by French fashion photographer and director, Axel Morin: an archive of "urban poetry," as seen through the lens of several generations of iPhones.
The most accomplished tale of Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), decadent dandy, ardent erotomaniac and corrosive pen, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound.
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.
The result of a remarkable editorial work whose graphic design is signed by Syndicat and Lucien Pelen, this first monograph brings together fifteen years of photographic and video production, unpublished contributions, texts and the making-of of the actions carried out by the artist.