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Alfredo Volpi - The Poetics of Colour
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the first international retrospective dedicated to Brazilian-Italian painter Alfredo Volpi: a thorough exploration in words and images of the painter's peculiar life and career—from the bounds and relationships with the Brazilian art community, to his special link to the city of São Paulo and his adopted country, leading to the development of his unique artistic language.
Cécile Fromont - L\'Art de la conversion - Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.
Laura Mello - Ringing Still Life (7\
2018
Corvo Records
A 7" double groove cut concept-album (2004-2017), including field recordings and ringtones composed by Laura Mello.
Paulo Nimer Pjota -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This first monograph on Paulo Nimer Pjota, profusely illustrated and collecting several essays and a long conversation between the Brazilian artist and Kiki Mazzucchelli, takes stock at Nimer Pjota's signature condensation of pictorial concerns and life lessons. His layered works, like modern, rough palimpsests, are testaments to the artist's collapsing of high with low, society and history with the personal and the marginal, often told through readymade details and objects that Nimer Pjota corrals in front of the wall pieces.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Eduardo Kac - Télescope intérieur - Une œuvre spatiale d\'Eduardo Kac (DVD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
In February 2016, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet produced aboard the ISS an artwork by Eduardo Kac, entitled Inner Telescope. This film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space.
 Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin - Aru Kuxipa - Sacred Secret
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This collaborative journey between Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto and members from the Huni Kuin indigenous communities brings to the fore the concept of “ancestral futures” and extends the concerns that have been evident in Neto's oeuvre over the past 20 years: a celebration of the sensuality of being, the unity of bodies and nature, and a longing for spiritual vision.
Judith Benhamou-Huet - Aleijadinho - Le Brésil est un sculpteur métisse
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A biographical essay on the Baroque Brazilian architect and sculptor from the 18th century, Aleijadinho.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2017
French edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
(last copies available!)
Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
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
Valeska Soares -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
This first comprehensive monograph details over ten years of work by Brazilian, New York-based artist, Valeska Soares.
Ricardo Basbaum - Diagrams - 1994-ongoing
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
A publishing survey of the diagrams produced by Ricardo Basbaum in recent years. Both autonomous pieces or elements from installations, these diagrams act as interventional tools and visual poems that connect the literary and plastic spaces.
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi (reference monograph).
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique - Limited edition
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Reference monograph: the illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, with an original xylograph, numbered and signed, entitled The Key.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Alexandre da Cunha - Drawing Room Confessions #10
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Alexandre da Cunha plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
Lygia Pape - Magnetized Space
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
The Forest & the School - Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?
2015
English edition
Archive Books
An anthology interrogating the concept of antropofagia in Brazilian thought and its philosophical, ecological, and cosmopolitical influence.
Yael Bartana - Inferno
2015
English edition
Petzel
27.00 14.00 €
Documentation of Inferno, a prophetic short film on the inauguration and the destruction of a replica of Solomon's Temple in São Paulo
Arthur Luiz Piza -
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
Reference monograph.
Arthur Luiz Piza - Limited edition
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Reference monograph, with an original engraving, numbered and signed.
 Dias & Riedweg -
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Laura Lima -
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph.
 Cildo Meireles - Salt & Sugar - No Sugar, No Salt
2012
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Catalogue documenting a unique installation born from the colllaboration of two major artists of the twentieth century.
Augusto de Campos - Poètemoins - Anthologie
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
The anthology of the founder of the concrete poetry movement in Brazil.
Augusto de Campos - Poètemoins - Anthologie – Limited edition
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2010 - Regards sur l\'art action en Amérique latine et en Asie
2011
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.
Eduardo Kac - Life, Light, Language
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
An investigation into Eduardo Kac's practice in 50 questions asked by digital art historian Dominique Moulon.
Lygia Clark - Archive pour une œuvre-événement - Projet d\'activation de la mémoire corporelle  d\'une trajectoire artistique et son contexte (10 DVDs box set)
2011
French subtitles
various
65.00 35.00 €
Box set of 10 DVDs featuring 20 interviews conducted and produced by Suely Rolnik on experimental practices that Lygia Clark (1920-1988) developed from 1962.
Haroldo de Campos - Une poétique de la radicalité - Essai sur la poésie d\'Oswald de Andrade
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.
Henri-Pierre Jeudy - Petit traité de scissiparité
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
15.30 7.50 €
This publication features fictions dealing with physical deformations and doubles, in order to reflect on the duality of man and the body.
Eduardo Kac - Natural History of the Enigma and other works
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Artist and poet Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive works on internet and for his practice of bio art. This catalogue dedicated to this singular artist features contributions by an art critic (Eleonor Heartney), a leader of the contemporary American novel (Steve Tomasula) and a French sociologist and philosopher (Pierre -Henri Jeudy). An interview with Eduardo Kac by Hugues Marchal concludes the volume.
Surface Tension Supplement - Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate social connection
2009
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Errant Bodies - Surface Tension Supplements
Identifying an intensified concern for place-based production in art and architecture, Surface Tension – Supplements addresses questions of site-specific art, public and architectural design, and location-based practice. This 3rd issue extends artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Brazil.
Peter Friedl - Working at Copan / Trabalhando no Copan
2008
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A collection of interviews with workers and employees at Edifício Copan, a landmark modernist architecture by Oscar Niemeyer in the center of São Paulo, embodying an era of radical political and economic changes within Brazilian society.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Armando Andrade Tudela - Nine Images of the Glass House and One Portrait
2007
no text
it: editions
currently out of stock
Photographic essay dedicated to Lina Bo Bardi's Glass House. Armando Andrade Tudela outlines the relationship between the light, the building's structure and its close environment. Glass House is a perfect example of the union of Modernism and Brazilian vernacular architecture, and Bo Bardi's first production in Brazil.
Maurice Pianzola - Partir à Pernambouc - Récit
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
14.00 6.00 €
What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).
YWY, Searching for a Character between Future Worlds - Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A conversation about science fiction and robotics, ecology and gender, Indigenous Futurisms and what it means to be human.
Amazonia - Anthology as Cosmology
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance.
Éva Le Roi - Five Stories of São Paulo
2020
English edition
Accattone
sold out
A project by Éva Le Roi & Pierre Burquel (drawings and sketches of São Paulo); hand drawings by Éva Le Roi.
Lina Bo Bardi - Habitats
2018
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
A compilation of Lina Bo Bardi's tenure as director of Habitat, a publication self-dubbed “the magazine of the arts in Brazil”. Between 1950 and 1954, Habitat documented Bo Bardi's early thoughts on Brazilian culture, as well as reflecting her very personal take on modernism. Edited and designed by Julia, with contributions by Tamar Guimarães, Claudia Leisinger, Tony de Marco, Lara Viana and Tuca Vieira.
Tropicália and Beyond - Dialogues in Brazilian Film History
2018
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Although the short-lived Brazilian cultural movement known as Tropicália is most commonly associated with music and the visual arts, its sense of playfulness and strategies of appropriation have stimulated many of the country's filmmakers from the 1960s to the present. This richly illustrated publication features essays, interviews, and manifestos with many key filmmakers and scholars reflecting on Tropicália's influence on Brazilian cinema.
Maria Thereza Alves - The Long Road to Xico / El largo camino a Xico, 1991-2015
2017
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
The catalogue is the first comprehensive survey about the works and projects by the Brazilian artist and activist, spanning 1991 until 2015. It also includes unpublished artist's text by Alves, and essays by Pedro de Llano and T. J. Demos.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané - Animal That Doesn\'t Exist
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
The first monograph of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané spanning his entire work to-date. Structured around keywords defining the artist's practice, this illustrated edition also features reprinted literary texts.
Rogério Duarte - Marginália 1
2013
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
The first in-depth survey of Duarte's practice, and the first time that a selection of his poems and texts have been translated into English.
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