Art & public space

 
 
Sophie Nys - Divided we stand, together we fall
2017
English edition
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
This artist's book presents a set of photographs made by Belgian artist Sophie Nys during her stay in Zurich. It features each of the modernist fountains produced by designer Alfred Aebersold in the 1970s and scattered throughout the Swiss city. The images are associated with amusing and clever captions written by Leila Peacock, a Scottish artist living in Zurich.
 Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier - Years later...
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
For three years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier have been taking candid photographs of people from all walks of life and of every age in public and semi-public urban spaces: on streets and city squares, in cafés and bars, train stations and airports, stores and shopping centers. Combined with genuine words taken from the internet or heard in the street, this photographic series is a comédie humaine of the present day and age.
 Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d\'Uterpan) - Uchronia - duplicate > do not create, infiltrate > do not exhibit, exceed > do not belong, appear > do not claim, delegate > do not restrict
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Companion book to a project by the artists Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d'Uterpan), which emanates from the analysis of individual or collective attitudes and behaviors produced in the public space of a given city.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 9 - L\'Art pour la ville – 1986-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
Revue & Corrigée
2017
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Researcher Juliette Volcler on sound in public space; on identities and influences in music; an essay by Kasper Toeplitz; carte blanche to Patrick Renaud; Summer festivals, disc reviews, and more.
George Trakas - Du sec à l\'eau - Étude pour Lamelouze
2017
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
Study book made by artist George Trakas in response to a commission issued by inhabitants of the Lamelouze commune in the southern French region of Gard, north of Alès (as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France).
Mari Linnman - À Distances - Œuvrer dans les espaces publics
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.
Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy - The New Patrons & Participatory Art
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).
Surface Tension Supplement - Klangumwelt – Ernst-Reuter-Platz
2017
English edition
Errant Bodies - Surface Tension Supplements
This book presents proposals for the transformation of Ernst-Reuter-Platz, a city square in Berlin. They are the results of a process of auditory artistic research and design developed according to a new radical approach on the relationships between aural activity and environment.
Ré-créations - Les « 1% artistiques » dans les collèges en Seine-Saint-Denis
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documentation around 17 commissioned artworks set in middle schools, as part of the Percent for Art Program established in the French Department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Tekla Aslanishvili - Algorithmic Space and Its Social Implications
2017
English edition
Casino Luxembourg
Tekla Aslanishvili's research for an artistic project in the public space.
Erwin Wurm - Bob
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Creating Bob: a food truck with a living, warm and hospitable public purpose, set close to Lille-Europe Train Station and commissioned as part of the “New Patrons” program.
François Hers - Letter to a Friend About the New Patrons
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Reflecting upon the necessary conditions for the development of the New Patrons Protocol, the French conceptual artist calls for a better involvement of museums as well as for an art history that would relate creative processes with political conditions.
François Hers - Lettre à un ami au sujet des Nouveaux commanditaires
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Reflecting upon the necessary conditions for the development of the New Patrons Protocol, the French conceptual artist calls for a better involvement of museums as well as for an art history that would relate creative processes with political conditions.
Liliana Moro - 29,88 KMQ
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication encloses a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of an eponymous permanent work created by Liliana Moro for the seventh edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors) in Trivero, in the Piemonte countryside.
Stadt auf Achse - Mit Kunst urbane Räume gestalten – Ein Handbuch
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
Liaisons urbaines - Transforming Public Spaces in African Cities
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
a.p.r.e.s editions
Liaisons urbaines [Urban Connections] chronicles the development and implementation of an eponymous programme for enhancing public spaces in African cities by operations that combine urban planning and development, design, art and heritage.
Didier Fiúza Faustino - Vortex Populi
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
it: editions
Vortex Populi is a visual essay focusing on five works by Didier Fiuza Faustino in which the French artist and architect reflects on public space and popular struggle through an examination of the use of crowd control barriers in clashes between protestors and authoritarian forces.
Social Media - New Masses
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The emergence of the new digital technologies and social media has transformed the very concept of the mass gathering. The present volume brings together a collection of studies that analyze this transformation and seize the opportunity to reevaluate the cultural and medial historiography of the masses.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
 Nicolas Floc\'h - Trois commandes
2015
French edition
various
A review of three commissioned works executed by artist Nicolas Floc'h in isolated communities in Santiago, Chile, Rennes, and Tours, France, as part of the New Patrons program.
Jyll Bradley - Le Jardin hospitalier - Une œuvre de Jyll Bradley
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Le Jardin hospitalier documents Jyll Bradley's eponymous site-specific artwork produced in April 2015 under the auspices of the Fondation de France's New Patrons program, at Hospital Roger Salengro in Lille, France. The artist has transformed a 100m long, window-less corridor into an immersive installation—a promenade—with black-lit photographs, literary texts and tactile sculptural elements
 Alhena Katsof & Dana Yahalomi - Solution 263 - Double Agent
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
A political and artistic performance manual revolving around the double agent figure
Art Altstetten Albisrieden - A Public Art Project
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Art and the City 2.0.
Claude Closky - Rectangulaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.
Dan Graham - Mirror Landscape
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
Inter - Micro-interventions
2015
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
The “micro-interventions” in the public space in the age of social movements and citizen action.
Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Liz Magic Laser's recent works.
Open Museum Open City
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue.
Paysage industriel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists—Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner, and Lani Maestro—developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Fred Dewey - The School of Public Life
2014
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
Rethinking public space.
Kunst + Stadt
2014
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Art in the city.
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.
Emilio López-Menchero - Projet Bel®encontre à Tourcoing
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Interview with Emilio López-Menchero around a commissioned work executed by the artist as part of the New Patrons program.
Fabien Rigobert - Castille Residence
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A New Patrons project, 2010.
Faire art comme on fait société - Les Nouveaux commanditaires (+ 2 DVD)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).
Roman Signer - Fondazione Zegna, All\'Aperto
2013
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A complete documentation on Roman Signer's first permanent public commission.
Ruhestörung - Ein Symposium
2013
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Disturbing public space.
Chantal Mouffe - The Space of Agonism - Critical Spatial Practice 02
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.
François Hers - Art without Capitalism (The New Patrons)
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.
 Futurefarmers - A Variation on Powers of Ten
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Ten discussions based on the opening picnic scene of Charles and Ray Eames's film Powers of Ten used as score.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
Yorgos Sapountzis - A statue has remembered me / Eine Statue hat sich an mich erinnert
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An in-depth survey of Yorgos Sapountzis' work in ten chapters from 2000 to the present.
Inter - Espace public
2012
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art in the public sphere.
Eric Valentin - Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen - La sculpture comme subversion de l\'architecture (1981-1997)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.
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