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 Yan Pei-Ming - The Man Who Weeps
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph: a retrospective of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings and watercolors from 2006 to 2019, structured around the figure of disappearance and violence, and around the confrontation with the works of the masters of the past as well as with modern iconography, with essays by Franck Gautherot, David Liot, Xavier Douroux and Fabian Stech.
 Zao Wou-Ki - Inks and Watercolours (1948-2009)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
An immersion in Zao Wou-Ki's works on paper, Chinese ink and watercolors, covering 60 years of creation.
Hu Xiaoyuan - States of Tension
2018
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
Monograph on the work of Chinese artist Hu Xiaoyuan, featuring an essay by Nicolas Bourriaud and a conversation between Gea Politi and the artist.
 Lee Mingwei - 9 Stories / 9 Histoires / 九則故事
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This trilingual catalogue documents nine essential works from the Taiwanese artist through nine interviews with curators and institution officials, illustrated with archives and exhibition views.
Shanghai - Contemporary Art Archival Project – 1998-2012
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The artistic development in China from 1998 to 2018.
 Birdhead - Welcome to Birdhead World Again
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The artistic practice of Birdhead associates photography with particular collage skills and mounting technique. The publication is a visual diary of the duo's experimentation in Italy, accompanied with a dual language essay by art historian Maurizio Bortolotti.
Qiu Zhijie - Journeys without Arrivals
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Illustrated catalogue published in conjunction of the first comprehensive overview of Qiu Zhijie, one of the most important Chinese artists of his generation. The publication directly addresses the challenges of conveying the complexity of Qiu Zhijie's practice in the European context. It features essays by Andrea Bellini, Davide Quadrio, and Francesca Girelli, an extensive interview with the artist by Liu Jingjing, and descriptions of the exhibited works.
Audrey Chen - Beam Splitter - Rough Tongue (vinyl LP)
2017
Corvo Records
Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) is a duo for amplified voice and trombone. Its debut album is one part, a timbral collage of carefully extracted sound material and in another, a longer moment taken from an intimate room below the din.
Art Against Art
2017
English edition
Art Against Art
The fourth issue of Art Against Art is looking at the change in temperature that has occured since last fall and the challenges art faces such as the rise in nativism in the West, the naissance of the influence of A.I. in art and the growing influence of the Chinese art market.
 Zhao Zhao - Provocateur
2017
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This first English monograph on the work of Zhao Zhao examines the Chinese artist's working practice, emblematic for art's ability to address conflict—social, political, and aesthetic—in a world undergoing unprecedented upheaval. It features essays by Hou Hanru and Li Zhenhua.
Kaleidoscope Asia - Simon Denny Takeover
2017
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
miscellaneous
15.00 10.00 €
Somewhere in between a magazine issue, an artist's book and a research report, this Kaleidoscope Asia Special edition with guest-editor Simon Denny revolves around a new project by the New Zealand artist set in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Ruines du temps réel
2017
French edition
various
Catalogue of works by Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, gathering a series of landscapes, portraits, and historical scenes exposing the tragedy of our contemporary world. Featuring exhibition views, a text by Xavier Douroux, and an interview with the artist by Pascal Pique (catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain in Sète, France).
David Harvey - Abstract from the Concrete
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his 2016 lecture at Harvard with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why.
Basile Mookherjee - Fully Fueled
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.
David Maljković - In Low Resolution
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A case study about concept cars and former modernist memories (artist's book).
Wang Yuyang - Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am (box set)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
First bilingual comprehensive monograph on Wang Yuyang, these volumes delve into Wang Yuyang's practice, focusing particularly on his eponymous solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2015.
Ugo Rondinone - Breathe Walk Die
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Simon Starling - A–Z
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.
Yona Friedman - Slide Shows (3 books box set)
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Cneai
Slide Shows is a three-volume box set, with over 1.500 original drawings and texts in which Friedman gives his own personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking the world through a series of “cartoons.”
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.
Yannick Dauby - Echoes as Messengers (CD)
2016
Kalerne
A composition by Yannick Dauby built upon the eletroacoustic modulation of Japanese bats' ultrasonic voices.
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Shanghai special issue.
Fouad Bouchoucha -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic studio S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t, Fouad Bouchoucha's first monograph gathers a selection of his works along with four essays and an interview.
A Journal of the Plague Year
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
29.00 21.75 €
Starting with the SARS outbreak that affected Hong Kong in the spring of 2003, this publication traces the different narratives, historical backgrounds as well as the implications of these events in relation to the contemporary culture and politics of Hong Kong.
Simon Starling - Peep-Hole Sheet - Woven Worlds – Some Notes on a Work in Progress
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Taking as a starting point the description of an exhibition project, the British artist reflects on the creative process, serendipity, and writing as an exploratory tool in conceiving and creating a work.
Ziran / Nature - Art, Nature, and Ethics
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters - Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A touring exhibition which explores the existing and sometimes hypothetical connections that led four Chinese artists to settle down in Eighties' New York.
 Huang Yong Ping - Bâton Serpent
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication supplements the exhibition of the same title at the MAXXI museum in Rome and contains a selection of texts, installation views and a special section focused on Huang Yong Ping's project notes, sketches and models.
 Hong-Kai Wang - Collapsing Ourselves (vinyl LP)
2014
Mount Analogue
currently out of stock
This vinyl LP stems from a series of performances by sound artists Mattin and Hong-Kai Wang. The recording consists of a superimposition of four layers of conversations between the two artists.
Hu Fang - Dear Navigator
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
15.00 7.50 €
A collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph (available in English edition).
Transcultural Modernisms
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.
Bill Vorn - The Theater of Machines
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Artist Bill Vorn creates robotics as part of his research on artificial life and machine anthropomorphism. This catalogue, intended to be a robograhpy of the artist, attempts to understand, if perhaps not the phenomenon, then at least Bill Vorn's innovative approach to it (with contributions by Ian Fenelon and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux).
Yang Fudong -
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, including a comprehensive selection of Yang Fudong's photographic and film work, as well as newly commissioned theoretical essays.
 Huang Yong Ping - Amoy/Xiamen
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Monograph based on the specific project conceived by Huang Yong Ping for his exhibition at Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, with numerous essays that trace the entire career of the artist, as well as an abundant iconography on the exhibition.
Gianni Piacentino -
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.
 Nikita - Echines
2013
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An exploration of the human back through a series of black and white images by photographer Nikita, accompanied by texts or poetic montages.
Laurent Faulon - Life! Life! Life!
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Aparté
First monograph: an annotated chronology of Laurent Faulon's residencies, exhibitions and public commissions, with an essay by Pascal Beausse.
Bei Dao - There must be someone to rewrite love
2013
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
(last copies available!)
Poems by Bei Dao / iPad Drawings by Francesco Clemente, created exclusively for this book.
Max Küng - Pensive Racing Drivers
2013
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book: Max Küng's collection of pensive racing drivers portraits.
Ai Weiwei - Fairytale - A Reader
2012
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The documenta project reader (texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Roger M. Buergel, Raphael Gygax, Christian Höller, Catherine Wood...).
Simon Starling - Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Seven seminal works by Simon Starling and Superflex in a dialogical setting.
3 Years - Arrow Factory
2012
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A comprehensive documentation of some twenty-eight temporary site-specific works produced by Chinese and international artists at Arrow Factory since 2008.
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.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMCO - Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
 Huang Yong Ping - Wu Zei
2011
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Mennour
Luxurious monograph based on Huang Yong Ping's monumental installation at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, documenting a series of recent exhibitions, with an essay by Jessica Morgan and the transcription of a round table with many personalities around the artist.
Yannick Dauby - Taî-pak thiaⁿ saⁿ piàn (CD)
2011
Kalerne
Three sound compositions by sound artist Yannick Dauby, based on field recordings of Taipei city and its surroundings. Inspired by the Ghost Festival and the ambiences of Summertime, by the evolution and modernity of the urban environment, by the now extinct plain aborigines who once lived in the Taipei basin, these works are reflecting three ways of listening the urban soundscape of Taiwan's capital.
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