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Andro Wekua - Sunset / I Love the Horizon
2008
English edition
Le Magasin
18.00 9.00 €
Inspired by a monumental installation by Andro Wekua, this artist's book showcases a collection of illustrations and archives.
Éric Tabuchi - Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations
2008
no text
Florence Loewy
(last copies available!)
A reprise of Ed Ruscha's ground-breaking artist's book from 1963 (boxed set of 26 oversized postcard-like prints of photos).
Jacques Villeglé - Le lacéré anonyme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...
Liam Gillick - Factories in the Snow
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph designed by the English artist, focusing on the projects of the last five years, with a new theoretical framework and full description of numerous projects.
Peter Downsbrough - [TILL - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. The limited edition is accompanied with a box set signed and enhanced with the stamp of two parallel lines, as well as an original work, folded and inserted in the book.
Christopher Wool - Can your monkey do the dog
2007
no text
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Can your monkey do the dog is the title for this book conceived jointly by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Thanks to digital imaging, they created together a series of pieces; one of them proposed an image from his corpus, which the other one reworked, by adding or removing elements. A new "layer" was each time superimposed on the previous one, without any constraint or mutual censorship regulating the alternating interventions.
Liam Gillick - Proxemics - Selected Writings (1988-2006)
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
This publication reunites a selection of critical writings for the most part printed in magazines or exhibition catalogues: a reinterpretation of Conceptual and Minimal art, as much as a testimony of the 90's art scene.
Helen Mirra - Cloud, the, 3
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.
Peter Downsbrough - [TILL
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. A work on the notion of position and centring which questions the relationship between space and language.
Markus Soo - Modern Optical Experiments in Typography - Univers Ultra Light Oblique (1968)
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
This collaborative project by Mark Soo and Tim Lee formally pushes the boundaries of what a book is. The book is blank except for four printed pages containing words set in Univers.
Joseph Grigely - Blueberry Surprise
2006
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Artist's book.
Annette Messager - Word for Word
2006
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
60.00 45.00 €
The writings by Annette Messager assembed by Marie-Laure Bernadac appear to be exuberant, poetic, trivial. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.
Robert Barry - Details (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
Details shows a succession of scenes filmed in static shots, appearing behind words letters cut on a black screen, giving the word the function of the frame and therefore rephrasing the link between language and image.
Lawrence Weiner - Liberté et contraintes - A structure of Lawrence Weiner (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video creation by one of the most famous representatives of conceptual art, exploring relations between language, time and space.
 Art & Language - Homes for Homes II
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Art as theory of the practice and practice of the theory.
Ján Mančuška - Absent
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
First monograph dedicated to the Czech artist .
Thierry Kuntzel - Title TK (book / DVD-ROM)
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Anarchive
A book and a DVD-ROM by Thierry Kuntzel (notes, essays, works, database).
Kay Rosen - Wall Paintings and Drawings, 2002-2006
2006
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
An unpublished interview with the American artist, a series of photographic boards and an essay by Kay Rosen: a presentation of her recent works as well as a general introduction to her oeuvre.
Robert Barry - Autobiography
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
An impersonal autobiography (artist's book).
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot - Signed edition with original artwork
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque - Limited edition
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
14.00 9.00 €
Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).
Abdelkader Benchamma - C\'est ici que l\'on met les titres
2005
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Drawings.
Franz Erhard Walther - ABC... Museum - Wortbilder
2004
bilingual edition (German / French)
MAMCO - Artists' books
32.00 25.00 €
German artist's "word-images" (early works).
Peter Downsbrough - Group-ED (3 DVDs)
2004
Le Fresnoy
50.00 20.00 €
A video triptych.
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C (DVD)
2004
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
An urban journey.
Peter Downsbrough - Position
2004
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Peter Downsbrough - Many
2004
no text
various
17.00 10.00 €
Artist's book: an invitation to travel by way of a mappemonde punctuated by lines and photographs of city spaces.
Mel Bochner - Spéculations - Ecrits 1965-1973
2003
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
The writings of a major artist of the 70's NY scene.
Peter Downsbrough - From [to] (DVD)
2003
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.
Peter Downsbrough - AND HERE, AS
2002
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Liam Gillick - Five or six
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.
Philippe Cazal - Les litanies
2000
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Artist's book.
Catherine Quéloz - Christian Robert-Tissot
1999
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
29.00 20.00 €
Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.
Liam Gillick - L\'île de la discussion - Le Grand Centre de Conférence
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
11.00 5.00 €
Ben Vautier - Manifeste d\'Art Total - Limited edition
1997
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, original signed silkscreen print.
Pierre Bismuth - Humming (CD)
1997
Yvon Lambert - Objects, editions and multiples
(last copies available!)
37 minutes sound piece realized in 1995 (limited edition).
Jacques Villeglé - Un homme sans métier - Limited edition
1995
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text illustrated by a unique original signed lacerated poster.
Rémy Zaugg - A Sheet of Paper / Ein Blatt Papier II
1992
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
35.00 17.00 €
The series of engravings A Sheet of Paper, with which Rémy Zaugg develops his reflection on the exchange of the glance between the spectator and the work
Rémy Zaugg - Le tableau te constitue et tu constitues le tableau - Projets
1991
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Le Consortium - Monographs
Preliminary graphic designs for paintings.
Rémy Zaugg - Personne
1990
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Le Consortium - Monographs
Paintings, photographies of two exhibitions, exhibitions plans.
Joël Ducorroy - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Jacques Villeglé - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Lithograph (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
David Douard -
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
Monograph.
The Poetry of Translation
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.
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