Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz have designed a photographic and pictorial artist's book which focuses on Berlin cemeteries. In a combination of photography and painting they consider the uniqueness of the park-like cemeteries in Berlin, which are used as leisure and recreational areas. Bachmann and Banz turn these places of melancholy and calm into an aesthetic experience by “making emotions visible”.
As in mythological tales, the characters in Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings are mortals, animals, angels and demons, all coexisting in a lascivious Pandemonium. Vivid colors and rough strokes render well the grotesque essence of these bestial & erotic scenes whose symbolism could be compared to Frida Kahlo's surrealistic language.
Celebrating ten years of artistic career, this catalogue reproduces a series of miniature replicas of mostly huge-format paintings by Norbert Bisky, repainted by the artist himself.
An insight into Subodh Gupta's expansive, multifarious practice, featuring an interview between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an essay Martin Herbert.
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Catalogue gathering the works of
Ivan Messac: bas-relief sculptures; printed textiles, and series of paintings dedicated to Adam and Eve or Maïakovski. A collection of works inspired by Pop iconography, in which we also meet Pessoa, Picabia, Hendrix, Jimmy Page…
A book envisaged as a critical work based on exhibitions bringing together eight French and British artists: a new approach to contemporary painting, beyond the traditional opposition between figuration and abstraction.
First monograph on the French artist's enigmatic “glam” oeuvre: a rock opera / curio cabinet juxtaposing his works with 45 historic and contemporary artists and naturalia.
The publication presents new works by painter Christoph Ruckhäberle, assembling linocuts and offset pages held together by a Japanese binding. Beautifully produced, this artist's book is published in a limited print run.
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
An overview of American artist's recent paintings and sculptures, exposing connections between the topics and his thematic development in a variety of media.
This comprehensive catalogue traces the many stages of Antje Majewski's work, including paintings, photographs, videos, film, installation, and dance theatre.
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.
An archive of 269 paintings and drawings realized from 1993 to 2007 on cut out, fragmented, transparent or hollowed out paper, reproduced on a 1/1 scale.