Contemporary art

 
 
Alain de La Bourdonnaye - Peintre, graveur, artisan-architecte du livre, typographe, imprimeur et bâtisseur (3 volume box set)
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
Georges Rousse - Rising Circles
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
various
A retrospective of Georges Rousse's "circles."
Paradis
2023
texts in English and French
various
Paradis is a continuation of the eponymous exhibition conceived by artist Marie Angeletti in Marseilles in 2021. The exhibition brought together 56 artists of different origins and generations. More than just a transcription of this event, this catalogue brings together some one hundred contributions, combining critical texts, poetry, artists' writings and new translations, alongside an equally large number of visual contributions and ad hoc works, most of them previously unpublished.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Amour, amours, amourxs
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 36 of the Palais de Tokyo magazine proposes to explore the multiplicity, hybridity and fluidity of identities and the ways of loving, the plurality and complexity of our affects and our sexualities.
Tadashi Kawamata - Site Sketches n°1-500
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Site Sketches n°1-500 is the first volume of the catalog raisonné devoted to the Site Sketches series, works on paper made from recycled scrap wood by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Francesc Ruiz - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Mousse
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Cally Spooner, Donald Rodney, Ivan Cheng, Niloufar Emamifa, McKenzie Wark, Clémentine Deliss, Kerstin Stakemeier, Chus Martínez...
Studio Marconi 1966–1980 - An Anthology
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Studio Marconi's publishing activities since the 1960s, tracing the studio's history.
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Song for Living Song for Dying
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The most comprehensive publication to date on Korakrit Arunanondchai's practice.
Fatma Bucak - While the Dust Quickly Falls
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.
Mattia Denisse - Tout - Encyclopaedia
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first major book by the Lisbon-based French artist Mattia Denisse.
Eva Fàbregas - Enredos
2023
texts in English and Spanish
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph of the Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas.
Maude Léonard-Contant - Listen, the crust is cracking
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first-ever comprehensive overview of Maude Léonard-Contant's universe.
Giuseppe Micciché - Cento Passi
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic essay on the abandoned project of a suspension bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts and on the coastline of the Strait of Messina, documenting the transformation of suburban coastal areas and the daily life of the inhabitants.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - WATER COLUMN
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The second and final installment of FUTURE, a series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores the deep watery world.
Camille Henrot - Jus d\'Orange
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Peter Greenaway - Papers
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Figures
The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Une Trilogie
2023
French edition
Art Book Magazine
A rethinking of the conceptual approach of Ludovic Chemarin©, artist turned fictional and polycephalous, who continues to redraw the figurative boundaries of the artist and the work, the exhibition and the institution.
The Drawer - Portraits
2023
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
The Drawer #23, on the theme of portraits, gathers drawings and contributions by some twenty artists and creative people.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
Vues & données (entretiens)
2023
French edition
Mix
Interviews with artists and researchers on the issues of catch and data.
Antoine Bonnet - Poétique de la décroissance
2023
French edition
Mix
Contemporary art and degrowth.
Margaret de Asbaje - Court traité-poème de métaphysique moniste
2023
French edition
Mix
A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.
Charlotte Schaer - Vues prises à Romme
2023
no text
Mix
A visual attempt to index photographic images.
Fabien Vallos - Vues & données (essai)
2023
French edition
Mix
A reflection on the notions of catch and data.
Heinz Peter Knes - Correspondences
2023
English edition
Is-Land
In five chapters, the photographer reflects on the multiple "correspondences", influences and interactions at the heart of his artistic work.
Magali Brénon - Bonne Continuation
2023
French edition
Is-Land
The first book of drawings by writer Magali Brénon, a body of work developed over several years, between automatic drawing, collage, assemblage, illumination or graffiti, accompanying her daily life and her writing.
Eeva Siivonen - A rested development (CD)
2023
Squint.press
A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.
John Armleder - It Never Ends
2023
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Lenz Press
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
 Eva & Franco Mattes - Fukushima Texture Pack
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
This artist's book reflects Eva & Franco Mattes' continued interest in the condition of displacement to be sensed in Fukushima. Borrowing the format of wrapping-paper catalogs, it contains twenty large pre-perforated sheets, each of which features a photographic texture—a seamlessly repeating motif captured by the camera amid the radioactive ruins of the contaminated towns and countryside.
Diego Marcon - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
Diego Marcon - Glassa
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A polyphonic examination of the Italian artist's project for the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, the largest display of the artist Diego Marcon artworks in an Italian institution, reviewing some of the central themes of Diego Marcon’s research.
Lena Marie Emrich - The Darkest Corners
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
Tami Amit - Last Night I Met Snow White
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
First monograph dedicated to the pictorial work of Israeli artist Tami Amit.
Gabriel Orozco - Diario de Plantas (2 volumes)
2023
no text
Zolo Press
Diario de Plantas presents 724 drawings made by Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo and Acapulco on 33 notebooks between November 9, 2021, and April 20, 2022 (two volumes in one slipcase).
 ORLAN - Hibridaciones / Hybridizations
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.
Michel Gouéry - Les fossiles du futur
2023
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.
Art & Essai - 2014-2020
2023
French edition
Présent composé
This book documents six years of reflections and productions, that is to say the 47 exhibitions—dedicated to young emerging artists as well as to major actors of the French and international art scene—organized at the Galerie Art & Essai of the University Rennes 2 between 2014 and 2020 under the direction of John Cornu.
 eRikm - Douze horizons (book + CD)
2023
French edition
Ouïe/Dire
A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.
Pippa Garner - Act Like You Know Me
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bierke
The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
Bruno Fernandès - Dadakan ! - Nu intègre descendant les préjugés
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The life and work of the precursor of happening and streaking in Japan, Itoi Kanji (aka Dadakan, 1920-2021): the first comprehensive chrono-biographical study in Western language on the great Japanese Dadaist nudist ascetic, with a rare iconography.
Christine Bergé - L\'image en cours - Tarkovski Ristelhueber
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.
Roberto Barbanti - Les sonorités du monde - De l\'écologie sonore à l\'écosophie sonore
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
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