Contemporary art

 
 
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
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Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Amelie von Wulffen - Some Watercolors
2023
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Nieves
In this small volume, normally-inanimate objects are brought to life by Amelie von Wulffen's paint brush, moving throughout this strange, surreal universe as if they were real people. The result is a series of darkly funny paintings that shed light on our own mundane realities.
Thus Waves Come in Pairs - Thinking with the Mediterraneans
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
By taking a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal as a point of departure and inspiration, this publication intends to collect interdisciplinary reflections around/about the Mediterraneans through art, oceanic thinking, science, and activism.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Quand l\'art sème en forêt (DVD)
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
The fruitful meeting of the rural world and contemporary art within the framework of the collective experiment led by an art center in the forest trails.
 Hippolyte Hentgen - Imagier
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A retrospective of thirteen years of image production by the artist duo Hippolyte Hentgen.
Kamel Mennour - Un goût parisien
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
currently out of stock
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
Erlea Maneros Zabala - The Voice of the Valley (2016-2022)
2023
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
Conceived as an artist's book, this monograph is the outcome of a collaboration between the Basque artist based in California Erlea Maneros Zabala and the American writer Dodie Bellamy.
Mousse - The Artist\'s Artist
2023
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
More a book than a magazine, Mousse #83 – The Artist's Artist is a special, collectible issue conceived as a small anthology of seven comprehensive monographs dedicated to influential, yet at times under-represented, artists who spearheaded the languages that are defining our age—the so-called artists' artists.
Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
Anouk Kruithof - Be Like Water
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph, bringing together for the first time a large selection of artworks made by Anouk Kruithof over twenty years (2002–23).
Dan Mitchell - Posters Flyers
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first book to bring together Dan Mitchell's complete posters and flyers.
Jeremy Deller - Art is Magic
2023
French edition
Frac Bretagne
First monograph in French: from Rod Stewart to the Industrial Revolution, Art is Magic collates all of acclaimed artist Jeremy Deller's cultural touchstones into one lovingly curated volume, balancing these artistic inspirations with examples of Deller's visionary work.
Lisa Ponti - Io sono un disegno
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The monograph dedicated to Italian artist, editor, critic and writer Lisa Ponti (1922–2019), daughter of the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti, who spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, constantly involved with the leading names of the Italian and international art scene.
Xavier Veilhan -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
An overview of Xavier Veilhan's recent production.
Haegue Yang - Mesmerizing Mesh - Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
New monograph, devoted to Haegue Yang's "Mesmerizing Mesh" series, which dwelves into "Sacred Paper Cutting", a Korean shamanastic ritual which has inspired many of her recent projects.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Michel Parmentier - Transatlantique
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Angel Vergara - We, the Works of Art
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
The most complete monograph devoted to the Belgian artist of Spanish origin, heir to Ensor, Broodthaers and Beuys.
Guillaume Maraud - Cultural Abolitionisms, 2021, 2023
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bauer Verlag
an essay that opposes the discourses of justification led by artists and other agents in the field of art with a materialist conception of the history of cultural institutions. The author argues for an abolitionist approach towards art institutions against more reformist, corporatist and formalist approaches of emancipation that still prevail in the art sector.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
 Big Tail Elephant - Build and Resist
2023
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A retrospective of the performances, photographs, installations and videos of the avant-garde collective that disrupted the Chinese cultural scene in the 1990s.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
Soldes
2023
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Frog
2023
texts in English and French
Frog
Twelve interviews (Sarah Morris, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Austin Eddy, Jameson Green, Sébastien Tellier & Xavier Veilhan, James Richards, Tursic & Mille...), a dozen exhibitions and places in images (Genesis Belanger, Julia Scher, Robert Longo, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Man Ray's studio, Sam McKinnis, William Morris. ..), texts and special projects by artists (Sarah Morris, Emma McIntyre, Pierre Charpin, Marina Faust on Pierre Klossovski's studio...), exhibition reviews and columns, over 300 pages.
Azimuts - Bale-bale
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The central theme of the 55th issue of the design research journal are the objects created by and for the organization and mobilization of communities.
Artforum - April 2023
2023
English edition
Artforum
Yve-Alain Bois on the Reina Sofía, Claire Bishop on information overload, Sung Tieu, Josh Kline, Aria Dean, Tarek Atoui...
Spike - Closed due to Colonialism, Elitism, and a Private Dinner – The Museum Issue
2023
English edition
Spike
Spike #75 fêtes the museum in all its stuffy, messy, showy, old-timey glory, as a home-away-from-home, the address of solace and astonishment. Featuring William Pope.L, Simon Wu, Louise Lawler, Ben Davis, Ann Demeester, Anthony Hudek, Meschac Gaba, Bernadette Van-Huy, Ghislaine Leung, Estelle Hoy, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, and many more. 
Mungo Thomson -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First comprehensive monograph, surveying three key series spanning Mungo Thomson's investigations into mass culture and everyday perceptual experience.
Dan Walsh - The Process of Painting
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersion in the creative process of the American painter.
Ana Jotta - Une Chambre en Ville
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
A guided tour to Ana Jotta's most immersive project.
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - Curating Capitalism - How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
How art and the artist inspire business: an examination of the origins of this relationship from Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol.
Mladen Stilinović - My sweet little lamb (Everything we see could also be otherwise) - Dedicated to Mladen Stilinović
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A "post-episode" of a series of curatorial projects based on the Kontakt Collection and dedicated to the artist Mladen Stilinović.
 Mochu - Bezoar Delinqxenz
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pidginization as Curatorial Method - Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
In this compelling rethinking of curatorial practice, renowned museum director, curator, and writer Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung proposes that Pidgin languages and pidginization as a mode of being and doing offer a decolonialized reinvention of communicative practices.
 Hastings of Malawi - Choreological Exchanges (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
Recorded at the height of the global pandemic, and at a time when remote communication was becoming increasingly prevalent, "Choreological Exchanges" is part of Hastings Of Malawi's continuing investigations into the medium of communication itself.
Robin Watkins - Eusociality in the EU
2023
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
A collaboration between Otto (10) and Robin (42).
Candice Lin - Pigs & Poison
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Hélio Oiticica - Parangolé - Between Revolt and Poetry
2023
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference trilingual monograph / a conceptual art's discourse around Hélio Oiticica's parangolés.
Elizabeth Price - Sound of the Break
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue accompanies the eponymous Turner Prize winner's extensive solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, presenting both new works and works shown in Germany for the first time.
Giovanna Silva - Black Coffee No Sugar - Genoa
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.
Latifa Echakhch - The Concert
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Records
A vinyl release composed by Alexandre Babel in close collaboration with artist Latifa Echakhch, featuring significant contributions from the Berlin based musicians Rebecca Lenton, Theo Nabicht, Jon Heilbron and Nikki Schlierf. The record is meant to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Swiss pavilion of the 59th Venice Art Biennale.
Heads Together - Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
The Mediterranean - A Round Sea
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
currently out of stock
A body of essays and artworks, edited by Marina Folkidis, about artistic production in the Mediterranean terroir.
Luca Trevisani - Walking loaves
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
An artist book by Luca Trevisani, overwriting in the mode of a palimpsest Piero Camporesi's Bread of Dreams, an Italian cult classic of "food" anthropology.
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