Art & humor / derision

First survey monograph: hovering between painting, sculpture, and installation, Comte's works are based on references to popular culture—including cartoons as well as vernacular handicrafts—nature, heraldic symbols, and art historical movements (Op art, Pop art, Neo-Geo, Concrete art).

The visual iconography of Scotland transformed by Parr into the outlandish and unfamiliar.

Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.

The new edition of a 1972 publication gathering a series of drawings and texts by Roland Topor in collaboration with his five-year-old son Nicolas.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.

Following the artists' previous series of life-size puppets in Die Schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, this new publication presents a collection of one hundred sixty-four small puppets, each having a unique look.

Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.

Retrospective catalogue (new edition).

Creating Bob: a food truck with a living, warm and hospitable public purpose, set close to Lille-Europe Train Station and commissioned as part of the “New Patrons” program.

Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings.

An overview of Camille Laurelli's humoristic and provocative work in all its diversity: photographs, pen and felt pen drawings, prints, screenshots, commissioned texts by her mother or a fictional art critic, viral videos, ready-made, website comments, found objects…

A set of charades invented by Alain Séchas and illustrated with original drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

This reader is the result of a series of public events, performances, and workshops which examined performative patterns and subvertive power in comedic and cartoonist practices.

New monograph.

First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.

First monograph.

The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.

A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.

Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!

This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.

This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.

The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.

Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.

Mohamed Bourouissa, Richard Jackson, Martin Kersels, Paul McCarthy, Stéphane Maupin, Richard Prince, Rudy Ricciotti, Alain Séchas, Georges Tony Stoll, Rirkrit Tiravanija...

A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.

Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.

Featuring: Jeremy Rifkin, Sabine Rabourdin, Mounir Fatmi, Tidiane N'diaye, Arthur H & Loulou Picasso, Messieurs Delmotte, Tobie Nathan, Jean-Paul Curnier, Anaïs Nony, N.-.D.-des-Landes, Zapata an the state of Chiapas, Papuan people, original comics from Camille Lavaud, Martes Bathori, Philippe Lardy...

Following on from the duo's continual playful and dystopic depiction of the human condition, Fine Arts brings together the collection of over ninety watercolors inspired by images found on the Internet.

Part document, part photographic album, this artists' book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.

Dector & Dupuy's artistic research focuses on the city as a space for improvisation and vanishing lines. This retrospective monograph listed in alphabetical order comes with an additional publication—the first issue of the duo's periodic SONG.

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

New monograph.

First monograph: an overview of the evolution of New York-based artist Michael Williams' work.

This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.

Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.

A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.

Fines as an artistic medium: Stefan Marx illustrates the monetary penalties collected by Christoph Keller for its activity as a distiller.

Comprehensive monograph (second edition).

A previously unpublished series of photographs taken in 1989 in Arles and Paris, retouched by Boris Mikhailov 26 years later, offering a fresh perspective on his work.

Artist's book.

Drawings.

First monograph.

The first survey of the Swiss and Danish duo's works from 2010 to 2014.

CvB Singles Uptown Remix presents a survey of work created since 2000—rags, mushrooms, a “soft” fence, an enormous octopus and other curious objects from Cosima's diverse oeuvre.

Nelly Ben Hayoun, Davide Cascio, Claude Closky, Denicolai & Provoost, Mark Dion, Shirley Jaffe, Daniel Johnston, Pierre La Police, Natacha Lesueur, Théo Mercier, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Amandine Urruty...

Limited edition accompanied by an original and unique signed artwork, hand colored comic strip box.

Willem's satirical drawings on art.

Does Mona Lisa deserve her mustache? An erudite review of 180 pre- and post-Duchamp caricatures and misappropriations.