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Maxime Duveau - Renewal - Récit de Didier Balducci
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Hippocampe - Books
12.00 € 6.00 €
A series of drawings that retrace a trip to California, where the multiplied and labyrinthine architecture invites the visitor to wander between reality and fiction.
Peter Friedl - Rehousing
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”
Christian Rosset - Le Dissident secret - Un portrait de Claude Ollier
2020
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
16.00 € 8.00 €
A portrait of Claude Ollier (1922-2014), writer of the Nouveau Roman, where memories, reflections, hypotheses and descriptions are intertwined, with a notebook of photographs composed by Camille Rosset.
Janek Simon - Synthetic Folklore
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This monographic catalogue maps and decodes fifteen years of an artistic practice oriented towards DIY strategies and new technologies, investigating manifold spaces of reflections with a powerful political and theoretical radicality.
Želimir Žilnik - Shadow Citizens
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An insight into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of Serbian filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.
Prefaces to a book for a Syrian museum
2020
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
sold out
The republishing, in the form of a palimpsest, of the prefaces published in the various editions of the catalogue of the Damascus National Museum, from 1919 to the end of the last century.
Charlemagne Palestine - P V T (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.
Jacques Berthet - Rumeur sur la ville
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.
Giovanna Silva - UN
2020
English edition
Bruno
sold out
A photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva.
Stephen Barber - The Projectionists - Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
This publication explores the pioneering role of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge in the development of moving-image projection. The study also maps the exceptional influence of his experiments on contemporary world's visual form.
Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead - Featuring David Toop, 
DJ Spooky, 
Lee Ranaldo, 
Calla & 
CM von Hausswolff (vinyl LP)
2020
Sub Rosa
Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.
Roee Rosen - Desire and Dust
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
Angela Marzullo - L\'origine
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Artist's book stemming from a performance by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the female sex (limited edition).
Minor Cinema - Experimental Film in Switzerland
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
Espace art actuel - Dictatorships
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Espace art actuel
Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.
Martin Herbert - Unfold This Moment - The Art of Carol Bove
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
20.00 € 10.00 €
An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
 Huber.Huber - Widersprüchliche Bewegungsreize / Contradictory Motion Cues
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Edition Patrick Frey
A new artist's book that goes far beyond the mere reproduction of photographs and masterfully reflects huber.huber's artistic practices in the special medium of the book.
 Cog•nate Collective - Regionalia
2020
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
First monograph.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Pamphlet 1 - Ceux qui sont morts ne sont jamais partis – La préservation de la suprématie, du Musée ethnologique et les complexités du Forum Humboldt
2020
French edition
Archive Books
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Géraldine Gourbe - To Sustain The Vision
2020
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
Géraldine Gourbe - To Sustain The Vision
2020
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
Federico Pepe - Coco 7 - Stillleben (box set)
2020
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
A limited-edition box set documenting the seventh and penultimate episode of COCO, the project that brings together video art and music by artist and designer Federico Pepe and artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi.
Federico Pepe - Mission Aborted
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Gathering found visual material, this publication retraces the story of an artistic failure: that of a joint project by Federico Pepe and his father Antonio, a cabinet of curiosities featuring latex sculptures of fetuses looking like Mickey Mouse.
Raymond Pettibon - Selected Works From 1982 To 2011
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
An anthology of Pettibon's drawings.
Dominique Grimaud - 19 Feedbacks (vinyl LP)
2020
Discrepant
Dominique Grimaud makes you listen to the The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and many more artists from the 1960s, like you never hear before.
Bernard Fort - FRACTALS / Brain Fever (vinyl LP)
2020
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
currently out of stock
A highly psychedelic electroacoustic piece from 1981 built on fractal patterns in the studios of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon, and another one composed almost four decades later, based on birdsong and forest sounds.
Andreas Sell - From self-employment to employment
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This diary traces the artist's journey in search of a permanent job, combining notes and visual documents. The publication is the second in a series of autobiographical narratives by Sell.
 Yuya Tsukahara + contact Gonzo - Transphère - Watching you surf on beautiful accidents
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 € 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
Neo Geography
2020
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Publication based on the eponymous exhibitions organized at CAN, Neuchâtel, and Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, bringing together the works of six Swiss and Korean artists, as well as new texts by Korean curators and theoreticians.
Dash Snow - Selected Works From 2001 To 2009
2020
no text
Nieves
This Zine contains a selection of Dash Snow's critical Dada-esque collages, which range from cum-glittered tabloid covers starring Saddam Hussein to straight text pieces to sculptural works composed of items like books and skeletal fragments; and a smattering of the photographs and Polaroids that originally made Snow famous outside of street art culture, where he began writing graffiti.
Neural - Redirecting Networks
2020
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Rachel O'Dwyer; interviews with Kyriaki Goni, Tiziana Terranova, Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis De Bel, Tim Shaw, Surya Mattu; Dreaming otherwise: the past and future of community wireless networks; We Organise You Music, So You Don't Have To; reports: FAEN 2019, Mud Muses, Nam June Paik exhibition...
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun (vinyl LP)
2020
Shelter Press - Records
Springing from a decades deep body of work, defined by a rigorously singular and adventurous approach to sound, cellist, composer, and improvisor Okkyung Lee returns with Yeo-Neun, her first outing with Shelter Press, and arguably her most groundbreaking and unexpected album to date.
Nick Mauss - Treatise on the Veil
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This artist's book / leporello gathers reproductions of artworks from the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig, drawing out re­s­o­nances be­tween the dis­parate works.
Jack Pierson - Tomorrow\'s Man 5
2020
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The fifth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
Laurence Rassel - Ce que Laurence Rassel nous fait faire
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A book of interviews with the curator and pedagogue Laurence Rassel, who develops in thought and action ways to remedy what ruins relationships and hinders emancipation.
Faire – To look at things - Artists Posters
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold (Syndicat) invited Aurélien Mole, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Mathias Augustyniak (M/M Paris) and Thierry Chancogne to express their views on art posters, artist posters, posters made by artists, posters made with artists, posters made for artists, and the occasional participation of graphic designers (special issue of the critical review dedicated to graphic design).
Faire – To look at things - Volume 06 (#19, 20, 21)
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
(last copies available!)
Issues 19 to 21 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Clara Schulmann - Zizanies
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
Encircling the Image of Trauma
2020
English edition
Archive Books
This book tiptoes between aesthetics and ethics; it proposes to rethink trauma in its necessity as well as impossibility to be represented and understood.
Naama Tsabar - (Opus 1)
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Monographic catalogue: for more than a decade, Israeli installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar subverts the gender roles associated with art and music, with a particular emphasis on rock'n'roll.
Site Read - Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This anthology gives voice to seven curators who discuss the conception of shows they organized that marked curatorial history thanks to their structural innovation in terms of exhibition siting.
Crack Up – Crack Down - The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by art collective Slavs and Tatars, examines the relationship between graphic arts and satire.
Sonia Leimer - Via San Gennaro
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New catalogue.
Kris Lemsalu - Hi and Bye - The Estonian Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
David Maroto - The Artist\'s Novel - Part 2 – The Fantasy of the Novel
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Second volume of a publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this metafiction follows a detective investigating the conditions of production of a novel within an artistic framework.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané - The Spiral Forest
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue documents a project for which Steegmann Mangrané intends to reframe the history of abstraction, inviting us to re-evaluate the traditional division between nature and culture. It features a selection of works inspired by the artist's readings, from Roger Caillois to Merleau-Ponty.
Plasticity of the Planet - On Environmental Challenge for Art and Its Institutions
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine Malabou.
Cathy Josefowitz -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.
Robert Morris - The Perceiving Body
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMC+ (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole) - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Retrospective catalogue spanning Morris's early years, covering the 1960s and 1970s through a selection of works, historical essays, interviews with collaborators, and texts by the artist.
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