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Danh Vo -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
currently out of stock
Designed under the direction of the artist, this monograph is devoted to Danh Vo's in situ installation at the CAPC museum, through which the conceptual artist explores the relationship between individual and collective history, and the notions of power and masculinity.
Yann Gerstberger - Baby Comet Face
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
sold out
This monograph provides an exhaustive look at the practice of Yann Gerstberger, a French artist exiled in Mexico, whose work is deeply rooted in Mexican popular culture and pre-Columbian mythologies. The publication gathers series of works (sketches, photocopies, neon paper drawings and collages, tapestries), two essays, and poems by Gabriela Jauregui. The edition features an annex booklet devoted to exhibition views.
Michael Snow - The Last LP (vinyl LP)
2019
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Michael Snow's The Last LP is an extraordinary collection of tracks “of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world” that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself.
Neural - Speculative Pink
2019
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Cornelia Sollfrank, Lílian Campesato, Hyphen-Labs, Faith Holland, Mary Flanagan, Spideralex, Linda O'Keeff; Sonic Territories, monumental loudspeakers to the people; books, DVDs and CDs reviews...
Artforum - February 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
Jeffrey Weiss, Carolee Schneemann, and Simone Forti on the passing of Robert Morris, editor Lauren O'Neill Butler on the art of fierce pussy, Wayne Koestenbaum on the art of David Gilbert, a special dispatch from Thailand by David Teh, plus exhibition reviews from Paris, Berlin, Prague, Zurich, New York, and more.
Samuel Étienne - Bricolage Radical - Génie et  banalité des fanzines do-it-yourself – Tome 2
2019
French edition
Strandflat
A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.
Heinz Peter Knes - Der weltrevolutionäre Prozess seit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bis in die Gegenwart
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book, based on Peter Voigt and Arno Fischer's project developed for the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin.
Florence Lazar - You Think The Earth Is A Dead Thing… It\'s So Much More Convenient! Dead, We Thus Trample On It…
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition by Florence Lazar at the Jeu de Paume. It is also her first monograph.
Julie Béna - Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Part of The New Sanctuary, the Satellite Programme 12 devised by Laura Herman for the Jeu de Paume and the CAPC, Anna & the Jester in Window of Opportunity is published in conjunction with the exhibition of work by Julie Béna, which takes the form of an architectural tale.
Francisco Tropa - La Moustache cachée dans la barbe
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A publication conceived by Portugese artist Francisco Tropa in collaboration with writer Thomas Boutoux and graphic designer Pedro Falcão, which adopts the form of magazine one flips  through in bars or in waiting rooms. A true/false weekly style magazine with refined imagery printed on glossy paper, The Mustache Hidden in the Beard is dedicated to cultural and scientific topics, design, life styles but also real estate through a series of cutting, quirky articles, investigations, portraits and reports.
Lauren Huret - Praying for my Haters
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
(last copies available!)
Artist's book with which Lauren Huret looks at the question of erasing images on the Internet.
Elena Reygadas - Rosetta
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The first book by Elena Reygadas, Latin America's Best Female Chef, is more than a cookbook.
Spike - It\'s magic!
2019
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
Spike Art Magazine #58 (“The Magic Issue”) inaugurates a new formula all in English.
Dorothy Iannone - A CookBook
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The long-awaited facsimile publication of Dorothy Iannone's 1969 cookbook.
Uriel Orlow - Soil Affinities
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
Soil Affinities explores the connections of (post)colonial history and the movement of plants for agriculture, from Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, to formerly French West Africa (Mali and Senegal). This publication and Uriel Orlow's eponymous project retrace the lines and networks of earthly connections between plants and humans through images, maps, texts, and interviews conducted in France, Senegal, and Mali over the span of two years.
David Horvitz - When The Ocean Sounds
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
A score for 51 human voices intended to mimic the sound of the sea, displayed as loose sheets slipped in PVC sleeve. David Horvitz's hommage to Pauline Oliveros.
Jacopo Benassi - Bologna Portraits
2019
English edition
Damiani - Photography
sold out
One of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today.
Alastair Brotchie - Alfred Jarry - Une vie pataphysique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A biography of the founder of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie.
Estelle Zhong Mengual - L\'art en commun - Réinventer les formes du collectif en contexte démocratique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.
Giorgio Wolfensberger - Foto Povera
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the artistic freelance photography of industrial photographer and filmmaker Giorgio Wolfensberger (1945-2016). Beginning with the black-and-white documentary photography of his first years, the publication then documents a rich body of colorful photographs depicting with humor, the strangeness of everyday life and its objects.
Anna-Eva Bergman - Casseroles - Recettes du monde entier
2019
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
sold out
Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.
 eRikm - Albédo (vinyl LP + CD)
2019
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
A sound dialogue between eRikM and Anthony Pateras.
Fabienne Radi - Quarante et un titres autrement
2019
French edition
Lendroit éditions
This artist's book assembles 41 titles of literary works, transcribed in homophonic translation. An exercise in concrete poetry, stemming from the Oulipo tradition. To be seen as much as read.
Luigi Ghirri - The Map and the Territory - Exhibition portfolio
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
sold out
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume.
 Line Faden-Babin & Jakob Rachmanski - Kierkegaard and the Mermaid
2019
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Once upon a time, in a coral palace at the bottom of the sea, hidden from human eyes, there lived a princess with a fish's tail. Her parents adored her, and she was engaged to the most tender and beautiful of all the mermen, and she could have been the happiest of all the mermaids. But the little princess was desperately unhappy… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Gabriele Basilico - Free Zone 2006
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In 2006, film director Amos Gitai invited Gabriele Basilico to undertake a journey retracing the locations of the shooting of Gitai's film Free Zone, on the demilitarized zone between Israel and Jordan. This publication follows this unique photographic project.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Gabon 1977 - Un Don Juan chez les gendarmes
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
This publication presents a comic strip made by a 20-year old Nathalie Du Pasquier in remembrance of a six months journey in Gabon. Inspired by a clipping from a Gabonese daily, the cartoon tells the colorful story of a clumsy Don Giovanni. This edition features an introductory text by the artist, the translated strip, and a facsimile of the comic book in original French version.
Ayla Hibri - A Palm Tree Bows To The Moon
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
60 black and white photos taken in Lebanon, accompanied by poems by the artist.
Film in the Present Tense - Why can\'t we stop talking about analogue film?
2018
English edition
Archive Books
A contemporary discussion around the use, value and purpose of analogue film.
Linda Fregni Nagler - Yama no Shashin
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication presents a project by Linda Fregni Nagler about the photographic “School of Yokohama”, which emerged during the Meiji era in Japan. Over the past ten years, the artist has collected hand-colored photographs of this period representing Mount Fuji. She re-photographed them, printed them and colored them by hand, according to colorization method of that time.
 Syndicat - Proof
2018
no text
Empire - Books
A visual archive of the Islamic State's destruction of artifacts.
Alfredo Volpi - The Poetics of Colour
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the first international retrospective dedicated to Brazilian-Italian painter Alfredo Volpi: a thorough exploration in words and images of the painter's peculiar life and career—from the bounds and relationships with the Brazilian art community, to his special link to the city of São Paulo and his adopted country, leading to the development of his unique artistic language.
Hu Xiaoyuan - States of Tension
2018
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
Monograph on the work of Chinese artist Hu Xiaoyuan, featuring an essay by Nicolas Bourriaud and a conversation between Gea Politi and the artist.
Julien Carreyn - Les rendez-vous de l\'écluse
2018
no text
Shelter Press - Books
Polaroid works.
Low Form - Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
currently out of stock
This catalogue presents an exploration of artistic imaginaries in the age of artificial intelligence. A series of essays examine these new aesthetics through various historical, contemporary and conceptual perspectives. The publication also includes a series of projects by artists such as Ian Cheng, Cécile B. Evans, Avery K Singer, Luca Trevisani…
Dirk Zoete - To Be Determined. According to the Situation
2018
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This catalogue aims to document the creative process behind Zoete's work, starting from preliminary drawings to the completion of his models, sculptures, and architectural constructions. Essays and iconography offer a complete exploration of the Belgian's practice, which builds on the legacies of the German Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism.
Charlemagne Palestine - Dinggg Donggg Dinggg Vs Singgg Songg Singgg - Limited Artist Edition (vinyl LP + 7\'\')
2018
Matière Mémoire
(last copies available!)
Singing songs while playing ding dongs, Charlemagne Palestine's solo voice over the bells of his studio carillon is a premiere in his recorded works, and possibly the first voice/carillon record in musical history. All the little shamanic stuffed deities inhabiting the carillon added their souls to the spirit of the reverberating songs, including a song in memory of Mika Vainio. This Artist Edition includes an additional 7" record, engraved with an exclusive track on one side and etched with a Charlemagne Palestine drawing on the other.
Charlemagne Palestine - Dinggg Donggg Dinggg Vs Singgg Songg Singgg (vinyl LP)
2018
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
Singing songs while playing ding dongs, Charlemagne Palestine's solo voice over the bells of his studio carillon is a premiere in his recorded works, and possibly the first voice/carillon record in musical history. All the little shamanic stuffed deities inhabiting the carillon added their souls to the spirit of the reverberating songs, including a song in memory of Mika Vainio.
Geoff McFetridge - Coming Back is Half the Trip
2018
no text
Nieves
sold out
Studies for paintings and sculptures.
Lukas Wassmann - W
2018
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Monograph showcasing 18 years of practice by the Swiss photographer. Alternating snapshots, self-portraits, documentary and fashion photography, pictures of arranged landscapes, buildings, people, and furniture, this publication provides a wide overview of Wassmann's artistic approach through associative sequences weaving on a loose narrative, like a stream of consciousness.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes - Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An architectural exploration of haunted locations in Singapore.
Giasco Bertoli - Tennis Courts III
2018
no text
Nieves
Tennis Courts III completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.
Bernard Joubert - Elvifrance - L\'infernal éditeur
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
sold out
This graphic anthology is dedicated to Elvifrance, the scandalous French publisher of erotic comic books whose catalogue was under the fierce scrutiny of French censorship authorities from the 1970s to the 1990s. The publication takes a look back at this infamous history through many unpublished archives and a wide selection of covers. It also features an ensemble of covers revisited by some forty contemporary graphic artists.
Félicia Atkinson - Limpid as the Solitudes (vinyl LP)
2018
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
Félicia Atkinson and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma have thought of this new collaboration as a series of soundscapes filled with literary and cinematographic references, from Sylvia Plath's poetry to the films of Hal Hartley and Wong Kar Wai. The album carries a strange echo of the 1990s, materialized in Julien Carreyn's cover photograph.
Tadashi Kawamata - Over Flow
2018
English edition
Mennour
This catalogue focuses on an immersive one-year project in Portugal, centered around questions of global ecology and tourism. Kawamata's large scale installation integrates both plastic residues and abandoned boats collected on Portugal's shores during beach cleaning campaigns. The publication features a text by the artist, exhibition views, and a section documenting related projects made by Kawamata throughout his career.
Erik Dietman - Erik Dietman - La Verticale (Millésimes 1962 à 2001)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Collection of essays by Nicolas Bourriaud on the protean, poetic and Rabelaisian Swedish artist Erik Dietman.
Fredrik Værslev - Fredrik Værslev as I Imagine Him
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This comprehensive monograph offers an overview of the artist's oeuvre from the last decade. It brings together essays which explore Værslev's relationship to the history of painting and suburban architecture and culture, as well as his artistic process.
Artforum - December 2018 – The Year in Review
2018
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2018: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world—Kerry James Marshall, Johanna Fateman, Helen Molesworth, Douglas Crimp, Eungie Joo, Jack Bankowsky, David Rimanelli, Catherine Wood, Caroline Busta, Lanka Tattersall, Harry Cooper, Pauline Yao, and Claire Tancons—take stock of the year in art. 38 artists from around the world choose the most striking work, event, or exhibition of the year with responses from Kerry James Marshall, Barbara Kreuger, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and more. Plus, Top Tens on the best in film, music, books, and performance from John Waters, Vaginal Davis, and Melissa Anderson, and a special section on “The Year In Monsters.
Maren Karlson - Girl
2018
no text
Nieves
A series of hallucinatory illustrations inspired by psychedelic art and the darkest side of fairy tales.
 Hodel / Schumacher / Clavadetscher - Luftbad
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A selection of about 2.000 mail art works on paper (drawings, collages…) created between 1991-1994 by the artists' trio. They would mail each other pictures, repeatedly overpainting and adding to them until they comprised several layers. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by Eric Schumacher and Andrea Clavadetscher.
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