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Rashid Johnson - Reasons
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
GAMeC Books
sold out
The work of African-American artist Rashid Johnson is considered central in the contemporary debate revolving around the issues of identity, integration and memory. This exhibition catalogue showcases a series of his most iconic oeuvres to offer an intimate yet broad introduction to Johnson's artistic practice.
« L\'esprit d\'un temps » / » Zeitgeist «
2016
bilingual edition (German / French)
Archive Books
The publication sheds light on the 20-year history of the presence of French artists in Germany through the voices of selected representatives of the German art scene (on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Bureau des arts plastiques in Berlin).
Alexandra Croitoru - Brancusi - An Afterlife
2016
English edition
Archive Books
An analysis of the posthumous interpretations of Brancusi's life and work, and of the political use of the Romanian sculptor as a nationalist figure.
Luigi Comencini - Italia 1945-1948
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
50 black & white photographs of post-war Italy taken by director Luigi Comencini shortly before his debut behind the camera. With a series of writings establishing connections between his work as a photographer and his cinematographic oeuvre.
Body luggage - Migration of gestures
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
sold out
A collection of essays that imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the inalienable signs we carry with us, even if they are the only luggage we are able to carry. By placing history alongside artistic mutations, Body luggage asks questions of how avant-garde forms transmit or are provoked.
Francesc Ruiz - Fahrenheit 451\'s Comic
2016
no text
Captures - Artist's books
(last copies available!)
Reconstitution of a comic book appearing at the beginning of the film Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut. With this publication, Spanish artist Francesc Ruiz also questions the status of the comic book at the time the film was made and also within the dystopian universe originally created by Ray Bradbury.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Behavioral Objects I - A Case Study
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An introduction to the notion of behavioral object based upon a case study on three emblematic works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - I Want
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
I Want reviews the eponymous duo's double-projection film installation examining issues of gender, sexuality and performativity—and inspired by the words of punk poetess Kathy Acker and convicted whistle-blower Chelsea Manning.
Magali Reus - Spring for a Ground / Particle of Inch / Halted Paves / Quarters
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Publication documenting a series of sculptural works focusing on everyday items.
Anne Maurel - Avec ce qu\'il resterait à dire - Sur une figurine d\'Alberto Giacometti
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
This narrative looks back at the creation of a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti inspired by artist and model Isabel Nicholas. Featuring four photographs by Eli Lotar.
Katja Novitskova - Dawn Mission
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.
Karina Mendreczky - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.
Anastasiya Yarovenko - Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.
James Richards - Requests and Antisongs
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.
Irena Haiduk - Seductive Exacting Realism
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.
Angela Bulloch - Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Je descends la rue de Siam - Carnets sonores et photographiques
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
16.00 € 8.00 €
These notebooks gather texts and photographs documenting the creation process at the heart of Jean-Guy Coulange's radiophonic practice.
Hassan Khan - Twelve Clues
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.
Valeska Soares -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This first comprehensive monograph details over ten years of work by Brazilian, New York-based artist, Valeska Soares.
Paul Sietsema - Fifty-three Works
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first monograph to focus exclusively on Paul Sietsema's paintings and drawings.
Laure Prouvost - Hit Flash Back
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First publication ever to provide a complete survey of the artist's oeuvre to date: like Prouvost's art, the book is fast-paced and full of quick turns and surprises. It includes a series of essays, a conversation between the artist and her model Barbara Steveni, and a complete list of her works and exhibitions.
Petrit Halilaj - Space Shuttle in the Garden
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Catalogue analyzing the oeuvre of Kosovan artist Petrit Halilaj from multiple perspectives, through a selection of essays by Andrea Bagnato, Leonardo Bigazzi, Adrian Paci, and Roberta Tenconi.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Palais - Arts urbains
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Around the Palais de Tokyo's programme dedicated to urban art, Palais magazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street.
Jacqueline Challet-Haas - La Symbolisation du mouvement issue de la Cinétographie Laban
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
Jacqueline Challet-Haas - Movement Symbolisation Out of Kinetography Laban
2016
English edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
Nina Fuga - Pink Canyons
2016
no text
Bruno
This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.
Jérôme Bel - Emails 2009-2010
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The two dancers and choreographers share and compare ideas and references that underpin their respective work.
Keren Cytter - A-Z Life Coaching
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
Tirdad Zolghadr - Traction
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.
Wesley Willis - Trucks
2016
no text
Nieves
A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.
Francisco López - Anima Ardens (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.
Ping Zhu - Blackout
2016
no text
Bruno
An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.
 Rometti Costales - Blue has run
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
Jill Magid - The Proposal - Critical Spatial Practice 08
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.
Basim Magdy - Il n\'y aura pas d\'étoiles filantes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 € 3.00 €
Companion book to Basim Madgy's eponymous video: a dreamlike tale about the ocean and its secrets.
 Hastings of Malawi - Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.
Guillaume de Sardes - Beirut Round Trips
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Guillaume de Sardes - Retours à Beyrouth - Journal photographique
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Signature Strengths
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
Noé Soulier - Actions, mouvements et gestes
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Printed books
sold out
French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.
Art Diary - The World\'s Art Directory 2016-2017
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
sold out
The 2016-2017 edition of most complete paper pocket guide to the art world. A selection of art events, an art fairs agenda and listings from more than 50 countries.
Louis Reith - Décor (P, TG-AIH, TAHoS AE, PGaA ofUS, TF-OtHoJA, S:FaM)
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
This artist's book contains a collection of recent collages assembled from found book pages, in which the artist specifically seeks a relationship between the abstract and the figurative, and thereby creating new narratives.
 Blondes - Wade Guyton Kunsthalle Zurich (4 vinyl LP)
2016
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Recordings of musical performances by Blondes, James Campbell, and I.U.D, inspired by paintings shown at Wade Guyton's exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2013. Acting as a catalogue, this edition includes 4 vinyl LP and a modelling of the exhibition installation.
Espace art actuel - Faces
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.
Anton Bruhin -
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
Sylvain Menétrey - Semiospace - A Spaced Out Artistic Experiment
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
This publication is part of an artistic and performative project conceived by artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and critic Sylvain Menétrey. Part poetic neologism, part scientific concept, the semiospace, as a linguistic creation, seems to mirror Bidault-Waddington's practice—the creation of hybrid objects at once cognitive models borrowed from science, and exuberant fictions.
Judith Bernstein - Dicks of Death
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi (reference monograph).
Maria Bonomi - La dialectique - Limited edition
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Reference monograph: the illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, with an original xylograph, numbered and signed, entitled The Key.
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