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Vision in Motion - Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
Artforum - June-July-August 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.
Female Chic
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.
 Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin - Je suis du bord
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 € 3.00 €
Documenting a video installation addressing the consequences of historical sea travel.
Le Dictateur - FAQ
2016
no text
Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Toilet Paper
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ fan)
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!
Josephine Meckseper - 10 minutes after
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
I Marziani - Drawing in Italian XX century Art
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
I Marziani discovers and reconsiders certain chapters of Italian art history from the last century through works on paper (most of which have never been shown in museums) from the angle of new visual and intellectual intersections.
Matt Mullican - Peep-Hole Sheet - Details from Heaven and Hell
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Details from Heaven and Hell is the new chapter of Matt Mullican's cosmology, whose first models dates from 1973, and has evolved over the years and materialized in various media and performances.
Manfred Pernice -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This monographic catalogue focuses on the artist's ongoing Kassetten (cassettes) series, initially begun in 2012. Spanning back to 1996, the book features abundant documentation of the various manifestations of the works, visual references, and other recent sculptures as well as texts by Lulu co-founder Chris Sharp.
Agnes Denes - Work - 1969-2013
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The reference monograph on the work of artist Agnes Denes, this profusely illustrated book aslo gathers an extensive selection of the artist's texts and manifestos.
Espace art actuel - Fetishes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
Françoise Armengaud - Wittgenstein\'s Rhinoceros
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
1914. Europe is at war. The experts on deciphering code and secret writing are wild with excitement: What in the world can be the meaning of those incomprehensible notes scribbled by secret agent Ludwig Wittgenstein? The young scholar himself is unable to help them—he is hunting a wild beast, a figure of dubious existence… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Nina Canell - Satin Ions / 새틴 이온
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
Urs Leimgruber - Listening - Carnet de route LDP 2015
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Lenka lente
sold out
In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.
Jacopo Benassi - Morte a Venezia
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
The nocturnal strolls of the Italian photographer in the empty streets of Venice
Laurent Moreau - Professor Kant\'s Incredible Day
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What's for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk—and everything goes off the rails… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Maria-Mercè Marçal - Tanières de lunes
2016
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
First French translation of Cau de llunes, a collection of poems written after Franco's death by one of the major voices of Catalan poetry, female poet Maria-Mercè Marçal.
Félicia Atkinson - Comme un seul narcisse (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 1
2016
no text
Editions Lutanie
Artist's book by French filmmaker Virgil Vernier, Arcana I is the first of a series of books designed to build up an archive of the present time through a collection of emblematic documents from the 21st century produced by media, advertising and Internet. Arcana I gathers images of luxury watches cut out from magazines, with no typographical mention so to reveal the peculiar aura of these objects.
Side Effects
2016
trilingual edition (English / Estonian / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Side Effects follows an international artistic exchange born from questioning the “sides effects” of artistic activity—sideline jobs, multiple works, choice, accident. This hybrid publication contains archives, photographs, notes and drawings as well as texts, interviews and images from art historians, sociologists, critics and artists.
Mette Winckelmann - Welcome Hand
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
Artforum - May 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Special section “The New Look: Art and Fashion Photography” featuring Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Heji Shin, Petra Collins, Laurie Simmons, among others, Summer 2016 Previews of 45 shows worldwide, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Rivette, Rhea Anastasia at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, A Cinema of Resistance: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Hulet, Brian Dillon on Yan Xing, plus exhibition reviews from New York, Chicago, Cologne, Warsaw, Auckland, Sao Paolo, and more.
 Bulbs - Color Attic (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
16.00 € 12.00 €
The first album in eight years for the Angelenos duo starring former Axolotl drummer William Sabiston and guitarist Jon Almaraz.
Félicia Atkinson - Animals
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.
Roee Rosen - The Blind Merchant - 1989-1991
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An artist book juxtaposing text and image, history and its revision, The Blind Merchant provides the reader with alternative written and drawn narratives to Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice adopting the point of view of Jewish moneylender Shylock.
Matteo Callegari -
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication explores the painting practice of New York-based, Italian-born artist Matteo Callegari.
Simon Starling - A–Z
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A pocket, non illustrated mid-career catalogue raisonné of a practice now spanning over two decades.
Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
Shirana Shahbazi - Tehran North
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Shirana Shahbazi's photo-project Tehran North is a subjective road movie captured from a car driving through the Iranian capital at night, offering a black and white kaleidoscopic vision of Tehran's urban landscape (artist's book).
Elio Montanari - Quis Erudiet Without Documenta
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
For nearly thirty years, Elio Montanari has been photographing artists at work—either producing or installing their artworks in the context of major exhibitions and international events. The photographs reproduced within this publication capture with full spontaneity the working process involving artists, assistants, curators and peers.
Andrew Berardini - Relics
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Andrew Berardini journeys into the heart of the work of conceptual artist Danh Vo to discover how historical forces find form in our individual lives.
Giorgio Griffa - Works on Paper
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Devoted to the graphic practice of the artist, Giorgio Griffa – Works on Paper points up the singularity and importance of drawing in Griffa's creative process while introducing a rare selection of drawings and watercolours.
Edgardo Aragón - Mésoamérique - L\'effet ouragan
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 € 3.00 €
The genesis and documentation of a video and mapping project on the detrimental effects of foreign authorities' actions in past and present Mexico.
Dorothy Iannone - A Fluxus Essay (book / CD)
2016
English edition
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
Dorothy Iannone tells her Fluxus Story in a Berlin recording from 1979.
Dorothy Iannone - Ewig Grün (vinyl LP)
2016
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - Ceci n\'est pas un magazine
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Figures
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.
Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - This is not a magazine
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
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.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings 16
2016
English edition
various
A series of paintings by Swiss artist Emil Michael Klein.
Bernard Villers - Les Éditions du Nouveau Remorqueur - Catalogue raisonné
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).
ECAL - Graphic Design
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.
Lara Almarcegui - Luxembourg souterrain
2016
French edition
Casino Luxembourg
Luxembourg underground: this artist's book offers a vertical journey through the city's subsoil structure.
Artforum - April 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Richard Serra, Mary Heilmann and Terry Winters on Ellsworth Kelly, Thomas Eggerer on Monika Baer, Douglas Crimp talks with Thomas Beard about “Queer Cinema before Stonewall,” Maggie Lee on her video Mommy, sex and art from Fragonard to Manet, Claire Bishop on Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and exhibition reviews from Los Angeles, London, Düsseldorf, Paris, Beirut, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, and more.
Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Guan Xiao - Prévisions météo
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 € 3.00 €
The starting point of this publication and of the work it accompanies is travel, and more specifically, the wave of new perceptions that travel brings and the transformation that it causes. Artist Guan Xiao compares the volatility of this process with the fluctuation of the weather.
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
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