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Sam Falls - The Four Seasons Forever
2015
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).
Towards Visibility - Exhibiting Contemporary Drawing – 1964-1980
2015
English edition
Roven - books
An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.
Vers le visible - Exposer le dessin contemporain – 1964-1980
2015
French edition
Roven - books
An historical study on the legitimation process of drawing in contemporary art and curatorial practices.
Hybridize or Disappear
2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A look at contemporary visual culture and how it has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries (catalogue).
Espace art actuel - Migrations-Borders
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 2
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A running-headline tale featuring, in order of appearance: Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, Michael Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Jenna Young, Victoria Beckham, Sheila Weller, Mark Seal, Eleanor Schiralli, Bernard Madoff, Rich Cohen, Jessica Simpson, Lance Armstrong, Ed Ruscha, Sam Ricci, Chris Reinhardt, Suri Cruise, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mickey Rourke, Pierre Hardy, Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec, J.J. Abrams, Jill Stempel, John Anderton...
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 1 + 2 (special offer)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
24.00 € 19.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the 2 volumes of Pierre Denan's Pourquoi Tom Cruise – Récit prompteur.
Marc-Antoine Fehr - Point de fuite
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Reference monograph dedicated to Marc-Antoine Fehr's paintings whose strangeness recall the absurd universes of Beckett and Kafka.
Stefan Banz - Louis Michel Eilshemius - Peer of Poet-Painters
2015
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.
 eRikm - L\'art de la fuite (vinyl LP)
2015
Sonoris
L'art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist / improviser / composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.
Joji Koyama - Plassein
2015
no text
Toupée
25.00 € 15.00 €
A series of short visual stories designed with refinement by Japanese artist Koyama, whose subtle's pencil stroke, narrative use of geometric forms and application to render textures contributed to build a most fascinating artist's book.
Alex Hubbard - Eat Your Friends
2015
English edition
DoPe Press
Alex Hubbard's first comprehensive monograph, Eat Your Friends is also an artist's book.
 Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho - News from Nowhere - Zurich Laboratory
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon & Jeon's collaborative project “News from Nowhere” premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable.
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged.
Matthieu Laurette - Random (Demix) - Limited edition
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artist's book based on excerpts and quotes from Matthieu Laurette's interviews, randomly arranged, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
(last copies available!)
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
Eric Mindling - Fire and Clay - The Art of Oaxacan Pottery
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Eric Mindling, a self-defined potterologist has explored Oaxaca and its 70 plus pottery villages for more than twenty years. This experience has become Fire and Clay – The Art of Oaxacan Pottery, a panoramic vision of the past, present and future of Oaxacan pottery.
Toilet Paper - Volume II
2015
English edition
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Second volume of the Toilet Paper book, gathering all of the images published in the last six issues of the magazine, also including a significant portion of previously unpublished images.
Maya Schweizer - Lieux de Mémoire and Desire
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Five cinematic works examining how the artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
E Il Topo
2015
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's magazine.
Jens Hoffmann - Theater of Exhibitions
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
Gil Pellaton - Triple Man
2015
no text
various
A new series of oil paintings by Swiss artist which unveils the strange and wonderful aspects of common life.
Toilet Paper - Kenzine #4
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29.00 € 22.00 €
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
sold out
The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
Mario Bellini - USA 1972
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
sold out
Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Susanne M. Winterling -
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Light, skin, titan and body-consciousness to navigate between shelter and space: this artist's book shows collages of objects layered around in life size, then spreads out into the book space and installation works using photography and film.
Sébastien Roux - Issues (vinyl LP)
2015
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.
Per-Oskar Leu - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Mike Bouchet - Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
New monograph.
Luca Trevisani - Grand Hotel et des Palmes
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
sold out
Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - Haussmann für Weinberg
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Tombeau - Autour des œuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Drawing relations between writers' quotes and the works of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (with a text by Benoît Viguier).
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Descartes\' Daughter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
Henning Bohl - Fatal Kadath Fatal
2015
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A sequel to Kadath Fatal: drawings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (artist's book).
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Bob Nickas - 69 / 96
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme - Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth conservé au Frac Bretagne
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.
Cameron Jamie - Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
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