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Nicolas Faure - The Order of Things
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
The Order of Things presents about a hundred analog photographs of landscaped gardens around houses and estates in the Swiss Canton of Valais and in Romandy, the western, French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Claudia Comte - After Nature - Cacti, Corals and Leaves
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book explores the diverse reference system of forms and materials, plants, animals and other subjects out of which Claudia Comte develops her biomorphic sculptures.
Peter Greenaway - Four Storms & Two Babies - A Love Story
2023
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstorms (the script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway).
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
Ákos Rózmann's Mass consists of twelve electroacoustic compositions created between 1989 and 2004 in the composer's studio and at EMS in Stockholm. Like most of Rózmann's compositions, Mass is a long-form work with a duration of around seven hours. 
John DeAndrea - Grace
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.
Marine Peixoto - Basse saison
2023
French edition
La Salle de bains
currently out of stock
Basse saison combines photographs taken by the artist mainly during the winter of 2020, while staying in her native region, La Grande Motte in southern France.
Ákos Rózmann - Mass / Mässa (7 CD box set)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The complete version of electro-acoustic composer Ákos Rózmann's epic masterpiece 12 Stations presented for the first time in its entirety as a deluxe 7CD set.
François Giboulet - Toto-Dico #1 - Glossaire encyclo-totopédique
2023
French edition
Strandflat
Artist's book.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané - A Leaf Shapes the Eye
2023
French edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A journey through the work of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané over 25 years (artist's book).
Toilet Paper - Calendar 2024
2023
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
The 2024 Toilet Paper wall calendar.
In Plain Sight - Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes
2023
English edition
Kaph Books
What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).
 Fosbury Architecture - Spaziale - Everyone belongs to everyone else / Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Joël Andrianomearisoa - Our Land Just Like A Dream
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa explores Moroccan traditional knowledge and engages dialogue with diverse artistic perspectives, for the very first monographic exhibition dedicated to a contemporary artist at MACAAL, Marrakech.
Jennifer Caubet - Je gage, iels gagent, nous gageons
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Retrospective monograph: a panorama of Jennifer Caubet's work over fifteen years.
Helen Khal - Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue of an exhibition centered on the work of the artist and writer Helen Khal (1923-2009), an influential figure in the Lebanese art scene.
Nicolas Le Bault - La Dimension Perdue #2
2023
French edition
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
The sequel to Nicolas Le Bault's graphic novel of intimate horror and fantasy.
Patrick Procktor - A View From a Window
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
A monographic itinerary on Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), a leading, contradictory and flamboyant figure in the London art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, through a selection of about sixty works, including paintings, watercolors and drawings.
Boris Baltschun - Desert Dictionary (vinyl LP)
2023
Arbitrary
An imaginary dictionary that navigates between language and landscape, notation and noise.
Julius Eastman - Femenine (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Frozen Reeds
currently out of stock
The definitive edition of the historical recording of Julius Eastman's major piece performed in 1974 by S.E.M. Ensemble, remastered by Jim O'Rourke, available on vinyl for the first time.
Andrea Salvino - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
In his "Autobiography", Andrea Salvino uses different visual elements that characterized his production through the years: movie stills, details of master paintings, images of celebrities and many others.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - SMS - Stop Making Sense
2023
French edition
Loevenbruck
currently out of stock
This luxurious publication in large format presents 365 collages made by the artist between 2021 and 2022.
Karen Kilimnik - Early Drawings - 1976–1998
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Karen Kilimnik's artist's book Early Drawings 1976–1998 brings together the artist's own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Thinking With - Jean-Luc Nancy
2023
texts in English, German, French
Diaphanes - TransPositions
A collection of about thirty texts to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world.
Johana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? - (A Series of Open Questions, vol. 4)
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - A Series of Open Questions
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Toilet Paper
2023
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
currently out of stock
29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Stefan Marx - Autobiography
2023
English edition
Tonini Editore
sold out
Stefan Marx uses different media in his "Autobiography". Sketches, paintings, photographs and some texts, all carried out through the iconic style that made him a legend.
Michele Mari - Le copertine di Urania
2023
Italian edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
A journey through the history of the pioneering Italian science fiction magazine Urania since the early 1950s.
Lisa Ponti - Io sono un disegno
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The monograph dedicated to Italian artist, editor, critic and writer Lisa Ponti (1922–2019), daughter of the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti, who spanned a number of moments of twentieth century culture, constantly involved with the leading names of the Italian and international art scene.
Anouk Kruithof - Be Like Water
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph, bringing together for the first time a large selection of artworks made by Anouk Kruithof over twenty years (2002–23).
Italy - A New Collective Landscape
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An exploration of emerging Italian design, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.
Kathrin Böhm - Art on the Scale of Life
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A comprehensive overview of artist Kathrin Böhm's multifaceted, deeply collaborative, and durational practice and networks.
Adelaide Cioni - On Patterns
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
On Patterns reflects the themes in Adelaide Cioni's research: nature, language, craft, performance and abstraction/spirituality.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Ana Prvački - Flowering Under Stress
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book presents a wide selection of works from Prvački's daily watercolor practice that began during the Covid19 pandemic. It guides us through the inner and outer landscapes of the recent years we traversed as we grappled with the complex emotions of a world turned upside down.
Claude Rutault - De-finitions/methods 1973-2016
2023
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Claude Rutault's entire definitions/methods from 1973 to 2016, in English language.
Peter Märkli - Dessins, disegni
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.
Lina Pallotta - Porpora
2023
English edition
Nero
A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Claudio Rocchetti - Labirinto Verticale (vinyl LP)
2023
Die Schachtel
Occupying a remarkable middle ground between the operatic, the abstractions of experimentalism, and seductive qualities of popular music, Italian berlin-based composer, performer and publisher Claudio Rocchetti has created an entirely singular from of electroacoustic practice, as though Phillip Glass' Operas were tossed into a blender run by Alvin Lucier. Thrilling, deeply engaging, and bordering on the visionary, this transportive wonder taps the melancholic and ecstatic alike.
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
no text
Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Haegue Yang - Mesmerizing Mesh - Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
New monograph, devoted to Haegue Yang's "Mesmerizing Mesh" series, which dwelves into "Sacred Paper Cutting", a Korean shamanastic ritual which has inspired many of her recent projects.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
2023
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian - The Institute for Other Intelligences
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian brings speculative fiction and media studies to bear on an imagined future where machine intelligences convene annually for curriculum on algorithmic equity.
Monumental Shadows - On museums, memory and the making of history
2023
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums.
Elisa Di Nofa - Green gulfs and Panga Panga parquet / Golfi verdi e parquet Panga Panga - Milano San Felice
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A revisiting of the singular urban planning project of the residential district of Milano San Felice.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Giovanna Silva - Black Coffee No Sugar - Genoa
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.
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