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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale - Ruminations on Art, Culture, Politics and Us/Others
2022
English edition
Archive Books
An Ongoing-Offcoming Tale comprises abstractions, subversions and poetic ruminations, housed within essays that engage with the lives and practices of over 30 artists.
Nayla Romanos Iliya - The Phoenician Alphabet
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
(last copies available!)
Publication dedicated to Lebanese artist Nayla Romanos Iliya's "Small Characters" sculptures, inspired by and named after each of the 22 letters of the Phoenician Alphabet.
 Tehnica Schweiz - The Blue Room
2022
bilingual edition (English / Hungarian)
Archive Books
An installation by the artistic duo Tehnica Schweiz (Gergely László and Péter Rákosi) comprising a film and a porcelain sculpture collection: a re-examination of our relation to architectural and material cultural heritage.
Trading Zones - Camera Work in Artistic and Ethnographic Research
2022
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This book introduces camera-based practices at the intersections of artistic and ethnographic research that critically examine the means of their own production and social embeddedness.
An Activist Neuroaesthetics Reader
2022
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
A manifesto for an activist neuroaesthetics, to make the processes of digital dominion and governmentalization—which are becoming more and more prominent in late-stage cognitive capitalism (or neural capitalism)—opaque, visible, and known (contributions by Franco Bifo Berardi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Warren Neidich, Slavoj Žižek...).
In Medias Res #2 - Architecture in Motion
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
After a previous focus on questions of historiography and the archive, In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion continues Fluentum's ongoing investigation into the history of its grounds with a focus on its architecture and surrounding material culture, both past and present.
Dora Budor - Autoreduction
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication based on a project initiated by Dora Budor at Progetto (Lecce, Italy) in 2021 that began with detouring a solo exhibition onto a collaborative course to traverse the itineraries of work, leisure, and consumption in southern Italy.
Rubem Valentim - The Brazilian Trace / A Riscadura Brasileira
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph of the painter, sculptor and engraver Rubem Valentim (1922-1991), an emblematic figure of the Brazilian art of the 20th century.
Leyla Yenirce - So Much Energy
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
De quelques événements sans signification à reconstituer (book + DVD)
2022
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
currently out of stock
A large research into the first, long forgotten film by Moroccan filmmaker Mostafa Derkaoui About Some Meaningless Events (1974): a cinematographic history that sketches out a constellation of micro-histories on the cultural, artistic and political Morocco of the 1970s.
Claire Tabouret - I am spacious, singing flesh
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A new critical reading of key dimensions of the Los Angeles-based French artist's work.
Laurence Bonvin - شالي (Shali)
2022
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A series of images in deep blacks of an abandoned fortress near Siwa in Egypt, whose stone and salt walls have been eroded by rainwater, transforming this city into a mineral and sculptural monument.
Giulia Essyad - Blueberry Studies
2022
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Giulia Essyad's Blueberry Studies, part of her Blue Period cycle, where blue skin is central.
 Flatform - Snaturamenti
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Light Cone
A workbook by Flatform, a "collective artist" in the field of video and media art, at the border between experimental cinema and contemporary art, conceived and curated by Giuliana Prucca.
Jerry Hunt - Irida Records - Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986  (7LP Box + Book)
2022
Blank Forms - Records
The astounding reedition of seven albums exploring the electro-acoustic experiments of Texan composer-performer Jerry Hunt and others affiliated with his Irida label.
Artforum - December 2022 – The Year in Review
2022
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2022: a renowned group of critics, artists, and curators from around the world take stock of the year in art.
Saâdane Afif - The Heptahedron - Complete Series of Side Magazine (box set)
2022
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Wirklichkeit Books
70.00 63.00 €
The 8 volumes of the publication conceived by Saâdane Afif for the Bergen Assembly triennial, gathered in a box set.
Saâdane Afif - Side Magazine - Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron
2022
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Wirklichkeit Books
The special 8th edition concluding the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, constitutes the real catalogue of the exhibitions, with extensive visual documentation and texts by different authors, on some 300 pages.
Wangechi Mutu -
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
New monograph of the famous American-Kenyan artist, presenting her bronze and clay sculptures and her recent films.
Enrico Peressutti - URSS 1941
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs and drawings, mostly unpublished, made by the Italian architect back from the Russian front in 1941.
Erwan Venn - Kouroupolis
2022
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
A series of watercolors created by the artist Erwan Venn around the construction of the Guiana Space Center, in the 1960s.
Peter Fend - Africa-Arctic Flyway - Physiocratic States
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The use of art and architecture to develop practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.
 Tong Yi Xin - Manuel d\'amour environnemental
2022
bilingual edition (French / Chinese)
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
A collection of poems by Chinese artist Tong Yi Xin.
Charlemagne Palestine - ਚੈਨਲKAANALचैनलRÁÐעָרוּץ - Godbear Series 004 (vinyl LP)
2022
Matière Mémoire
An original meeting, powerful and explosive, between Charlemagne Palestine, Eric Thielemans and Oren Ambarchi.
 Line Fontana & David Fagart - Renewing the City from Within
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A reflection by the architects of Fagart & Fontana on the renewal of the city from within and more specifically on the processes of transformation and adaptation of existing collective housing to new needs and lifestyles.
Giovanna Silva - Description of San Marco by Michel Butor Redescribed by Giovanna Silva
2022
English edition
Bruno
Six decades after the publication of Michel Butor's Description of San Marco, artist photographer Giovanna Silva cast her eye to the iconic Venetian square and its surrounds, at once populated by signs of contemporary life, but also astonishingly unchanged.
Emanuel Halpern - Paradoxer Schattenboxer
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A retro-futuristic graphic novel by the Swiss artist.
Walter Grab - Walter Grab (1927-1989) - Werkkatalog
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.
Christian Marclay -
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
A retrospective.
Jacopo Benassi - Matrice
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
The catalogue of an exhibition in which painting, photography and sculpture bring about some original strange hybrids: probably Jacopo Benassi's most ambitious and intimate project.
 eRikm - Échoplasme - Paréidolie – Encres & Scanographies de eRikm (book + CD)
2022
bilingual edition (French / Japanese)
Bisou Records
A series of ghostly ink drawings and scanographs by eRikm, accompanied by a mixed sound piece, with sound texts freely inspired by fragments of stories about the universe of the Yokai, these ghosts and supernatural creatures that inhabit Japanese mythology, between hypnotizing soundscapes and bewitching instrumental devices.
Anne-James Chaton - I have the solution for the planet
2022
texts in English and French
Daisy editions
The first publication dedicated to the visual work of writer and performer Anne-James Chaton.
Omar Kholeif -
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
The first comprehensive monograph of the art and life of Iranian American artist of Armenian descent Sonia Balassanian: in this deeply personal portrait, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.
Giorgio Peghin - Voyages en Sardaigne - Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Voyages en Sardaigne
Voyages en Sardaigne (Travels in Sardinia) is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. This first part proposes an itinerary through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente, exploring soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of this territory marked by an industrial history.
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2023
2022
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The BOM DIA weekly planner for 2023, offering a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month.
Henry Roy - Ibiza Memories
2022
English edition
Nieves
A 30-year archive of images from Franco-Haitian artist photographer Henry Roy's many trips to the island of Ibiza.
David Bihanic - Matrices
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Athom
Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.
Karel Teige - The Marketplace of Art / Commentary (2 volumes)
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English translation of Karel Teige's The Marketplace of Art in two volumes includes a critical introduction, inquiries, and extensive commentaries. Originally published in the Czech language in 1936, The Marketplace of Art is the summation of Teige's artistic, political, and theoretical work.
Loren Connors - Night of Rain
2022
English edition
Recital
sold out
An art book by musician and artist Loren Connors, exploring his pictural practice.
Audrey Muratet - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
Matthias Uhlmann - Die Nudistenfilme des Schweizers Werner Kunz
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The naturist films of the Swiss director Werner Kunz (1926-2018), pioneer of sexual liberation in cinema.
Holding Pattern
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kunstnernes Hus Director and former Wire editor Anne Hilde Neset to award-winning novelist Tom McCarthy, invited to unpack, via contemporary art, the themes dealt with in his books.
Mousse
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Ayo Akingbade, Dora Budor, Ignacio Gatica, Caspar Heinemann, Simon Lehner, David Moser, Fujiko Nakaya, Selma Selman, Francisco Tropa, Travis Jeppesen, Cally Spooner...
Éric Baudelaire - Make, Do, With - Films and exhbitions, 2011-2022
2022
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.
David Douard - U Killed me First (Melody)
2022
English edition
various
Publication constituting a continuation of Melody, the installation created by David Douard for Sculpture Garden, acquired by the city of Geneva, and which was subsequently vandalized.
Anne-Valérie Gasc - Machines Aveugles
2022
French edition
Athom
This edition, at the crossroads of the exhibition catalogue and the critical essay, abundantly illustrated, gathers the contributions of about fifteen invited authors around Anne-Valérie Gasc's experiments on the architectural disappearance.
 General Idea - Ecce Homo
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The General Idea drawings.
Jim O\'Rourke - Immanent in Nervous Activity (vinyl LP)
2022
Die Schachtel / Blume Editions
Riding the razor's edge between bristling electroacoustic wizardry and the constrained structures and harmonic interplay of musical minimalism, "Immanent in Nervous Activity" is Die Schachtel's new release from the creative partnership of Giovanni Di Domenico and Jim O'Rourke, joining the conversant vision of two of the most striking voices within the field of contemporary sound.
Vanessa Safavi - Alien Armpit
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Alien Armpit brings together short texts and images that the artist Vanessa Safavi made between 2013 and 2022.
Pietro Roccasalva - Chi è che ride
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This new monograph aims to highlight the fundamental areas of Pietro Roccasalva's production through fifty works from the late 1990s up to the present day, including new and unpublished works from the artist's studio as well as public and private collections. 
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