search results for "the contemporary condition"
2022
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Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Autobiography by Micah Lexier is apparently just a blank pages book, but it is not. Each page is pierced, and at the back is printed the same colophon. That's because you can rip off every page of it and fix it everywhere. Micah Lexier identifies the holes as one of the main themes of his practice.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Radicants
A journey through the painted work of the Israeli artist, writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher and feminist theorist, through a set of reproductions and texts by Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon and Bracha L. Ettinger herself.
2022
Xing
Very cheap non-human animal imitations amicably mimics the wonderful presentations of songs from birds and other protagonists of the animal world, made available by the ornithologist and publisher Jean-Claude Roché in the 1980s.
2022
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A documentary film made over 10 years by Virgile Novarina, portraying the iconoclastic artist Pierre Pinoncelli, known since the 1960s for his shocking happenings.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
ROBO BOOKS
A project of digital images-sculptures by graphic designer and scenographer Grégoire Romanet: the achievement of a work of research, collection and transformation of a visual matter resulting from the commercial web, led during two years.
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
various
A journey through the sculptural work of the Franco-German artist through a series of installations in the public space.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
The fifth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, is devoted to the theme of water and fluids.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A journey through the years 1960-1980, following Pierre Tilman's friendships with the artists, poets, jazz musicians and creators who marked the artistic and literary landscape of the time.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if this word came from the origins.
2022
French edition
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Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Special issue: a retrospective of L'Humidité, the most important art and experimental poetry magazine of the 1970s, created and directed by Jean-François Bory from 1970 to 1978.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The catalog of the exhibition at the first Biennale of Architecture and Landscape.
2022
English edition
Spike
currently out of stock
The Art & Crime issue (with Asco, Darja Bajagic, James Bridle, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, Sam Kriss, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Cady Noland, Brad Phillips, Tommaso Pincio & Francesco Tenaglia, Tobias Timm...).
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.
2022
XKatedral
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The first in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music.
2022
English edition
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
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A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.
2022
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Nieves
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The everyday life of Stefan Marx in Berlin, in a new 300-page volume of drawings.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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A survey of Louise Nevelson's research on collage.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
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The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
New monograph.
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
An experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation (the publication accompanying Marco Fusinato's immersive project for the Australia Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, with texts by Branden W. Joseph, Elizabeth Povinelli, Chus Martínez, Thurston Moore, Stephen O'Malley, Bruce Russell, etc.).
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The fourth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the Fortune Teller.
2022
English edition
Nero
An in-depth ex-post reflection on Documenta 14 by one of its curators, Pierre Bal Blanc, with the contribution of Adam Szymczyk.
2022
Important Records
31.00 € 26.50 €
"Out of Our Hands" brings together Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra who, through the hands of Ordinary Affects, have created debut recordings of two new compositions.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay on the Italian period (1962-1976) of the American artist, never studied before although it has deeply influenced the imagination and the work of Paul Thek.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
The film by Charles de Meaux, with Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Jin Shi-Jye, Wu Yue, Thibault de Montalembert, Féodor Atkin, in book (texts by Philippe Azoury, Anne Dary, Donatien Grau, Élisabeth Lebovici, Brice Pedroletti, Thomas Schlesser), on Blu-Ray and DVD.
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Dixit Algorizmi. The Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding modern technologies, using the lens of contemporary artistic practices to explore their forgotten roots and overlooked resonances with distant places, times and cultures (catalogue of the Uzbekistan's pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2022).
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
This first monograph dedicated to Paloma Bosquê addresses the Brazilian artist's frustration with the visual as key to understanding of what lies beyond language, of that matter that can be perceived, but not rationalized.
2022
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Tonini Editore - Autobiography
Autobiography by Claude Closky is a question about identity and social media. On a dark mode theme colored background, tens of "Claude" of different genres and identities are displayed in sequence. What is the real "Autobiography"?
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Strandflat
First monograph, presenting four perennial works created by Christine Maigne as part of public and private commissions and which are organically articulated to the ground.
2022
Important Records
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A major turning-point in the sonic oeuvre of Eliane Radigue.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire – To look at things
A contemporary reading of the major divergences within the theory of graphic design from the encounter between the two Dutch graphic designers and typographers Wim Crouwel and Jan Van Toorn in the 1970s.
2022
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
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A collective reflection on the imperatives of sustainability and reversibility to which architecture must respond today, in connection with contemporary societal and environmental issues.
2022
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Flee
A wide-ranging photographic survey of contemporary and modern sacred architectural constructions in the Puglia region of Italy through nearly 200 cataloged brutalist, modernist or simply eccentric buildings.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.
2022
French edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The eminent art historian and curator Jean-Hubert Martin takes a singular look at the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève by abolishing hierarchies and thus encouraging to return to the primary relationship between the artwork and the viewer.
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
From "institutional critique" to "infrastructural critique" .
2022
English edition
MAH (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève)
The eminent art historian and curator Jean-Hubert Martin takes a singular look at the collection of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Genève by abolishing hierarchies and thus encouraging to return to the primary relationship between the artwork and the viewer.
2022
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The audience's human body and the museum institution.
2022
English edition
Punch
Two contemporaneous bodies of artworks, which demonstrate the parallel tendencies of art in state socialist Hungary in the early 1970s.
2022
English edition
Sound American
Guest-curated by Found Sound Nation's Kyla-Rose Smith, this special issue is dedicated to the unique perspectives of musical voices outside the USA, giving unique insight into the wider world of artistic practice and allowing us all to question how we create.
2022
English edition
Artforum
Ruth Asawa, Virginia Overton, André Cadere, The Otolith Group, Éliane Radigue, Pierre Molinier...
2022
English edition
ISOLARII
At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
This catalogue explores some of the pivotal themes of the artist's research, from her interest in crossing and redefining the border between interior and exterior to the relationship between the aesthetic object and its institutional context.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Artist's edition (poster).
2022
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La Salle de bains
An exhibition by Matthew Burbidge scattered and reconfigured by its visitors turned collectors.
2022
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Nero
Julien Carreyn captures the singularity and strangeness of a cultural center during a residency.
2022
English edition
Floating Opera Press
Exhibition catalogue with twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough (1919–1999), focusing on the artist's late-career departure from the industrial figuration for which she was known into a wry, quietly influential approach to abstraction.