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Marcin Rusak - Encoded Symbols
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Roberto Sironi - Encoded Symbols
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the work of Roberto Sironi, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. The activity of the Italian designer unfolds through highly symbolic projects, based on his personal interest in anthropology and ethnology.
Klima - Magical Trouble
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
currently out of stock
Klima #3 focuses on the occult, the spiritual dimension that emanates from the different encounters and cohabitations of the living and the non-living, the deviant and erudite aspects of witchcraft, magic, rituals, spiritism and their societal implications.
Artists as Iconographers
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Catalogue dedicated to contemporary artists whose production concentrate on the reuse of existing images (new expanded edition). This publication investigates the various practices of these iconographer artists through documentation, illustrations, essays, and interviews (with Haris Epaminonda, Wade Guyton, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jonathan Monk, Linder Sterling…).
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
no text
La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...
Mousse
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Ça m'est égal: The Involution of Desire by Estelle Hoy; Hervé Guibert by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou; Julien Nguyen by Mónica Belevan; Andrew Berardini on artist, writer, and Semiotext(e) coeditor Hedi El Kholti; Tsai Ming-liang by Dora Budor; Wendy Vogel on artist and writer Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014), one of the founding members of A.I.R., New York's first all-women cooperative gallery; Carolyn Lazard by Richard Birkett; Tuan Andrew Nguyen converses with Rahel Aima...
Into the City, Onto the Stage - Unlikely Collaborations in the Performing Arts
2020
English edition
Bruno
Curating performing arts (a research project by Reykjavik-based curators Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir).
Kino/Atelier - Program
2020
English edition
Bauer Verlag
A book produced in conjunction with Bauer Verlag's eponymous series of screenings at the Studio/Cinema in Brooklyn, with about 25 contributions.
F Letter - New Russian Feminist Poetry
2020
bilingual edition (English / Russian)
ISOLARII
The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.
Shirin Azari - Stories of Little and Big Blossoms
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Conceived as a children's book, Stories of Little and Big Blossoms is a collection of illustrated short stories about Elham, a little Iranian girl exiled in Germany, and her difficulties to fit in this new environment. A poetic work on exile, friendship, courage and open-mindedness, inspired by the childhood of author and illustrator, Shirin Azari.
Mihai Barabancea - Falling on Blades
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographer Mihai Barabancea portrays the underworld of post-Soviet Romania and Moldova: a set of subjects and scenes revealing the crude reality of the streets, zeroing in on moments of ruthless rawness and keen poignancy.
Riccardo Benassi - Morestalgia
2020
English edition
Nero
Monograph / artist's book.
Olivier Bringer - Les Chuchoteurs
2020
French edition
ARTDERIEN
Drawings and texts by Olivier Bringer (series of 30 drawings and 12 unpublished texts printed on Munken paper).
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré - Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
2020
French edition
Empire - Books
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
Karbé Dinel - MMXX-09 - Ouroboros (vinyl EP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
Karbe Dinel creates a complex work of sound that shifts through diverse moods and seamlessly dovetailed sections, using synthesizer and effects to create deep resonating tones and high pitched complements, mysterious grainy ambience, haunting chambers of drifting electronics; a mysterious and compelling journey in the electronic realm.
Christian Egger - Shows, Signals, Unvernehmen - Collected Re- & Interviews 2005-2020
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Floating Opera Press
The collected reviews and interviews of art critic, curator, and artist Christian Egger.
Ingo Giezendanner - Sloppy Sleep
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.
Phill Niblock - BestiaIRE (vinyl LP)
2020
Matière Mémoire
A piece composed by Phill Niblock, performed live by Ensemble IRE trio: Kasper T. Toeplitz (ebass), Franck Vigroux (eguitar), Hélène Breschand (e harp) on side A / a piece composed and performed by Kasper T.Toeplitz (ebass) and Franck Vigroux (guitar, electronics) on side B.
Boris Rebetez - Common Tales
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nero
Retrospective monograph.
Quentin Rollet - Vents (CD)
2020
Bisou Records
Denis Lavant reads/says the poem Vents by Saint-John Perse (1946), accompanied by Quentin Rollet (saxophones) and Patrick Müller (electrosonic). With the participation of Romain Perrot (guitar).
Sébastien Roux - Succession of Timbres With one Partial in Common (vinyl LP)
2020
Artkillart
Sébastien Roux pushes Max Neuhaus' concept of succession of timbres to a new height in a drastically systematic composition.
Alexandre St-Onge - Entonnoir de Nous
2020
French edition
Squint.press
Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.
Alfio Tommasini - Via Lactea
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Agricultural landscapes and portraits of the Swiss Alps: a fascinating visual study of the relationship between humans, animals and topography in the context of a rapidly changing agriculture and dairy industry.
Stéphane Vigny - Plaire
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
AMAC
Stéphane Vigny's first monograph, conceived as an object with several levels of reading, as well as the sculptures of the artist.
 Bruther - Dixit - Hyperconfort / Hypercomfort
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
First issue of the critical journal published by Cosa Mentale, in which the words of the architecture practice Bruther and of Laurent Stalder, professor of architecture history at ETH, confront each other around the theme of “hypercomfort.”
Frog
2020
texts in English and French
Frog
A dozen of exhibition reviews (Sylvie Fleury, Martin Kippenberger, Christian Boltanski & Bernard Frize...), 8 interviews (Giusto Van Campenhout, Andrew Power, Virgil Abloh, Sean Landers, Richard Kennedy, Saadane Afif, conversation between Jordan Wolfson & Bjarne Melgaard...), 8 exhibitions, places and collections in pictures (Shara Hughes, Bruno Serralongue photographed by himself, Thomas Bernhard's house, the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection...), some artists special projects, and the chronicles.
OpticalSound
2020
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
Jean-Baptiste Farkas; Nathalie Leleu; RYBN; Laura Kopf; Marianne Derrien; Dorothée Deyries-Henry; Guillaume Aubry; Étienne Charry par Hervé Zénouda; Maxime Ansiau; Carole Douillard, Amelia Jones, Suzanne Lacy & Barbara T. Smith; Éric Degoutte; Jérôme Grivel; Vaughan Oliver; Alain Bergala; Gwendoline Samidoust; Yann Ricordel; Emma Briant; Olivier Mosset...
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique - Art et hacktivisme technocritique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.
Brigitte Gilardet - Paroles de commissaires - Histoires. Institutions. Pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A survey of the history of temporary exhibitions in France, through a series of interviews with 38 curators.
Alessandro Bosetti - Thèses/Voix
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.
Matali Crasset - The Drawing Centre - Les trognes
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – The Drawing Centre
Matali Crasset's drawings sketchbooks.
Revolutions for the Future - May \'68 and the Prague Spring
2020
English edition
Suture Press
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
A wide-ranging collective reflection on the philosophical legacy, current resonances and historical articulation of May '68 and the Prague Spring (contributions by Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar, Michael Hauser...).
Ian Kiaer - Endnote, tooth
2020
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).
Hermann Nitsch - Traubenfleisch (2 vinyl LP)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
Presenting the first perfomance of Hermann Nitsch's grand and large-scale “Traubenfleisch” symphony.
Rafael Pérez - Centro de la tierra - Multicolor y cambiante
2020
no text
Nieves
currently out of stock
Rafael Pérez' sketchbook presented in this publication was created in his studio in December 1992 in Dielsdorf, Zurich, as a Christmas present for his wife Ursula. Only minor alterations to the pagination, size and dedication have been made.
Tomoko Sauvage - Fischgeist (vinyl LP)
2020
various
currently out of stock
The third solo album by Paris-based Japanese experimental musician and sound artist Tomoko Sauvage, recorded in a former water tank in Berlin, a building with a special architecture and acoustics.
Alexandre St-Onge - Jet du bas dit AA l\'eau guet avec l\'invisible
2020
French edition
Squint.press
currently out of stock
Book / sonic sculpture.
Maryanne Amacher - Selected Writings and Interviews
2020
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
sold out
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (hardcover edition).
Ronan Bouroullec - Crayon-Pinceau
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
A small selection of Ronan Bouroullec's recent drawings.
Hermann Nitsch - Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (CD)
2020
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published in 1972 by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Nigel Peake - Spring / Summer + Autumn / Winter (2 volume set)
2020
no text
Nieves
sold out
Nigel Peake's drawings for Japanese distillery Mitosaya.
Nicky Assman - The Reconfigured Nature
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
sold out
Set alongside guest contributions, this catalogue offers, from the works of the two Dutch artists Nicky Assmann and Jan Robert Leegte, a fresh take on the fundamental concept of nature, in an age when science and technology are capable of replicating its phenomena.
Mieke Bal - The Contemporary Condition - Exhibition-ism – Temporal Togetherness
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
In Exhibition-ism, theorist and artist Mieke Bal develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary.
Johanne Løgstrup - The Contemporary Condition - Co-existence of Times – A conversation with John Akomfrah
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
In the form of a conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, this book sets out to explore how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways.
Olia Lialina - Net Artist
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
This first monograph of the international net art pioneer allows us to (re)discover this always contemporary artistic practice, inviting us to plunge into the specificities of the internet medium (flows, URLs, protocols, etc.), and sketching a media archaeology.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Fordlândia
2020
bilingual edition (Portuguese / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An artistic project carried out around Fordlândia—a town built from 1928 onwards by Henry Ford in Amazonia on the banks of the Tapajòs to intensively exploit the rubber tree needed to manufacture tyres, which, following the failure of the project, became a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage of uncertain statu. With twenty international artists and researchers, in collaboration with Fotoativa, a Brazilian collective from Belém.
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