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Magali Reus -
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Magali Reus' recent series and new sculptures.
Geoffrey Farmer - A Way Out of the Mirror
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A complement to the project presented by the Vancouver-based artist at the Canadian pavilion for the 2017 Venice Bienniale, this publication includes over two hundred drawings by Farmer, at once perfectly readable and traumatic, and a glossary compiled by curator Kitty Scott.
Morgan Fisher - Off-Screen Cinema
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
Ismaïl Bahri - Instruments
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
sold out
Instruments is the catalogue accompanying Ismaïl Bahri's exhibition of the same title at the Jeu de Paume. It is also his first monograph. Bahri's oeuvre, which dates back to the 2000s, is like a precise and sensitive record of events and experiments; its often mechanical kinetics are particularly evocative of the film process. His experiments are based on the tiny nuances and minute developments that occur when simple things are brought into contact with each other. They demand an acuteness of gaze that leads one to question the limits of perception and the visible.
Piotr Uklański - Real Nazis
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.
Annie Claustres - Objets emblèmes, objets du don - Enjeux postmodernes de la culture matérielle, de 1964 à nos jours
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.
Cura.
2017
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Cura #25 Summer issue celebrates its special edition, dedicated to 25 (+1) outstanding protagonists of the contemporary art scene, selected among the most interesting female artists of the new generation. A collectible and celebratory issue!
Andrea Pertoldeo - Blue Dust
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
This publication presents a photographic project by Andrea Pertoldeo which consists of a series of full-length portraits of immigrants working on industrial sites in the desert of Bahrain. Images of landscape and labour coincide in order to reveal aspects of the construction of contemporary society. Featuring four texts by artists and scholars.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - Al-\'An ! (And Your Night Is Your Shadow – A Fairy Tale Of Piece Of Land To Make Our Dreams) (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
sold out
A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.
Palais - The Dream of Forms
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
The magazine of Palais de Tokyo is devoting its issue # 25 to the exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” (The Dream of Forms), dedicated to the relations between science and contemporary art. The exhibition is presented at the Palais de Tokyo from June 14 to September 10, 2017, and organised on the occasion of the twentieth birthday of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains.
Josef Maria Schröder -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.
Jan Lotter Benavides - Disculpe
2017
Spanish edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
65 real-life stories featuring street hawkers—collected by Benavides while he was traveling by bus in Colombia. Hilarious or tragic, this collection of texts tells the cycle of gifting and counter-gifting in which clients and hawkers are engaged into.
Maurizio Donzelli - La linea del tutto
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monographic catalogue: a selection from the italian artist's most recent works—acrylic drawings, watercolours, and the Mirrors series.
Mirrored
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, featuring works by six artists from different generations: Siri Aurdal, Nina Canell, Charlotte Johannesson, Jumana Manna, Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki, and Mika Taanila.
 Bureau A - Sea Level
2017
English edition
Boabooks
This publication stems from The Devil's Peak (in beige), an installation created in the Californian desert of Amboy by Maxime Bondu and Bureau A (Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide). The project deals with how the absence of water conditions life in the desert.
Rodney Graham - That\'s Not Me
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Gathering works from 1994 to 2017, this new monograph focuses on the artist's fictional self-portraits from his lightbox series as well as on his musical production. It includes an iconographic documentation, essays by artists, critics, and curators, and a text by Graham himself.
Pacôme Thiellement - The Age of Technicians
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
The two authors of this publication, each by means of their own specific medium, question the relation of humanity to digital technologies. In his text, Pacôme Thiellement describes the digital alienation to come; Lauren Huret's collages revisits the time when personal computers entered the domestic space.
Stéphan Landry - Tout va bien
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.
Wilhelm Klotzek - Trefferia
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Monograph spanning a decade of works by the multidisciplinary artist Wilhelm Klotzek: The Berlin-based artist embeds his practice around his personal stories from 1980s-1990s Germany with dark and humorous texts that strengthens the interconnection between his visual work and his personal interest with the medium of language.
Minna Henriksson - Works on Paper
2017
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Minna Henriksson's artist book Works on Paper is a graphic story with forty linocuts on the political history of the paper industry in Finland.
Benjamin Seror -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with French performer Benjamin Seror with Keren Detton, Julie Pellegrin and Eva Wittocx. Together they look at Seror's recent projects and influences, and discuss the notions at the core of his practice (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).
À l\'Ouest toute ! - Travailleuses de Bretagne et d\'ailleurs
2017
French edition
EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany)
An account of a three-year research program focusing on working women's struggles in Britany: the publication provides an overview of the studies and artworks produced within the framework of the program, as well as extracts of lectures and a set of original archives.
Art Against Art
2017
English edition
Art Against Art
The fourth issue of Art Against Art is looking at the change in temperature that has occured since last fall and the challenges art faces such as the rise in nativism in the West, the naissance of the influence of A.I. in art and the growing influence of the Chinese art market.
Artforum - June-July-August 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
A special issue on “The Politics of Everyday Life,” which asks, how does the political reveal itself in quotidian experience—its images, its forms, its events? Featuring responses by Silvia Federici, Simon Critchley, Julie Ault, Mariel O. Wilson, and others; a roundtable on cultural appropriation; Mimi Thi Nguyen on the politics of the hijab; plus Summer reading recommendations, Peter Eleey on Trisha Brown, Murtaza Vali on the Sharjah Biennial, Luke Skrebowski on Robert Rauschenberg, and much more.
Émilie Parendeau - Ça m\'inquiète toujours ces sirènes
2017
no text
Boabooks
For her show at Mamco, the French artist borrowed from the museum collections to reinterpret a series of artworks by Imi Knoebel, Steven Parrino, Frank Stella, John M. Armleder, Luciano Fabro, Robert Filliou, and Christian Robert-Tissot. Both a catalogue and an artist's book, this publication replays the exhibition much like a snapshot collection.
Bruno Carbonnet - Cloaque
2017
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
13.00 6.50 €
This narrative intertwines text and image to reflect on the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April 2014 on the Korean peninsula. At the heart of this tragic story lies the controversial personality of Yoo Byung-eun, an evangelical pastor, guru, patron and photographer.
Data Cities
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
Collective publication bringing together artists, designers, and specialists to reflect on digital creativity within the city. Extending the investigations from the 11th meeting of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, it questions digital and data practices in urban territory.
Diaphanes
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes is a new bilingual English-German quarterly magazine with a focus on contemporary art, critical discourse, and multilingual fiction. This first issue features a special section dedicated to the work of Pierre Guyotat, including excerpts, an interview with Donatien Grau and drawings by Paul McCarthy. Also in this issue: Mike Wilson; Ute Holl; Haus Am Gern; Aya Momose; Mário Gomes; Marcus Quent; Julien Maret; Jason Swartz; Julian Röder; Peter Ott; Tyler Coburn; Francisco Sierras Malerei; Yves Netzhammer; Giovanna Marmo; Luc Meresma…
Espace art actuel - Digital
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Sculpture in a Digital World: “Digital Fabrications”; “Assembling the Post-Fordist Social Factory”; “Sculptors And Technology: Beyond The Digital”; Null Object: Gustav Metzger Thinks About Nothing by London Fieldworks; Jesse Colin Jackson's Marching Cubes; the 3D Additivist Cookbook; interviews with Grégory Chatonsky & Dominique Sirois, Erika Lincoln; the 6th edition of La Littorale; reviews and selected publications…
Oscar Murillo - Estructuras resonantes
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Catalogue documenting two projects by the Colombian artist—a photo essay and an artist's book—focusing on immigration and family ties.
Even
2017
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Modernist master Florine Stettheimer; South Korea's gangster cinema; saving the National Endowment for the Arts; interviews with Charline Von Heyl and Christodoulos Panayiotou; “Negative” section with Rei Kawakubo, Eurovision, Macron, and more; reviews and summer's agenda; portfolio by Jane Chang Mi…
Flash Art
2017
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo's solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; interview with William Pope.L on the occasion of his sound installation/performance at Documenta 14; Lindsay Lohan as a cultural phenomenon; interview with Pier Paolo Calzolari; the enigmatic art of Rodrigo Hernández; the choreography of Ligia Lewis; the filmmaking of Park Chan-kyong; exhibition reviews.
Rodrigo Hernández - I Am Nothing
2017
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Rodrigo Hernández's first larger publication depicts several paths around his sculpture Figure 1. Seven artists, curators, and writers, invited to collaborate on this publication, reflect on his artistic practice and on this particular work and conform the spine of this book. Accompanied by both recent and earlier works, these new texts offer the reader to look from different angles at his poetic oeuvre.
Mousse
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Kathy Noble on narcissism in recent art; Robert Barry on Erkki Kurenniemi; John Knight; Seth Price; Julia Weist & Nestor Siré; Johannes Paul Raether; Yan Xing; Trix + Robert Haussmann; Kevin Jerome Everson; Leilah Weinraub; Lantian Xie; Basma Alsharif; Duane Linklater; Robertas Narkus; “Let's Make Protest Great Again” by Jens Hoffmann; “Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing. This Is How Some Revolutions Get Started” by Andrew Berardini.
Moving Tales - Video Works from the La Gaia Collection
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This exceptional catalogue follows an exhibition of video works from the La Gaia Collection in Italy. It features documentation of the show and individual presentations of works by the major video artists of the 20th century to nowadays: Marina Abramović, Pierre Bismuth, Mircea Cantor, Rä Di Martino, Ion Grigorescu, Gary Hill, Jonathan Horowitz, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Adrian Paci, Rosemarie Trockel, Valie Export, Bill Viola…
Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.
Richard Hamilton - Reaper
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Taking as a starting point Hamilton's “Reaper” series—inspired by the work of Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion—this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Scories / Live at Transnumériques (2 CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
16.00 12.00 €
New “electro-contempo” collaboration, born out of the encounter between turntablist DJ Olive, musical director of Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles Jean-Paul Dessy, and violonist David Núñez. The second CD includes a live recorded at Les Transnumériques festival.
Noël Dolla - Spatial Restructurings (1969-2016)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
(last copies available!)
Publication dedicated to Noël Dolla's pictorial experiments in nature: this lesser-known side to the artist's work offers a unique insight today on the painter's research on the medium. The book features a chronological documentation exploring in detail these 13 “Spatial Restructurings”, along with texts by Fabrice Flahutez and Rachel Stella.
Spike - What exhibitions do
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Spike
The future of the exhibition space; virtual reality; Documenta 14 in Athens; Liam Gillick on Rirkrit Tiravanija's “untitled (1992) free”; Q&A with Benjamin H. Bratton, Adriana Lara, and Rózca Farkas; Karen Kilimnik by Barry Schwabsky; images contributed by Elad Lassry, Sophie von Hellermann, GCC, Alex Da Corte; reviews from Austria, Berlin, Switzerland, Brussels, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles…
 Novi_sad - Wound_Burner (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
15.00 11.00 €
Audio project based on field recordings which took place in various locations in New York, U.S.A, Gotland, Sweden, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil and the Greek countryside. Featuring soprano Irini Kyriakidou, this electronic immersive piece is fully part of Novi_sad's visual approach of sound.
Entre élection et sélection - Le critique face à ses choix
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
18.00 9.00 €
Art criticism: historical approach and current practices
Déborah Laks - Des déchets pour mémoire - L\'utilisation de matériaux de récupération par les nouveaux réalistes (1955-1975)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
currently out of stock
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
The Second Sound - Conversations on Gender and Music
2017
English edition
umland / Q-O2
currently out of stock
The Second Sound is an imaginary conversation based on the testimonies of musicians and sound artists on the role of gender and sex within their field.
Sheila Hicks - Apprentissages
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
Handbook documenting a series of site-specific installations in Paris by a pioneer in textile art.
Ulises Carrión - (a, b, c)
2017
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title.
Ulises Carrión - (the drum)
2017
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.
Bomb - John Giorno
2017
English edition
Bomb
sold out
A special issue dedicated to John Giorno, in the framework of Ugo Rondinone's exhibition “I Love John Giorno” in New York.
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