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Kaleidoscope - Summer 2016 – Sterling Ruby Takeover
2016
English edition
miscellaneous
sold out
A special summer edition dedicated to American artist Sterling Ruby—also guest editor.
Beni Bischof - Rambo
2016
no text
Nieves
sold out
Over 300 watercolors inspired by the film Rambo II (artist's book).
Alessandro Bosetti - Stille Post - Radio Works – 2003-2011 (box set 4 CD)
2016
various
sold out
A selection of radiophonic works from 2003 to 2011, completed with a 36-page booklet and 4 essays by Bosetti himself, Gregory Whitehead and Ksenija Stefanovic.
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Tina Braegger - The Grateful Dead - A Diary by Gabriel Krampus
2016
English edition
various
sold out
The fictional diary of Gabriel Krampus, an artist who has been living with his artist wife on a deserted island of the Indian ocean for 44 years.
Leonor Antunes - The last days in Chimalistac
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
This richly illustrated monograph documents a series of sculptural works engaging with the histories of 20th-century architecture, design and art—particularly the heritage of the Black Mountain College and the international Modern Movement.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Oskar Dawicki - I\'m Sorry
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Nero
The publication is the first comprehensive review of Oskar Dawicki's oeuvre. Trained as a painter, it was his practice as a performer and as a post-conceptualist with a singularly fatalistic slant that brought him into the public realm.
Francesco Vezzoli - Museo Museion
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of Vezzoli's double project at Museion: as guest curator, presenting an exhibition of the Museion collection, and as artist, with the first complete retrospective of his sculptural work.
Ina Blom - The Autobiography of Video - The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The birth and life of video art.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
 Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin - Je suis du bord
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Documenting a video installation addressing the consequences of historical sea travel.
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Billy Sullivan - Still, Looking - Works 1969-2016
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.
Bernadette Mayer - Utopia
2016
French edition
<o> future <o>
currently out of stock
A collection of texts defining utopia as a place existing only within the domain of language, Utopia gives a synthesis of historical utopias and a snapshot of the 1970-1980's poetic scene.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
Transparenzen / Transparencies - The Ambivalence of a New Visibility
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This catalogue documents the eponymous double exhibition examining the ambivalent notions of transparency and opacity in the globalized world and their reflection in the work of contemporary artists.
Vitrine, Possibilità
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Vitrine is the catalogue of the namesake project organized by GAM museum in Turin. Beginning four years ago, “Vitrine” has as its primary objective the research in the field of contemporary art. The title of the 2015-2016 edition, “Possibilità” (Possibilities), refers to the transformations that take place during one's life and their fluid and uncertain nature which is retraced in art.
 Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei) - 11 mantras
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.
Suzanne Hetzel - 7 saisons en Camargue
2016
French edition
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
A notebook illustrated with photographs documenting an installation project inspired by relationships built by the artist with the local people from French region the Camargue between July 2013 and December 2015.
Lara Favaretto - Ageing Process
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A manual / first monograph on Lara Favaretto's works comprising iconographic documentation and complementary essays by critics and specialists.
Oliver Osborne - European Paintings
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Ian Cheng - Forking at perfection
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Documenting Ian Cheng's latest “live simulations”—virtual living ecosystems in autonomous evolution—this monograph engages in a dialogue between art, new technologies and neurosciences.
Angela Marzullo - Homeschooling
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Homeschooling (parental education) is at the center of the performance and video work by Angela Marzullo, who, in analyzing critical texts from the '60s and '70s, recreates them involving her two daughters as protagonists. The publication presents a decade of Marzullo's works, highlighting the evocative value and content of images and text.
Enzo Cucchi - Madama Cucchi
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
An interactive catalogue in the form of a map with replicas of the works exhibited by the artist at Turin's Palazzo Madama.
Cristian Chironi - My House is a Le Corbusier / Broken English
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
My House is a Le Corbusier / Broken English is a two-sided book containing two different projects by Cristian Chironi. Intersecting and diverging, both projects raise questions surrounding communication, reading and interpretation and concomitant linguistic and socio-political implications. The double-cover book is divided into two specular sections so the reader can choose to begin with either of the projects.
Francesco Jodice - Panorama
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A deconstructed overview offering the widest selection of Jodice's works ever presented: more than twenty years of eclectic art—alternating between photography, videos and installations.
Elodie Pong - Paradise Paradoxe
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Judith Bernstein - Rising
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.
Matt Mullican - Rubbings - Catalogue – 1984-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).
Stadt auf Achse - Mit Kunst urbane Räume gestalten – Ein Handbuch
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
Vision in Motion - Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
Artforum - June-July-August 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.
Fabian Marti - Bilder 2005-2016
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
Cristian Vogel - Classics Remastered - 1993-1998 (2 CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
Cristian Vogel's best techno tracks from the '90s, entirely remastered and cut from original tapes in 2015.
Even
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 7.50 €
Brazil's artists face multifront crisis, Jordan Wolfson's distressing robot ballet, official repression and crowd-sourced censorship against Istanbul's galleries and artists, interviews with Kaari Upson and Ian Cheng, Malick Sidibé's Bamako nights, Beyoncé's Swiss inheritance, architecture's charity cases, where not to eat in Paris, reviews from Boston, London, Los Angeles, and New York, and a portfolio by Pilar Mata Dupont…
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Le Dictateur - FAQ
2016
no text
Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
Guillaume Bresson - Red Star Football Club
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Considering the relations between art and football through the example of an artwork commissioned by the Red Star Football Club as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France: a polyptych composed of eight oil paintings on wood panels, offering different viewpoints of the stadium and the life of the club.
Syntax and Society - The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 / Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2 books)
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
Beni Bischof - Texte 2
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 2
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 1
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
currently out of stock
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Keith Haring - Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks
2016
no text
Nieves
sold out
A collection of 70 penis drawings inspired by the borough of Manhattan. Made in one day in 1978, this early work forms a singular, ecclectic and playful guided tour of the city—including drawings and series such as Phallic buildings form 7th Ave., Drawing Penises in front of Tiffanys, Penis with doors – Carnegie music hall, The best place to draw penises, Self portrait at home…
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