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Maurizio Nannucci - Where to Start From
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive monograph covering Nannucci's whole career and presenting a selection of his major projects.
 eRikm - L\'art de la fuite (vinyl LP)
2015
Sonoris
L'art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist / improviser / composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.
Collect Digital Video Art
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The guide of the video and digital art collection.
Espace art actuel - Migrations-Borders
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special “Migrations & Borders” issue: texts by Bernard Schütze, Geneviève Chevalier, and Michael Blum, Milutin Gubash by Chantal T. Paris, François Morelli by Bernard Lamarche, interview with Aram Han Sifuentes, Dominique Sirois-Rouleau's essay on outdoor art, the usual features…
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
(last copies available!)
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
Stefan Banz - Louis Michel Eilshemius - Peer of Poet-Painters
2015
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.
Joji Koyama - Plassein
2015
no text
Toupée
25.00 15.00 €
A series of short visual stories designed with refinement by Japanese artist Koyama, whose subtle's pencil stroke, narrative use of geometric forms and application to render textures contributed to build a most fascinating artist's book.
Revue & Corrigée
2015
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Sophie Agnel, Anne Montaron, Vivian Grezzini, frederic dumond, Kasper T Toeplitz on the notion of composition...
Screamscape - Institut international de recherche sur le cri
2015
French edition
Clinamen
This broadsheet publication documents and extends the investigations initiated during the first edition of Screamscape, an informal international institute of creation and research on screaming.
Semaine
2015
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Up to date / Art, biology, (Al)Chem(istr)y / Etre étonné, c'est un bonheur ! (Ardouvin, Bagot, Barbazanges, Brial, Chotard, Darrot, Davrinche, Pierre & Gilles, Rauzier, Rousseau, Villeglé) / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot / Jocelyn Robert / Pascal Pinaud.
Sam Falls - The Four Seasons Forever
2015
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The Four Seasons Forever is the catalogue of Sam Falls' one year show which presents 13 sun-printed photograms of vinyls on colored textiles exhibited in a dramatic stage-like atmosphere, with parts of Vivaldi's masterpiece playing according to the season (artist's book, the first in a series published in limited editions by Flash Art).
 BlackNox - We don\'t believe in Heaven (vinyl LP)
2015
Optical Sound
The first live recording of the duo formed by Gerome Nox (sound) and Black Sifichi (spoken words and texts).
Art in the Periphery of the Center
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.
Phil Collins - My heart\'s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand\'s in  the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Nero
sold out
A sound installation and collaborative project with a survival station for the homeless in Cologne (color vinyl, with David Sylvian, Demdike Stare, Pye Corner Audio, Pluramon...).
Toilet Paper - Volume II
2015
English edition
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Second volume of the Toilet Paper book, gathering all of the images published in the last six issues of the magazine, also including a significant portion of previously unpublished images.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
Jaanus Samma - Not Suitable for Work - A Chairman\'s Tale
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This two-volume publication tells the story of Juhan Ojaste, an Estonian gay icon, and tackles the issue of homophobia in authoritarian political regimes. Not Suitable for Work attempts to create counter-narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities (catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).
Jens Hoffmann - Theater of Exhibitions
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice.
Realism Materialism Art
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Cutting across diverse thematic interests and modes of investigation, the thirty-five essays in Realism Materialism Art (RMA) offer a snapshot of the emerging and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices proposed by contemporary realisms and materialisms, and examine their ramifications on the arts.
Guttu Ane Hjort - Eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
2015
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This substantial monograph gathers reflections on Ane Hjort Guttu's recent film projects and offers insight into the artist's work and methodology, and the potential of art as a critical and political tool.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
Maya Schweizer - Lieux de Mémoire and Desire
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Five cinematic works examining how the artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial.
Mathilde ter Heijne - Performing Change
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This artist's book gathers a collection of interviews by artist Mathilde ter Heijne, exploring the idea of open-ended, collaborative art processes and their transformative potential beyond the confines of art.
Sculpture Unlimited 2 - Materiality in Times of Immateriality
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The second volume of Sculpture Unlimited looks at the influence of new technologies on the practice of sculpture.
Flaka Haliti - Speculating on the Blue
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through the use of a saturated blue color altered by light and demarcated by architectural forms, Haliti's installation for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale reflects on the salient concepts of the border, freedom and mobility. This extensive documentation is an invitation to encounter a visual field in which territorial boundaries are referenced and mediated by the sensory.
Gil Pellaton - Triple Man
2015
no text
various
A new series of oil paintings by Swiss artist which unveils the strange and wonderful aspects of common life.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
E Il Topo
2015
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's magazine.
Jean-Christophe Averty - Initiales - Initiales J.C.A.
2015
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Jean-Christophe Averty.
Toilet Paper - Kenzine #4
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29.00 22.00 €
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Jesper Just -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Sigmar Polke - Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Luca Trevisani - Grand Hotel et des Palmes
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Nero
sold out
Luca Trevisiani stamps images derived from antique herbaria and design magazines on objects with heterogeneous surfaces (textiles, clothing, tropical leaves, minerals).
Marie Bovo -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Reference monograph: an overview of Marie Bovo's work, juxtaposing her latest projects with her emblematic photographic series, inspired by Mediterranean cultures (each series being put into perspective with the corresponding exhibition views), with two essays and an interview.
Claude Closky - Rectangulaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.
Ján Mančuška - First Inventory
2015
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph: this first retrospective publication gathers together Mančuška's work, which combined different media—literature, film, theater, installations, video, and text—was exhibited widely, from the second half of the 1990s to his last unrealized projects from 2011.
Justin Lieberman - The Corrector\'s Custom Pre-Fab House
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
A 300 page pulp book, compiling a series of 230 short texts by Justin Lieberman in alphabetical order, as well as an essay telling the story of a now-destroyed installation piece, to which the texts were originally related: “The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House”. The texts, with their sarcastic tone, can be read autonomously: they are a meditation on capitalism and material culture, between poetry, description and fiction.
François Ristori -
2015
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
sold out
A tribute to François Ristori (new monograph).
Ziran / Nature - Art, Nature, and Ethics
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.
Textiles - Open Letter
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Rike Frank and Grant Watson's research project examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works.
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Sébastien Roux - Issues (vinyl LP)
2015
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Books, editions & records
Issues results from the invitation made to Sébastien Roux to compose from the six issues' collection of the contemporary art magazine about sound Volume, released between 2010 and 2013, using the textual corpus as a generator of scores to write and eventually have performed.
Toys Redux - An Anthology on Play as Critical Action
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
This catalogue interrogates the notion of play in contemporary art, bringing together artists who use formats and imagery from popular culture usually addressed to children or teenagers.
Mike Bouchet - Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.
Kour Pour -
2015
English edition
Nero
35.00 20.00 €
Inspired by Persian tapestry, Kour Pour's paintings are highlighting the artist's interest in the cyclic life of images, shifted back-and-forth between the online realm and the material world. This first monograph includes images of all the paintings on display, some installation views and a photographic documentation of the art work's making process, along with an essay by the curator Nicola Ricciardi.
Art Altstetten Albisrieden - A Public Art Project
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
Art and the City 2.0.
Descartes\' Daughter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Taking the historical account of philosopher René Descartes' creation of an animatronic effigy of his deceased young daughter as its foundation, Descartes' Daughter explores the traditional divide between conceptual and expressive works, those dealing with either the mind or the body (catalogue).
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