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Henning Bohl - Fatal Kadath Fatal
2015
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A sequel to Kadath Fatal: drawings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (artist's book).
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Flurina Rothenberger - I love to dress like I am coming from somewhere and I have a place to go
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of photographs which dismantles stereotypes by documenting the actual realities of everyday life in Africa.
Mouvement
2015
French edition
Mouvement
Featuring: interview and portfolio by Michel Houellebecq, Bouchra Ouizguen in Marrakech, which cultural life in New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina? (reportage), a portrait of Tiago Rodrigues, director of the National Theatre of Lisbon, Titus Andronicus's punk opera...
Doug Aitken - Sculptures 2001-2015
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first book entirely dedicated to the sculptures of multimedia artist Doug Aitken, this volume offers an overview of his 3D works and includes a specially commissioned text by acclaimed novelist Steve Erickson.
Sur
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.
Taiping Tianguo – A History of Possible Encounters - Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A touring exhibition which explores the existing and sometimes hypothetical connections that led four Chinese artists to settle down in Eighties' New York.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Tombeau - Autour des œuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Drawing relations between writers' quotes and the works of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (with a text by Benoît Viguier).
Michael Williams -
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of the evolution of New York-based artist Michael Williams' work.
Susanne M. Winterling -
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Light, skin, titan and body-consciousness to navigate between shelter and space: this artist's book shows collages of objects layered around in life size, then spreads out into the book space and installation works using photography and film.
(SIC) - Ivresses
2015
French edition (one text in English)
(SIC)
(SIC) - (SIC) magazine
15.00 7.50 €
This seventh issue gathers six polymorphic texts about the many aspects of drunkenness and intoxication in art and society (with Sébastien S. Th. Biset, Antoine Boute, Emmanuel Giraud, Pierre Hemptinne, Tom Marioni, Véronique Nahoum-Grappe).
Bob Nickas - 69 / 96
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation (vinyl LP)
2015
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.
Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme - Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth conservé au Frac Bretagne
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
This book discusses preservation and outcomes of design-related objects in artistic collections taking the example of Dieter Roth's works inside the Frac Bretagne's collection.
Dérives urbaines
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Boabooks
This collection of photographs was made following an assignment commissioned to eight photographers from eight different neighbourhoods in Geneva. Their photographs were initially exhibited on billboards for the “Vis-à-vis” event. The editorial process resulted in a book on its own, in which various gazes “derive” within their own variations of urban space.
Corinne Laroche - Dessins / Drawings / Zeichnungen
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
various
35.00 17.50 €
First monograph. An overview of French artist Corinne Laroche's work and artistic process since 1995, with two essays and an interview.
Cameron Jamie - Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
America's decoration frenzy: graveyard cemeteries, ghosts, guillotines, skeletons in coffins, dismembered body parts, giant spiders... Halloween horror-themed scenes shot at daylight (artist's book).
Kent Monkman - Interpellations - Three Essays on Kent Monkman
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.
Revue & Corrigée
2015
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Stephen O'Malley, Julien Palomo / Improvising Beings, the Polish scene by Kasper Toeplitz, a history of musical destructions by Matthieu Saladin...
Per-Oskar Leu - Scrim Sinews
2015
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This artist's book documents a dialog, exchange, and collaboration between Per-Oskar Leu and Benjamin Tiven, from summer 2013 through the winter of 2015.
Lisa Beck - The Middle of Everywhere
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Salle de bains
35.00 17.50 €
This reference monograph on New York artist Lisa Beck, who develops since more than 30 years an abstract language which is as playful and discreet as it is effective and sharp, presents a significant body of work ranging from the 1980s to the present, and also offers to revisit Beck' recent solo exhibitions (with essays by Samuel Gross and Bob Nickas).
Amar Kanwar - The Sovereign Forest
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amar Kanwar's extensive project on the social struggles and expropriation issues which take place in the land of Odisha in east India (in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik / Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur).
There is no place like home
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Twenty-nine artists invest a forgotten building site in Roma during 72 consecutive hours without any institutional oversight.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Verifica Incerta (DVD)
2015
original version, subtitles in English and Italian
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
Avant-garde meets Cinecittà: in 1964, artists Baruchello and Griffi edit found footage of Hollywood films from the fifties in Italian version. This original assemblage seeks to disclose the formatting process in the Cinema Industry and offer a new meaning to images.
Volume! - Varia
2015
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
This new “varia” issue of Volume! is made of six papers proposing different while often complementary perspectives on popular music (the role of the Hellfest festival in representations and uses of metal culture, discourses of loudness in rock music, recent evolutions in South American music, Damon Albarn and the English identity, La Monte Young vs The Velvet Underground). Also in the issue: Alf Björnberg and wind harmony, a musical device by Bruno Lefebvre...
World of Matter
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of natural resources. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, “World of Matter” provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
Stéphane Thidet - From Walden To Space (vinyl LP – Picture Disc)
2015
Optical Sound
sold out
This project stages the collision between the book Walden or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1854) and the mission of Mercury Seven (1958) sending men to space. It is a polymorphic work, evoking the questions of autonomy, isolation, solitude, but also contemplation and enlarged perspectives through music and live performance with modular synthesizers.
Jack Smith - Hamlet, mise-en-scène - EXTRA TROUBLE – Jack Smith in Frankfurt
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).
Ixiptla
2015
Spanish edition
Ixiptla
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
Ixiptla vol. 3 explores archaeological heritage and how it is expressed, contaminated or dissolved in the present.
Space is the Place 2014
2015
English edition
Nero
sold out
A selection of xerox copies coming from original drawings reproduced by hand fifty times by twenty artists as part of an editorial game organized by Fabio Marco Micheli and Gigotti Pirovino in 2014 (limited edition).
Olaf Holzapfel - The Technology of the Land / Die Technik des Landes
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
New monograph.
Jeux sérieux - Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l\'essai
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The cinematic essay thought as a hybrid form between fiction and documentary, cinema and contemporary art: a cartography of the contemporary cinematic essay in 47 critical texts written by filmmakers, artists, historians and art theoreticians.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Christodoulos Panayiotou - Two Days after Forever - A Reader on the Choreography of Time
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An alternate temporal manifestation of the themes developped by artist Christodoulos Panayiotou and curator Omar Kholeif at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, in 2015.
Michel Assenmaker - L\'Écart et l\'accolade
2015
French edition
(SIC) - Vase
L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.
Martin Beck - Summer Winter East West
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Summer Winter East West discusses Martin Beck's engagement with display not only as a tool of presentation but also as a form of communication—within and beyond the realm of the exhibition.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (CD)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Suzanne Lacy - Gender Agendas
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Comprehensive monograph of the Californian artist and political activist.
Thierry Davila - Shadow Pieces (David Claerbout)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Dan Graham - Mirror Landscape
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Mirror Landscape weaves together a rich documentation on the design, construction and installation of Two Way Mirror / Hedge Arabesque, the pavilion created by Dan Graham for the sixth edition of “All'Aperto” (Outdoors)—the art event organized by the Fondazione Zegna and curated by Andrea Zegna and Barbara Casavecchia—with a wider overview on the relationship between artwork, viewer and landscape, which runs through the entire production of the artist.
Mousse
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Dora Budor, Martine Syms, On the copy (by Bettina Funcke, Michele Robecchi, Ian Cheng, Liam Gillick, Daniel McClean, Kenneth Goldsmith, Darren Bader, Nick Currie, Martin Clark, grupa o.k.), L'imitation by Philippe Pirotte, Walter Benjamin by Jens Hoffmann, Jim Nutt, Leidy Churchman, Albert Serra, The 80s by Kelly Taxter, Yuri Parrison, Rachel Rose & Ben Russell, Michael Snow & Sharon Lockhart, Aldo Tambellini, Nancy Lupo & Hayley Silverman, f.marquespenteado...
Clément Rodzielski - Aube
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press
First monograph / artist's book.
Invisible Beauty
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the Iraqi Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Heinz Peter Knes - On distance
2015
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A volume of photographs by Heinz Peter Knes representing a small selection from his extensive archive of travel photography dating back to 2010.
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level - J. V. Martin and the Situationist International
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972.
Miriam Sturzenegger - Renovieren
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Boabooks
Miriam Sturzenegger's Renovieren is a compilation of texts about space, time, and the relationship between them, as well as with her work.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot - Rêvolutions
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
An extensive documentation on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's installation for the French Pavilion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Vincent Meessen - Third Form
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph based on an exhibition project based on a critical rereading of Roland Barthes' writings.
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