Contemporary art

A book / magazine to prolong in texts and images a season of exhibitions in 35 French art centers: a guide to apprehend the current art scene and the specificities of its places of exhibition.

The 2nd issue of the creation magazine presents 34 artworks by 24 international artists (works by Olivier Babin, Wim Delvoye, Liam Gillick, Laurent Grasso, Vincent Lamouroux, Mathieu Mercier, Jonathan Monk, Hugues Reip, Didier Rittener, Franck Scurti, Blair Thurman...).

With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

Luxurious publication in a box conceived by the graphic design team documenting the project by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno (limited edition).

Catalogue of an exhibition which assembles the recent work of 50 international artists who interrogate the artificiality of the current world and render up intensified visions of it.

Otra de vaqueros documents the eponymous residency and exhibition project that took place in Mexico City in 2007.

The artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas are representing Lithuania at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. This book documents the artistic process of the Villa Lituania project, collecting the archival material associated with the challenge of building a pigeon loft in Rome, and a visual and textual artists' diary.

Book based on the conference “Canvases and Careers Today” which was initiated by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main.

Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.

The French art scene with 88 art critics and 88 artists, on 800 pages in color.

Expanded catalogue of an exhibition bringing together works on paper by nineteen international artists to explore the notion of landscape, with numerous essays.

An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements.

An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements. The limited editon of the book contains an original and unique drawing signed by the artist.

The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné.

The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné, accompanied with an original signed artwork.

More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.

A film and different documentaries on Francis Alÿs (interviews, video and multimedia projects).

An interview and a video documentary around a collective project directed by Kawamata: a construction of short-lived architectures from 5000 wooden crates.

A luxurious catalogue of Serrano's new body of works, with an essay by Hélène Cixous.

6 films by Amy Granat with Fia Backström, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Angel Turner.

3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.

Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.

Catalogue.

Soun-Gui Kim revisits her interactive installation on the stock movements, “Stock Exchange”, by adding a garden to create an absurd and ironic counterpoint between stock exchange and nature (text and interviews).

One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.

An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions.

Loris Gréaud – Cellar Door / carte blanche to Pascal Rousseau / Frédéric Migayrou / Erik Davis / Bertrand Méheust / Géraldine Fabre / Gianni Motti / exhibition guide and a selection of books, musics, films and events around Cellar Door...

Superdome / Naomi Klein / Daniel Firman / Jonathan Monk / Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni / Arcangelo Sassolino / exhibitions guide and a selection of books, music, movies, and events around Superdome...

Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.

An anthology of drawings by Yona Friedman published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages.

A large catalogue introducing the dreamlike paintings of Corinne Wasmuht: fantastical landscapes layered upon each other, allowing the viewer to enter numerous dimensions at once.

The story of the Centre d'édition contemporaine in Geneva.

Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.

Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.

An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.

Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.

Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).

A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.

A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.

Retrospective catalogue of the French art center.

Retrospective catalogue of the ancient rural synagogue transformed in a major contemporary creation space: installations views, presentation of each exhibition, artists' contributions and essays.

This publication presents the 2004-2006 program of Forde independent contemporary art space (with John Baldessari, Philippe Decrauzat, Scott King, Wade Guyton, Mathieu Mercier, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price...).

The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.

A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.

Retrospective catalogue of the graphic design studio's works.

Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.