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2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.
2022
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
293 new digital drawings by the Swiss artist.
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
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Nina Canell's artistic practice does not revolve around the finished artwork; instead, it foregrounds process and synergy. This artist's book/catalogue is based on an experiential installation that considers the material vitality of calcite.
2022
Xing
A dialogue between the visual artist Margherita Morgantin and two musicians and sound makers.
2022
Corvo Records
Since 2002, Berlin based musicians Tony Buck and Magda Mayas have been developing their duo music as SPILL, recording, touring and occasionally collaborating with international guests. Having spent the last 20 years establishing their unique approach to the piano and percussion combination, SPILL celebrates this milestone with the release of their 5th album Mycelium.
2022
Aguirre Records
2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist and composer Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet.
2022
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Nieves
A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
A transversal vision of the affirmation of a global Afro-Asian South through the anti-colonial resistance and war diplomacy of Algerians in Asia and Japan, bringing together history, politics, political philosophy, and poetics.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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The first publication on the archive created by the Swiss writer, painter, activist and prostitute Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) since the 1970s, containing more than 10,000 documents that trace the international mobilizations for the rights of sex workers and their struggles against exclusion and stigmatization.
2022
English edition
Lenz Press
Austrian artist and curator Anna-Sophie Berger here assembles a group of works, from Arakawa and Gins to Lyle Ashton Harris, that register the body as a habitat that can be imaginatively stretched, altered, modified, adorned, replicated or destroyed.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Aesthetics/Ethics of the Flesh.
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Atlas Projectos
An exploration of the work of the Portuguese artist Isabel Carvalho, between visual and writing practices, based on a project conducted around the history of the art center Le Lait, Albi.
2022
Black Truffle
A major addition to the body of carefully hewn solo work Crys Cole has released over the last decade, offering up two side-long suites of her radically intimate approach to sound.
2022
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's edition based on the eponymous project of dancer and choreographer Alix Eynaudi, a choreographic social experiment between the everyday and the event, which makes performance, writing and audience participation coexist.
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A retrospective overview of the work of a pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
AMAC
A retrospective monograph, La Gricole et ses dérives brings together fifty years (1970-2020) of Daniel Nadaud's pathways, loops, advances, drawings, sculptures, installations and notebooks, shaped by the presence of the agricultural world, by history and fragments of childhood.
2022
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The sixth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man
series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a
collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual
landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.
2022
English edition
Artforum
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Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans; Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna; Alexandro Segade on the Ororocene; Travis Diehl on Alexis Smith's Same Old Paradise, 1987...
2022
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The seventh and last issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif is dedicated to the character of an Acrobats ("who are two but together as one," as Thomas Clerc says in his play, The Heptahedron).
2022
English edition
MER. Books
A novel by Liam Gillick.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
Retrospective monograph: an exhaustive overview of more than fifteen years of practice of the Belgian artist whose work oscillates between post-industrial sculptures and post-apocalyptic realism.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
A body of fragmented images and views that draw their iconography from public spaces or from motifs specific to modernity.
2022
English edition
X Artists' Books
This artist newspaper, edited by Asad Raza and Mathew Hale, accompanies a new work by Raza of the same name, which redirects the river through Portikus and invites the public to interact with and dip in the waters of the Main (contributions by Keren Cytter, Emily Dickinson, Dan Graham, Rufus Hale, Catalina Imizcoz, Wolfram Lotz...).
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
This catalogue features an exclusive selection of works created by renowned Belgian painter Koen van den Broek in France, a series on paper based on the architecture of Le Corbusier (Firminy).
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Wirklichkeit Books
A conversation between the political geographer Sinthujan Varatharajah and the artist Moshtari Hilal on gentrification, asylum policy and double standards of the German majority society. Both authors have become leading voices of a new generation on topics such as racism, having ceated a strong counterpublic through their social media in the last years.
2022
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Complete facsimile of The Cricket, an important but underknown music magazine edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal in 1968–69—a rare document of the Black Arts Movement.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A critical anthology on the spatial mediation of art consumption through digital technology.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, a Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition | La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, this book documents the deeply thoughtful responses of eleven international contemporary visual artists to the state of the world in the early twenty-first century.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
X Museum 2020–2021 is the first chapter in a series of annual publications dedicated to the activity of the newly opened museum in Beijing.
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A bilingual text by Alessandro De Francesco that blurs the boundaries between art and poetry.
2022
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
A series of drawings by Valérie du Chéné inspired by press articles, to which Arlette Farge's texts respond.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni echo the fictional world of their films and the real world of their objects and sculptures, at the end of an exhibition-series developed over a decade.
2022
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni echo the fictional world of their films and the real world of their objects and sculptures, at the end of an exhibition-series developed over a decade.
2022
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
The contributors of this book invite readers into a cultural journey at the crossroad of multiple disciplines, allowing them to rediscover the history of this administration from a sensible, intimate point of view.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Dawit L. Petros's expansive suite of works reflecting the lingering effects of colonial brutality and revealing the links between the contemporary resurgence of nationalism and a suppressed colonial past.
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
The series of photomontages on canvas made by Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, a transgressive response of a young Spanish feminist artist to the authoritarian Franco society that conditions thoughts and bodies.
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
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Father and son collaborate on a photographic panorama of humanity.
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Vallois
Monograph dedicated to the productions made in the early 1970s by major Swiss painter of Pop Art and Narrative Figuration Peter Stämpfli, period from which he devotes himself to the figure of the tire.
2022
Touch
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2022 reissue of Fennesz's beautiful 4th solo album, originally released in 2008.
2022
Xing
The score for Romeo Castellucci and Scott Gibbons' stage work.
2022
Sub Rosa
Six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021, played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Art historian and philosopher Horst Bredekamp reveals the importance of visual analysis and the central role of images in the development of the philosophical thought of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Relying mainly on the Leibnizian concept of the monad and on the Theater of Nature and Art, elaborated by the German philosopher and scientist from 1671 until his death, Bredekamp places Leibniz as a precursor of the theory of the image.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The various dimensions of the landscape—mental, cultural and ideological, real and pictorial—in the emblematic works of Poussin, Le Lorrain, Bourdon and their contemporaries of the 17th century.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Frédéric Acquaviva, as Mozart of the assize court, questions, in this only known example of judicial sound art, justice and its functioning, but especially insists on the fragile barrier which separates criminals from honest composers.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
2022
Recital
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Second pressing of Recital's vinyl edition from 2015, perhaps the most approachable and beautiful in all of Loren Connors' catalog.
2022
Sub Rosa
Dark-folk songwriter Chantal Acda and beyond drums-percussion musician extraordinaire Eric Thielemans propose, after Philip Glass, a new score for Koyaanisqatsi, re-actualising the incredibly beautiful, raw, rhythmic and touching images of this 80-ties cinematographic masterpiece.