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Józef Robakowski - Nearer–Farther
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
First major catalogue dedicated to one of the biggest representatives of Polish art and experimental cinema, Józef Robakowski. The publication presents some of the artist's most significant works and his research on the language of film and montage. It includes and interview with Marina Abramović, one of Robakowski's colleague at the time of the Soviet Union.
Michael Tedja - The Holarium - Negeren Series 818:32
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.
Tarek Atoui - The Reverse Collection / The Reverse Sessions
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue documenting the Lebanese-born artist's eponymous project, which started as a sonic experimentation project with objects from the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. This work, which was later contucted at the kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico and at the Tate Modern, gave rise to various events and interventions, concerts and workshops.
Nick Mauss - Intricate Others
2017
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Invited to forge a dialogue with the unique context of the Art Deco building of the Serralves Villa in Porto, American artist Nick Mauss created works that reflect an encounter with the social and private choreographies of the formerly grand and domestic spaces of the Villa. The catalogue includes an essay by the American author and poet, Lucy Ives and an interview with Nick Mauss, conducted by João Ribas, the exhibition's curator.
Otobong Nkanga - Luster and Lucre
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
First monograph documenting a three-year research on the mineral mica that became the ground for multidisciplinary outcomes, including poems, intricate drawings, modular sculptures that form systems of display, and performances.
Jacques Charlier - Un art sans identité
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
Catalogue dedicated to one of the pioneers of European conceptual art, whose work adopts a critical approach of the art world and the avant-garde. The publication offers an overview of the Belgian artist's career, and gathers texts by Jean-Michel Botquin from 1960 to 1980, and recent contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Denys Riout, Denis Gielen, and Serge Bonati.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang !
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, this leporello by Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst.
Daniel Spoerri - Cent ans sans sang ! - Limited edition
2017
bilingual edition (German / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Celebrating the 100th title in the “L'art en écrit” series, Daniel Spoerri plays on the homonyms of the word “cent,” as a tribute to Marx Ernst. Published as a leporello, this artist's book features an original artwork signed by the artist.
Silvia Bächli - Situer la différence
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Bächli & Hattan's publication features the 1:1-scale reproduction of certain pieces exhibited during a joint show at Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris. The reproductions take the form of printed sheets that have been folded and inserted in a plastic sleeve. It comes with a booklet featuring an interview of the two artists by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser, along with a text by Patrick Javault.
Charlotte Birnbaum - On the Table 5 - Bon! Bon! – On the Charms of Sweet Cuisine
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
The fifth publication in the On the Table series, that explore the encounter between food and art, Bon! Bon! uncovers the wonderful world of all things sugary through surprising anecdotes and historical accounts, each accompanied by delectable recipes that are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Frank Kofsky - Conversation
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
currently out of stock
First French translation of the famous 1966 interview with the American saxophonist by writer and jazz specialist Frank Kofsky.
Peter Piller - Materialien (H) - Irrläufer
2017
no text
Nieves
A parallel side story of the steirischer herbst International Art Festival drawn from the back-sides of cut-out articles from the festival's press archives.
 Tarab - An Incomplete Yet Fixed Idea (vinyl LP)
2017
Aposiopèse
22.00 17.50 €
An electroacoustic psycho-geographical composition made from field recordings collected from 2011 to 2016.
Myriam El Haïk - Pièce pour quatre toy pianos
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Music score for four toy pianos, revolving around four notes—A, B, C, and E. Inscribed in the minimalist aesthetic of contemporary music, the piece was inspired by the rhythm of traditional Moroccan ceremonial music. With an essay by video artist and writer Laëtitia Laguzet.
Joan Ayrton - Slow Melody Time Old
2017
no text
Florence Loewy
A timeless photographic ballad, through a few shots taken in the archeology museum in Athens.
Artforum - November 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
This November Artforum looks at Art and Virtual Reality: Douglas Coupland talks with Daniel Birnbaum about the future of technology and desire and Alyssa K. Loh discusses virtuality and empathy. Plus Cheryl Finley on “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” Greil Marcus on Slash: A Punk Magazine from Los Angeles, 1977-80; Jackie Neudorf on Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts, and more.
Sarah Vadé - Boy
2017
no text
Tombolo Presses
Anthology of selected commercial ads published within the US Playboy from 1960 to 2003, Boy constitutes a visual commentary on the normative representations of desire and on the masculine consumer's ideal of life at the end of the 20th century.
Hicham Lasri - Fawda
2017
texts in French and in Arabic
Kulte Editions
At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
(last copies available!)
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
Ugo Mulas - Danimarca 1961
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In 1961, L'Illustrazione Italiana sends critic Giorgio Zampa and photographer Ugo Mulas to carry out a reportage in Denmark. Along their meetings with writer Karen Blixen or Nobel Prize Nils Bohr, the two correspondents also witness the new manifestations of the Scandinavian lifestyle, characterized by its design and its modern habitats.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Intervals and forms of stones of stars
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A biological investigation of a Nordic man-made beach landscape through a series of cameraless photographic registrations of the site's flora, fauna, and particles.
Michele Lombardelli - Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Los Angeles 1989 Tokyo 1991 brings together a collection of images from two of the most complex and undefinable metropolises on the face of the Earth, the social and urban form of which is ceaselessly reshaped by the minimal existence of millions of people in movement. Lombardelli's photographs are also cinematographic homages to the works of Wim Wenders and Yasujirō Ozu.
Gianni Pettena - The Curious Mr. Pettena - Rambling around USA – 1971-73
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
The Curious Mr. Pettena recounts various steps along a journey, through cities and wide open natural spaces, undertaken by the anarchitect Gianni Pettena at the start of the 1970s across the United States.
Félicia Atkinson - Ambient Park
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Ricocheting quietly between photographic landscapes, drawn abstractions and poetic recollections, this artist's book assumes the form of a deferred performance. Serving as a kind of response to the French artist and experimental musician's recent sonic and visual output, the book comprises a series of film stills shot during her travels to New Mexico and Arizona, overlaid with a collection of at once crude and delicate drawings made in Australia.
 Gaillard & Claude - Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot
2017
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot narrates the story of four members of an orchestra who animatedly chat during a break backstage at the Henry Le Bœuf concert hall in Brussels. Through gossip, arguments, and existential crises, they shake the axioms and notions of community, authenticity and happiness. The dialogues by Lili Reynaud-Dewar are illustrated by Kristien Daem's photographs of Gaillard & Claude's sculptures.
Gilbert Lascault - Saveurs imprévues et secrètes - Une anthologie de textes sur l\'art
2017
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Collection of texts (1968-1994) by French art critic Gilbert Lascault.
Adrian Paci - The Guardians
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at the Chiostri di Sant'Eustorgio museum complex in Milan: the works of Adrian Paci enter in dialogue with the frescoes and the space of the Diocesan museum, and draw on a narrative dominated by stories of migration and the relationship to religion.
Prometheus Unbound
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
What defines cultures? How enduring are they over time? And where are the origins of the foundations of what we regard today as European culture? This catalogue examines questions that emerge as soon as the discussion turns to culture. It gathers works by Jonathas de Andrade, Lothar Baumgarten, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Clemens von Wedemeyer, and Aimée Zito Lema.
Espace art actuel - Shivers
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue addresses the shiver and explores the affective dimension in the field of art. With: Aseman Sabet on Stendhal syndrome; poetic images and waking dreams in contemporary art; the aesthetic shudder, from Nietzsche to Castellucci; Anicka Yi; Myriam Lefkowitz; interview with Sophie Jodoin; the Venice Biennale and Manif d'art 8; reviews and selected publications…
Laurence Rasti - There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.
Jacopo Benassi - Paris is in Asia
2017
English edition
Bruno
Collection of black & white photographs celebrating Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento in Paris. The volume is risograph-printed and enclosed in a silk-screened slipcase. With a quite striking foreword by no-wave priestess Lydia Lunch.
Francisca Silva - 25 Memoranden
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
First artist's book: 25 poetic notes on love written on a memorandum.
Haegue Yang - Lingering Nous
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, documenting 21 installations conceived by Haegue Yang during the past decade.
John Zorn - 1977-1981 (vinyl LP + book box set)
2017
Song Cycle Records
sold out
A collection of rare free-jazz pieces performed by John Zorn and selected by the American guitarist and music critic Eugene Chadbourne. Originally released in 1998 to accompany the book release Sonora: John Zorn, the album is presented here for the first time in an exclusive release in limited edition on vinyl. This special issue includes the original book that features exclusive interviews, essays and photos about the artist's entire oeuvre up to 1988.
David & Tania Willen - Appetite for the Magnificent
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...
Nora Schultz - Centre Dental
2017
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book based on Schultz eponymous work, a video project based on the German artist's sculptural installation at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, and filmed by a flying robot camera.
Artforum - October 2017
2017
English edition
Artforum
Artforum looks at Russia and the Art of Revolution: A century after the Soviet uprising of October 1917, Matthew S. Witkovsky, Devin Fore, and Owen Hatherley look back—and forward—at the fate of radical culture, utopia, and politics; architect David Adjaye talks about design, culture, and society; Ina Blom on Ed Atkins and the science of weather simulation; and more.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Sven Sachsalber - A B BC
2017
English edition
Nero
sold out
A B BC is an artist book by Sven Sachsalber which collects 150 collages made in the last five years out of the notorious Artforum's back advertising covers of Bruno Bischofberger Gallery.
Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks
2017
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.
Valentine Schlegel - Je dors, je travaille
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
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sold out
Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).
Bart Julius Peters - Tricks
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
sold out
Tricks brings together a new selection of works from the early 2000s through 2017 by Dutch photographer Bart Julius Peters. The book's starting point is a series of photographs taken in the spring of 2008 depicting the green landscape and the empty pavilions at the Venice Biennale's Giardini.
Fouad Elkoury - Passing Time
2017
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
sold out
The publication Passing Time by Fouad Elkoury looks back at 60 years (1960-2017) of photographs taken in Lebanon by the artist. Most of the images have never been published.
Fouad Elkoury - Passing Time
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
sold out
The publication Passing Time by Fouad Elkoury looks back at 60 years (1960-2017) of photographs taken in Lebanon by the artist. Most of the images have never been published.
Pietro Roccasalva -
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph surveying ten years of work centered around painting, with forays in other forms of art. The Italian artist's conceptual universe interweaves personal experiences with references to art history, literature, and music as well as to cinema.
Pierre Bismuth - Things I Remember I Have Done, But Don\'t Remember Why I Did Them - Towards a Catalogue Raisonné
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Two-volume publication gathering a booklet accompanying Pierre Bismuth's 2015 solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, and a catalogue raisonné indexing his typically serial and often humorous work of the last three decades.
 Invernomuto - Calendoola - UTU
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Publication documenting the pilot episode of a series of video works by Invernomuto that avails itself of the structure and production processes of a TV series. This episode deals with the true story of a conflict between natives and settlers in New Zealand during the eighties.
Francis Meslet - Mind Travels (+ CD)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Ici, d'ailleurs… - Mind Travels (books)
Photographic book celebrating the collaboration between the “UrbEx” photographer Francis Meslet and the “Mind Travels” Series—a series of albums dedicaded to ambient, neo-classical, and industrial music produced by French music label Ici, d'ailleurs. Meslet's photographs of abandoned places give a special echo to the musical approach of the series. The publication is sold with an audio compilation of selected musical pieces taken in the “Mind Travels” Series.
Leonard Qylafi - Occurrence in Present Tense / Ndodhi në kohën e tashme
2017
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The catalogue of the Albanian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale presents the work of painter and video artist Leonard Qylafi, whose practice has recently been focusing on processes of change and recollection. The featured works investigate the history of Albania and reflect on the nature of the image as such.
Tom Humphreys - Plates
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book documenting works produced by Tom Humphrey between 2009 and 2016 using industrially manufactured ceramic plates as a support medium. This extensive volume reproduces four hundred and twenty works from this series at a one-to-one scale, in precisely rendered photographs.
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