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Dan Rees - Road Back To Relevance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Road Back To Relevance gives insight into the last decade of Dan Rees's practice. It brings together groups of works—paintings, videos, installations, and photography—that have never before been viewed simultaneously, and reveals the complex nature of the artist's research.
John McCracken -
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An artistic dialogue between German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken.
Performing The Institution(al) - Vol. 4 & 5
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
These volumes document Kunsthalle Lissabon's fourth and fifth year of activity, which happened between 2013 and 2014.
Ulla von Brandenburg - It Has a Golden Yellow Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Part monograph, part artist's book, a publication accompanying Ulla von Brandenburg's eponymous video work—a “danced film” dedicated to color.
Amie Siegel - Ricochet #10 - Double Negative
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A dialogue between the works of contemporary artist Amie Siegel and the historical spaces of the Villa Stuck in Munich (monographic catalogue).
Maxime Bondu - Glances in the reflecting surface of the rear-view mirror - Information, speculation and probability in Maxime Bondu\'s work
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Aparté
20.00 9.00 €
This first monograph dedicated to Maxime Bondu's work includes an essay by Daniel Kurjakovic and focuses on nine of the artist's essential installations. Numerous sketches, drawings, mock-ups, archival material and exhibition views contribute to throw light on an experimental, speculative oeuvre that explores alternative readings of the world, history and society.
Tadashi Kawamata - Under the Water
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
New monograph: a photographic documentation on the site-specific works Under the Water at the Centre Pompidou Metz and gallery Kamel Mennour, completed with visual archives covering over thirty years of practice (1979-2015), and a focus on the artist's roof installations from 1995 to 2015.
Gustav Metzger - Act or Perish! - A Retrospective
2016
English edition
Nero
sold out
The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).
Jimmie Durham - Sound and Silliness
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
A hybrid publication beween a catalogue and an artist's book, articulated on two different registers: a flip-book consisting of the frames of the two videos shown in the exhibition at MAXXI, published on all of the right pages in the book; and a section of critical texts and images documenting the exhibition, on the left.
Stefan Brüggemann - Showtitles
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
Oriol Vilanova - Without Distinction
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
Starting from the art collection of the museum M in Leuven, Vilanova reflects on the artof exhibiting and explores display modes from showcases to postcards.
Brandon LaBelle - Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Errant Bodies
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Raphael Hefti - A) Negligence Causing a Fire
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Poet Harry Burke recounts an extreme and barely legal experiment led by artist Raphael Hefti in a mountain village in Switzerland in 2008 (artist's book).
Ivan Picelj - The Concrete Utopia - Ivan Picelj and New Tendencies – 1961-1973
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This exhibition catalogue dedicated to Croatian artist Ivan Picelj provides a much needed closer look at the international neo-avantgardes of programmed art, taking a critically systematic approach to the investigation currently underway.
May Hands - A.E. Abstract Existence
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
This volume documents a series of site-specific works by four artists looking at existence from an abstractionist point of view.
Sam Falls - Resonance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic attempt to capture the elusive nature of the Californian landscape.
André Guedes - Sketches for an Anthology
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Cura. - Cura.books
Addressing fifteen years—from 1999 to 2014—of André Guedes's artistic practice, this monograph also proves to be the medium of a reflexion on anthological exhibitions.
Maaike Schoorel - Elemento
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
A comprehensive monograph, including preparatory documents and two essays by Jens Hoffmann and Alessandro Rabottini to better understand the delicate paintings of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel.
Tony Oursler - Imponderable - The Archives of Tony Oursler
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).
Caroline Sury - Exorsurisation
2016
no text
United Dead Artists
Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.
Michael Corris - Leaving Skull City - Selected Writings on Art
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A compilation of insightful, first-hand accounts of art making, art criticism, and exhibition organizing from the early-1970s to the present.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - Sunset Boulevard
2016
English edition
Nero
This artist's book presents a series of polaroids taken from inside a moving car's trunk portraying a dream-like sunbathed Los Angeles landscape, or indeed, an image that is now firmly imprinted in the collective imagination—asphalt, cars and palm trees silhouetted against expansive skies.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Initiales - Initiales N.D.P.
2016
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Nathalie du Pasquier.
Bomb
2016
English edition
Bomb
7.50 3.50 €
Bomb's Summer Issue: interviews with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Wadada Leo Smith, Dmitry Krymov, Patricia Treib, Lee Clay Johnson, Jesse Ball & Catherine Lacey, Jason Simon, Vince Staples, “artists on artists” section with Frederick Terna by Stephen Westfall, Brandan “Bmike” Odums by Zachary Lazar, Rebecca Smith by John Newman, David Brody by Elliott Green, portfolio by Steel Stillman, fiction and poetry, exhibitions and books' reviews…
Andreas Tschersich - Peripher
2016
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.
Vidya Gastaldon - Les rescapés
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
New monograph.
Annette Le Fort - Phonetic Skin - A Library of Voices (CD)
2016
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.
Marguerite Humeau -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Mika Rottenberg -
2016
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.
Leonor Antunes - The tiny pliable plane (box set)
2016
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A series of seven silk-screen prints depicting close-up images of Antunes's sculptures inspired by the works of Anni Albers and Lina Bo Bardi (artist's edition).
Beni Bischof - Rambo
2016
no text
Nieves
sold out
Over 300 watercolors inspired by the film Rambo II (artist's book).
Tina Braegger - The Grateful Dead - A Diary by Gabriel Krampus
2016
English edition
various
sold out
The fictional diary of Gabriel Krampus, an artist who has been living with his artist wife on a deserted island of the Indian ocean for 44 years.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Claudia Losi - How do I imagine being there?
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
What language should be used to describe a place? This question is the starting point and the core question of Claudia Losi's project and namesake book, a collection of transversal contributions, from art to geography, from semiotics to psychology, which interrogates the way we perceive places and the role of our imagination in such a process.
Nanna Debois Buhl - Palm Tree Studies in South Tyrol and Beyond
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Botanical trajectories and symbolic dimensions of Merano's palm trees (artist's book).
Charlemagne Palestine - GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents Charlemagne Palestine's eponymous solo exhibition, including his early video works, sculptures, paintings, installations, and sound scores.
Judith Bernstein - Rising
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.
Wang Yuyang - Tonight I shall meditate upon that which I am (box set)
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
sold out
First bilingual comprehensive monograph on Wang Yuyang, these volumes delve into Wang Yuyang's practice, focusing particularly on his eponymous solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2015.
Lara Favaretto - Ageing Process
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A manual / first monograph on Lara Favaretto's works comprising iconographic documentation and complementary essays by critics and specialists.
Oliver Osborne - European Paintings
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Francesco Vezzoli - Museo Museion
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of Vezzoli's double project at Museion: as guest curator, presenting an exhibition of the Museion collection, and as artist, with the first complete retrospective of his sculptural work.
Francesco Jodice - Panorama
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A deconstructed overview offering the widest selection of Jodice's works ever presented: more than twenty years of eclectic art—alternating between photography, videos and installations.
Olivia Plender - Rise Early, Be Industrious
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
In specially commissioned essays, as well as interviews, archival material, and new texts by the artist, this first monograph addresses the in-depth investigation of Plender's research and artwork into educational models and their relation to social organization.
Wendelien Van Oldenborgh - Amateur
2016
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Amateur is the first comprehensive publication about Wendelien van Oldenborgh's moving image works, and their accompanying installations.
Cally Spooner - Peep-Hole Sheet - On False Tears and Outsourcing
2016
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A selection of notes on Cally Spooner's forthcoming novel—shaped as a map of potential starts, plots and snippets of dialogue between possible characters.
Betty Woodman - Theatre of the Domestic
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Ten years of ceramic work by an important figure among post-war artists.
Chen Zhen - Without going to New York and Paris, life could be internationalized
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhen's unique way of questioning his experience of globalization through art.
Susanne Kriemann - Duskdust
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A photographic artist's book focusing on a former cement factory in Sweden. Kriemann's concern with archaeology, archival materials, and lost narratives is once again affirmed in this publication which came as the result of a residency program in Gotland Island and for which she collaborated with poet Maria Barnas and writer Kirsty Bell, among others.
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