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Nicole Tran Ba Vang - Revue - This is not a magazine
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Figures
This magazine-style artist's book by European contemporary artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang parodies the stereotypes and prejudices of advertising and fashion, exploring the fantasies of a consumer society.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings 16
2016
English edition
various
A series of paintings by Swiss artist Emil Michael Klein.
Bernard Villers - Les Éditions du Nouveau Remorqueur - Catalogue raisonné
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).
ECAL - Graphic Design
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne is recognized as a world reference in terms of graphic design. This success is largely based on a strategy of workshops that allow students to learn from the best Swiss and international designers on the school premises. This book retraces projects conducted in the Bachelor's Graphic Design and Master's programs between 2010 to 2015.
Lara Almarcegui - Luxembourg souterrain
2016
French edition
Casino Luxembourg
Luxembourg underground: this artist's book offers a vertical journey through the city's subsoil structure.
Artforum - April 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Richard Serra, Mary Heilmann and Terry Winters on Ellsworth Kelly, Thomas Eggerer on Monika Baer, Douglas Crimp talks with Thomas Beard about “Queer Cinema before Stonewall,” Maggie Lee on her video Mommy, sex and art from Fragonard to Manet, Claire Bishop on Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and exhibition reviews from Los Angeles, London, Düsseldorf, Paris, Beirut, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, and more.
Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Guan Xiao - Prévisions météo
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
The starting point of this publication and of the work it accompanies is travel, and more specifically, the wave of new perceptions that travel brings and the transformation that it causes. Artist Guan Xiao compares the volatility of this process with the fluctuation of the weather.
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Carlo Mollino - Giappone 1970
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Kaspar Müller - Frankfurt Freakout
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication showcases a selection of photographs taken by the artist, over a year-long period, in second-hand shops, flea markets, antique stores and auction houses in Berlin.
 Goldschmied & Chiari - La démocratie est illusion
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This monographic catalogue collects the visuals of works focusing on the relationship between the activities of the intelligence agencies and magic practices during the Cold War era.
Emanuel Röhss - Location Scout
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
Ull Hohn - Foregrounds, Distances
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Elisabeth Bronfen - Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Elisabeth Bronfen gives a clever analysis on one of the most influential show of the 21th century, arguing that, beyond the retro-revival, Mad Men builds a comment on the state of the US nation and on the mirage of the American Dream.
Jean-Michel Alberola -
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.
 Bastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard - Paris céramique
2016
French edition
Nieves
sold out
Paris céramique is the result of a four-day ceramic workshop that took place in Paris in 2013 with Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, and Adrien Horni, following an invitation by Thomas Mailaender.
Bruno Peinado - L\'écho / ce qui sépare
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
L'écho / ce qui sépare documents a personal and collective exhibition commissioned by Bruno Peinado where young artists were invited by Peinado to display their works with his own, thus reflecting the notions of space and network within the art field.
Ann Craven - Time
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
In more than two hundred artworks, the American artist's reference monograph focuses on the fundamentals of her painting, strongly impregnated by notions of time, profusion, systemising and commitment.
Henri Pousseur - Early Experimental Electronic Music 1954-72 (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
This seventh and penultimate installment in the series Henri Pousseur had programmed around his experimental and electronic music features his earliest works—his first steps—starting in 1954, when at twenty-five he composed his first piece of electronic music in the studios of the Cologne radio, where Stockhausen had created most of his famous pieces.
Bomb
2016
English edition
Bomb
sold out
35 year anniversary issue featuring interviews with Ryan Trecartin, Shezad Dawood, Sadie Benning, Wendy Ewald, Trevor Paglen & Jacob Appelbaum, Ivan Vladislavić, Álvaro Enrigue, Christopher Sorrentino, Vijay Iyer, Yorgos Lanthimos, artists on artists' section with Naufus Ramírez Figueroa by Regina José Galindo and Anna K.E. by Corrine Fitzpatrick, literary fictions by Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter, Kate Zambreno, Domenick Ammirati, poetry by Joan Retallack, John Ashbery, Eugene Ostashevsky, Daniel Poppick, exhibitions and books' reviews...
Gabriel Sierra - (The title of the exhibition changed every hour)
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierra's site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. The book expands on and further examines the topics and ideas of the exhibition, that of the relation between the body and its spatio-temporal framework.
Individual Stories - Collecting as Portrait and Methodology
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.
Colin Crouch - L\'étrange survie du néolibéralisme
2016
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
The new impact of corporations on both the state and the market as the new paradigm of neoliberalism.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
Artforum - March 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Tony Oursler and Greil Marcus on David Bowie, Jackson Pollock's late work, the Met Breuer, Cameron Rowland, an exclusive portfolio from Rosemarie Castoro, plus Magali Reus's Top Ten, the band Porches, and exhibition reviews from New York, Berlin, Lisbon, Milan, Prague, Athens, Delhi, Mexico City, and more.
Volume! - Special Beatles Studies
2016
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Special Beatles Studies issue.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
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.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
Fredrik Værslev - Reality Bites
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reality Bites is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Fredrik Værslev, analyzed through rich visual content and texts by Matias Faldbakken, Alberto Salvadori and Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, as well as a conversation between the artist and Josh Smith.
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe (book / DVD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.
Victor Burgin - Projectif - Essais sur l\'œuvre de Victor Burgin
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Victor Burgin - Scripts
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
Francesco Clemente - After Omeros
2016
English edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
41 watercolors and two installations' views by Francesco Clemente created after the poem Omeros by Derek Walcott—for which he received the Nobel Price—including excerpts from the poem.
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
Kassel Jaeger - Zauberberg (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
An electroacoustic meditation on memories and on the persistence of the aura in a particular place, inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
John Stezaker - Unassisted Readymade
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
 Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Ordnung und Reinlichkeit
2016
no text
Nieves
Reissue of a booklet from 1981, this suite of drawn charts and diagrams was originally published to accompany the films of Rat and Bear—Fischli & Weiss fictional alter egos, and symbols of Western culture's faith on contraries.
David Toop - Life on the inside (vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Life on the inside is a limited edition of an audio companion to French sculptor Pierre Besson's exhibition at Le Carré in 2014—an excellent addition to the David Toop discography of any wide-ranging ambient fan.
 Lilly Joel - What Lies In The Sea (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
13.00 9.50 €
What Lies In The Sea is the fruit of a ten year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and true, much-lauded innovators in their respective fields.
Leo Kupper - Santur - Occident / Orient (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Two different approaches—the Eastern and Western—to Persian instrument Santur, by musicians Hossein Malek and Leo Kupper.
 Book of Air - Fieldtone (2 vinyl LP)
2016
Sub Rosa
Book of Air is a series of bundled compositions exploring the parameters of sound and time. Their first reseale Fieldtone is a beautiful “acoustic ambient” / dark jazz four-tracks recording inspired by the musicality and silence of nature.
Walead Beshty - 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters - Selected Writings (2003-2015)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
Dario Gamboni - Images potentielles - Ambiguïté et indétermination en art moderne
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.
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