search results for "the contemporary condition"
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.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
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.
2016
English edition
Artforum
Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.
2016
Sub Rosa
Cristian Vogel's best techno tracks from the '90s, entirely remastered and cut from original tapes in 2015.
2016
English edition
Even
15.00 € 7.50 €
Brazil's artists face multifront crisis, Jordan Wolfson's distressing robot ballet, official repression and crowd-sourced censorship against Istanbul's galleries and artists, interviews with Kaari Upson and Ian Cheng, Malick Sidibé's Bamako nights, Beyoncé's Swiss inheritance, architecture's charity cases, where not to eat in Paris, reviews from Boston, London, Los Angeles, and New York, and a portfolio by Pilar Mata Dupont…
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.
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.
2016
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Le Dictateur
Le Dictateur Press - Le Dictateur
(last copies available!)
FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, the first volume includes works by Thomas Bayrle, Neil Beloufa, Caroll Dunham, Andra Ursuta, Jon Rafman, Kathy Grannan, Llyn Foulkes, Camille Henrot, Steven Shaerer, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Judith Bernstein among many others, and will expand into a yearly series.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
My House is a Le Corbusier / Broken English is a two-sided book containing two different projects by Cristian Chironi. Intersecting and diverging, both projects raise questions surrounding communication, reading and interpretation and concomitant linguistic and socio-political implications. The double-cover book is divided into two specular sections so the reader can choose to begin with either of the projects.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Considering the relations between art and football through the example of an artwork commissioned by the Red Star Football Club as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France: a polyptych composed of eight oil paintings on wood panels, offering different viewpoints of the stadium and the life of the club.
2016
English edition (texts in English and Arabic)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This double publication offers further investigation into the work of the recipients and shortlisted artists of ninth installment of The Abraaj Group Art Prize (Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled, Basir Mahmood, and award-winning artists duo Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme).
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
2016
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Nieves
sold out
A collection of 70 penis drawings inspired by the borough of Manhattan. Made in one day in 1978, this early work forms a singular, ecclectic and playful guided tour of the city—including drawings and series such as Phallic buildings form 7th Ave., Drawing Penises in front of Tiffanys, Penis with doors – Carnegie music hall, The best place to draw penises, Self portrait at home…
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The book documents a mixed-media installation by Sam Falls where the artist explores ways of faithfully representing time and understanding it through art. For Falls, time is elusive and the future is “filled with meaning” only when it becomes “now”. The present, divided between past and future, has the optimism of production and the melancholy of aging.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Ten years of ceramic work by an important figure among post-war artists.
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.
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
Cristian Vogel's best techno tracks from the '90s, entirely remastered and cut from original tapes in 2015.
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.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A collection of unpublished or rare texts by architect and theoretician Frederick Kiesler written between 1927 and 1957.
2016
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
Recording of Hermann Nitsch's mighty pipe organ concert in Berlin, January 22, 2016.
2016
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
2016
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
sold out
Limited edition, with Toilet Paper fan included!
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.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 € 5.00 €
The catalogue of Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi's first exhibition in France. On this occasion they created an installation using LED lights and smartphones—a new work combining the real and the virtual, the seen and the unseen. This volume also gives an overall comprehension of Manabe and Ishibashi's practice: together they merge art and technology in projects that are at the cutting edge of innovation.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A photographic documentation of an installation work by Abraham Cruzvillegas as part of his “autoconstrucción” project referring to the concepts of incommunicability and intelligibility through the figures of Mexican composer Julián Carrillo and Günter Grass's fictional character Oskar Matzerath.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
Combining the artist's early works and the most recent series inspired by van Gogh's oeuvre, this monograph underlines the variety of Brown's practice as well as his exceptional way of interpreting and appropriating the Old Masters.
2016
Shelter Press - Records
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French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an
epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Since the mid-2000s, David Hominal has been one of the most original and vigorous voices of the contemporary art scene. This first monograph offers an overview of Hominal's practice, underlining his engagement in representation, expression of the Self, and the traditions of art and art history.
2016
film in French version with English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Echoing his exhibition in the Château de Versailles, Xavier Veilhan opens the doors of seven modernist houses, from California to Europe. Through his contemporary works he creates a dialogue with the singular architecture of these places (original soundtrack by Nicolas Godin / Air).
2016
French edition
Lenka lente
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For Bunita Marcus is a piano piece recorded in 1986 by contemporary composer Morton Feldman. Guillaume Belhomme revisits the singular relationship he shares with this track and gives a sharp analysis of it. This reeissue is completed with a fictitious letter from Feldman to American painter Philip Guston entitled Une minute, une seule.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New monograph: Josephine Meckseper's work exposes the paradoxes of consumer culture through the combination of mass-produced objects with images and artefacts of historical and political events.
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Théo Mercier, Malika Djardi, Markus Öhrn, the online art market, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, French post-punk, being an artist in Central Asia, nudity on stage, the footballer as a modern artist, “Iran” special feature with Barbad Golshiri and Amir Reza Koohestani…
2016
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Conceptualized by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, this monograph accompanies the artist's first solo exhibition in Asia and consists of ten short new texts around which fragments of communication with the authors have been punctuated by observational photographs and sculptural documentation. Contextualized by both recent and earlier works, the exhibition and book considers sculpture as a medium of storage, transmission and reception.
2016
trilingual edition (English / Estonian / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
Side Effects follows an international artistic exchange born from questioning the “sides effects” of artistic activity—sideline jobs, multiple works, choice, accident. This hybrid publication contains archives, photographs, notes and drawings as well as texts, interviews and images from art historians, sociologists, critics and artists.
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
100 photographs of tools on magazines to celebrate the century of the Danish constitution which gave the right to vote to women and nown-owning citizens—including farmers, servants, apprentices and journeymen in the trade and craft (artist's book).
2016
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Stimuli
An anti-method of meeting that reaffirms the uncertain outcome of gathering moments.
2016
Sub Rosa
An overview of experimental and electronic music in Turkey featuring 29 Turkish artists—from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s.
2016
English edition
Artforum
Special section “The New Look: Art and Fashion Photography” featuring Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Heji Shin, Petra Collins, Laurie Simmons, among others, Summer 2016 Previews of 45 shows worldwide, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jacques Rivette, Rhea Anastasia at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, A Cinema of Resistance: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Hulet, Brian Dillon on Yan Xing, plus exhibition reviews from New York, Chicago, Cologne, Warsaw, Auckland, Sao Paolo, and more.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
2016
Shelter Press - Records
16.00 € 12.00 €
The first album in eight years for the Angelenos duo starring former Axolotl drummer William Sabiston and guitarist Jon Almaraz.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Umberto Eco's open work theory, David Hammons, Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israel's collaborative text paintings, individuality and community in Mélanie Matranga's environmental art, Bill Kouligas's Berlin-based record label PAN, åyr art collective, Martine Syms's inquiries into representations of blackness, a late-in-life interview with William N. Copley, reviews…