French edition. The artist discusses his work with Bernard Cometti, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Jean de Loisy, and Eric Mangion's. Developed around narrative forms and with an improbable Gesamt-cosmology, Gilles Barbier's work borrows its structures and themes from numerous cultural spheres. The book is an invitation to follow the artists journey through a selection of works, sculptures, drawings, and ..

This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2007, presents an overview of Thomas Demands current work in the form of 23 large-size photographs, a film project and an architectural installation specially prepared for the museum. Central themes are stairs, ladders, and lifts. The title refers to the so-called staircase wit remembered only when ...

38 Pieces. Francois Azambourg is one of the most important representatives of contemporary French design, known for his unusual combinations of material and production methods. He builds chairs that are as light as model airplanes, invents fruit bowls made of honeyc.

The Conquest of Imperfection. The Conquest of Imperfection is the first major UK exhibition of Japanese media artist Masaki Fujihatas acclaimed interactive work, featuring eight installations created by the artist between 1996 - 2008 and a new work specially created for the Manchester exhibition. Fujihata uses interactive art, virtual reality and networking to probe the fundamental questions of ..

Art of Negotiation explores eight artist-led projects in different sites across England. The case studies document how the projects were initiated and produced, and explore the negotiationsbetween artists, partners and participants, and audience through which the work took shape. The book presents multiple narratives, bringing in the voices of participants, partners and other stakeholders which .

French edition. The anecdote is a marginalized form, a simple form, often scorned. Relevant to street culture and not to spaces of protected knowledge, the anecdote is a minor language, one could even say, as did Deleuze, with revolutionary potential. It is not a matter of telling stories, but of envisaging the anecdote as theoretical question and an object which engages a meaning and a relation .

The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is one of the world's leading schools of architecture.

Graphit German edition. This publication brings together the large-size graphite drawings of the last decade by painter and graphic artist Thomas Mllenbach. From his engagement with popular culture and ongoing dialogue with the history of art, the artist has developed a language of directness and reduction by drawing life-size different subjects from reality. From everyday life in domestic ...

Christophe Cherix & John Tremblay French edition. Based on an exhibition curated by Christophe Cherix and John Tremblay at the Print Room of Geneva, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last forty years. The process, by nature industrial and originally associated with packaging and advertising, consists of making an imprint of a form by placing a ...

This artists' book by Hans-Peter Feldmann features work from the past decade includinghis recent series of Flower photographs. Feldmann is a collector of photographs; he takes photographs when he cannot find suitable images for his work. The pictures Feldmann selects and brings together in exhibitions and, in particular, books are an unpretentious trace of his own observations which he prefers ...

Dedicated to film and video, the BMI was the first European Biennial to focus on artists using these media. This edition includes retrospectives of filmmakers such as Pedro Costa, Robert Morin and Stavros Tornes, as well as artists such as Joan Jonas, accompanied by overview essays. A selection of works by Johanna Billing, Pierre Huyghe, Martha Rosler, Fiona Tann, David Claerbout and Beat Streuli

Chronologie French edition. A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology, and beyond by the well-know curator and art critic Daniel Birnbaum, around the works of Stan Douglas, Eija-Lisa Athila, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean, Darren Almond, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre Huyghe, and Philippe Parreno.Daniel Birnbaum is the Director of Portikus and the Dean of the Stadelschule in ..