African art history continues to be dominated by Western scholars who set the tone for the field. Their cultural frames of reference, which they cast as universal, exert influence on the interpretation of African art, social conditions, and cultural milieu. The knowledge produced in most institutions and academic or independent publishers outside of Africa communicates the extant system in place within those localities. In other words, the audience for such forms of knowledge production is not (necessarily) in Africa.

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker and undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Intriguing and revolutionary, his work has achieved a cult-like following; the striking use of color, suggestive narratives, and surrealist aesthetics establishing a visual language all his own.

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

Dance and musical improvisation are ephemeral expressions urging us to embrace the moment in thoughtful joy. Devon Fornelli’s improvisations documented here are two performances: his CitySounds, created on 18 September 2015 for the opening of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario; and his Garden Performance, five years later, on 9 May 2020, offered as a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary lockdown of the MIWSFPA.

On the occasion of the exhibition Die fünfte Säule [The fifth column], curated by Moritz Küng, Joëlle Tuerlinckx presents the lecture-performance Les moments d?espace ? lecture for YouTube in 591 panels (version 17.11.11) and the publication Moments d?espace.
On 591 PowerPoint pages the artist describes her subjective and partially autobiographical thoughts concerning the paradox of space in the form of ?textimages? in French with English subtitles. While these are projected uncommented, Tuerlinckx improvises a musicalpiece on a first-generation Casio synthesizer.

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

Vrach is Renaud Regnery's collection of all the sketches made for the painting of the same name: Vrach, 2019, plaster, acrylic paint and alkyd lacquer on wallpaper on canvas, 200 x 135 cm.

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and

The research of Mariateresa Sartori revolves around three thematic fulcrums: empirical scientific method; behavioural dynamics, often in relation to neurosciences; music and sound in relation to language. Depending on the project she embarks upon, the artist uses different mediums ranging from drawing – whether for small or wall-size works – to pinhole photography, video, and sound recordings.

Né en 1972, lauréat du prix Marcel Duchamp en 2008, Laurent Grasso est l'un des artistes français les plus présents sur la scène contemporaine internationale. Il est représenté par la Galerie Perrotin à Paris, où il vit et travaille. Son travail, délicat et très varié, utilisant aussi bien la vidéo que la peinture, le néon, la sculpture ou l'installation, joue des limites entre fiction et réalité et explore les notions d'espace et de temporalité.

On the occasion of Monumenta 2012, Éditions Dilecta published the previously unseen sketches of Daniel Buren. His plans, drawings and collages document the genesis of the project. From the abandoned initial ideas to the final work, we follow the creation of this extraordinary installation.

"Notes from the future: a crossbreed laborer's diary" brings together artists who use forms from documents, anthropology and science fiction, as so many imaginary territories to be cannibalized within visual production; challenging notions of culture, origin and belonging.

Modefotografie existiert nur über das Frauenmagazin. Die Geschichte dieses fotografischen Genres ist daher mit der der Frauenpresse verbunden. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ersten Frauenzeitschriften erschienen, war die Fotografie noch immer nur eine Hilfsillustration.

In 2022 the Niagara Region welcomes the Canada Games; 2022 also marks the reintroduction of the Indigenous game of lacrosse. By thematizing lacrosse, this book celebrates the role sport plays in promoting cultural diversity.

Cet ouvrage est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition Amelie von Wulffen, à l'espace 315, Musée national d'art moderne du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2 mars-2 mai 2005.

Catalog of the exhibition “Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn”. The exhibition proposed at the Bourse de Commerce is first and foremost a dream, that of being able to present two artists whose work and commitment have meant a great deal to their peers.

The protocol for the production of the works presented at Salon du Salon is simple. There is a certain nonchalance, few gestures. These gestures directly question how a work is produced. The stages of development of these works are predefined: visiting museums, taking photographs, opening them on a computer, copying, pasting, adjusting, moving and recording.

An extensive monograph/exhibition catalog on Stephane Couturier, who is undeniably one of the most important French contemporary photographers, an influential presence on the international exhibition scene since the mid-1990s with his large-format, brilliantly elaborated photographic tableaux.

El artista del Accionismo Vienés, Otto Muehl, fundó en 1970 una comuna con la intención de fusionar arte y vida. El proyecto tuvo un desarrollo excepcional, llegó a contar con más de quinientos integrantes convirtiéndose en una de las mayores comunidades contraculturales de la Europa del siglo XX.

Surreal arrangements of artifacts from skulls and teapots to fried eggs and dirty socks by Théo Mercier. Théo Mercier (born 1984) employs found objects in his photography and sculpture to subvert viewers’ expectations. His inaugural monograph reveals the impressive scope of his oeuvre.

In “Playing with Ludwig”, artist Nikolaus Gansterer and philosopher Klaus Speidel adress fundamental questions of sense making in language and visual forms. In a playful dialogue with the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, they tackle subjects like pain and pictures,

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault invited the historian Frédéric Prot and the photographer Philippe Chancel to reveal, both in writing and images, this radical work by the architect Jean Dubuisson that he designed during the 1960s, as well as the commitment of his client André Weil to build a domain at Pontpoint.

Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine. Published in October 2016 this issue features: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jim Shaw, Alex Israel / Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Rosa, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Sarah Lucas, Ugo

Ein Ausnahmekünstler gibt sich die Ehre: Der großartige Jannis Kounellis stellt aus, und der Rahmen könnte angemessener nicht sein. In der Monnaie de Paris, der alten Börse von Paris, ist in einem furiosen Streich ein begehbares Gesamtkunstwerk in situ' entstanden, das den Pionier der Arte povera angemessen würdigt.

Next Spring is an occasional series of reviews that offers a different approach to the writing of art criticism. Focused on the reading of one film work, each book in the series presents a parallel text on the artwork as both a critical response and literary production. The film selected and the text produced consider ecological issues, environmental concerns, and systematic revisionings. The language of place is given priority and image reproductions used nominally. Paris, May 16, the pilot issue, includes writings by Clara Schulmann, Barbara Sirieix, and Jennifer Teets, as well as a visual essay by Scott Rogers on the invitation of Richard Frater.

The volume is an epistolary narrative produced via text message with a community of anonymous correspondents. Following on from a performative work, conceived by Simon Asencio, this book stages a relation between two protagonists, U and I. Through identitarian slips and glyphs, the book explores the narrative ambiguities of experimental writing, to generate a space for fluidity and uncertainty, at the intersection of the artistic and the literary.

“Saint Louis in his prison in Damietta”, “A house engulfed in flames ...”, “A snowman, such as children build ...”: The painter and illustrator Henri-Achille Zo (1873–1933) received a total of 59 instructions of this kind in the early 1930s.

Die Grenzen der Medien überwindet Ashley Hans Scheirl so mühelos wie die Beschränkungen durch geschlechtliche und kulturelle Normen. Die als Angela Scheirl geborene Künstler*in erlangte Ende der 1980er-Jahre durch ihre experimentellen Film- und

This is not a catalogue raisonné. Nor is it a family album. If anything, it is an album dé-raisonné, the collage of a life commented on discreetly by its author. It is a reproduction of the world of Olga Mohler-Picabia around a mentor and a great love, Francis Picabia. A variation on the theme of Pygmalion, this album is the highly personal expression of a quarter century of learning. An intaglio portrait of Picabia through the eyes of Olga, a portrait that is at once funny, intimate, sensible and often very moving.

The eleventh issue of the series Pleased to Meet You is devoted to Derek Jarman (1942-1994), a major figure in British cinema during the 1970s and 80s as well as a highly versatile artist, painter, draughtsman, costume and set designer, author and gardener. Before his premature death in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness,

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and curators—the Académie fellows—come from all over the world to be accompanied by faculty members with

In Text und Fotografie hinterfragt das Buch von Claire Laude anhand von Beispielen aus zwei Mittelmeerländern, Italien und Griechenland, unsere Beziehung zur Erde und den Begriff der Spuren und ihrer Beständigkeit in der Landschaft. Welche Spuren können die Geschichte und die Aktivitäten der Menschen in einer ländlichen Landschaft hinterlassen?

Bekannt ist Raymond Roussel als Ingenieur delirierend-phantastischer Wortwelten, bekannt sind seine Romane voller exotischer Rituale, theatraler Maschinen und blutiger Szenen. Ein anderer Roussel bleibt in seinen frühen Versdichtungen zu entdecken: ein Zeitgenosse Marcel Prousts, ein scharfer Beobachter der Gesellschaft, ein Meister der Ekphrasis und ein großer Humorist.