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Oscar TUAZON

272 pages, co-edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Le Parc Saint Léger – Centre d’art contemporain/Pougues-les-Eaux/Kunsthalle de Berne, Do.Pe. Press/Paraguay Press, Paris
29 euro

In the context of his exhibitions realized at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, at the Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain de Pougues-les-Eaux and at the Kunsthalle de Berne, a catalog is published (en french, german and english) with talks between Oscar Tuazon, Chiara Parisi, Sandra Patron and Philippe Pirotte, the tree curators, and some others new texts by Thomas Boutoux, Karl Holmqvist, David Lewis, Eileen Myles, Ariana Reines, Carissa Rodriguez, Cebar Sigo, Matthew Stadler about the recent works of the artist and a lot of pictures of his artworks.

Oussseux
Koo JEONG-A

628 pages, coedition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Silvana Editoriale, Milan EAN : 978 291 08 50 – 46 – 2
100 euros

This book is the fruit of an exceptionnal collaboration between the artist Koo Jeong-A and the graphists M/M. In the same time work of art, book of artist and catalog of exhibition, this unclassable object is surprising of beauty and perfection.

This book shows the whole set of the tree hundred drawings of the artist presented in the Nave of the Ciap, displaying of the universe of Koo Jeong-A accompanied with original creations by Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak.

Etc. Balkis Island
Yona FRIEDMAN Jean-Baptiste DECAVELE

french/english, 96 pages, 17 x 24 cm, co-edition Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2010 EAN: 978 291 08 50 – 46 – 0
15,00 euros

The famous architectural theorist Yona Friedman explains in the preface to this splendid work his love for unicorns -  because they do not exist, because, they are female and because they are mute. It is not a book about everything that can happen to a unicorn throughout its life which lasts several thousand years. Yona Friedman is not aware of all its adventures.

Here, drawings and texts accompany the extraordinary journey of Yona Friedman, with his friend Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, photographer and video artist, from Paris where he lives, to the île de Vassivière and ending in Venice.

attebasile
Victor MAN

 artist book, 96 pages, 20 x 28cm, co-edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2009
EAN: 9781904864462
20,00 euros  

At the glance of his works which associate all-assorted elements and varied artistic disciplines, the artist book attebasile, conceived by Victor Man, assembles photocopies of texts, images of archives, reproductions of works and views of exhibition, which allow in the course of pages and various juxtapositions, sudden narrative constructions, precious for the artist. Even if an iconoclastic atmosphere smooths on the work where desire and violence become entangled, the reading of its assemblies remains open and confers to the book a surprising variation of its whole current production.

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions of the Ikon Gallery of Birmingham from November 26th, 2008 till January 25th, 2009 and the Centre i nternational d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France, from February 14th till June 7th, 2009.