Beaux-Arts Magazine
Beaux-Arts

68 pages
edition Beaux Arts Magazine
9 euro

Beaux-Arts Magazine publishes a book presenting the peculiar history of this place devoted to production and artistic experimentation in full, through creations, exibitions and artworfs in the sculptures wood…

SHIMABUKU 2011

80 pages, co-edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Silvana Editoriale
EAN 978 291 08 50 531
22 euro

For his solo exhibition Man should try to avoid contact with alien forms presented at the Art Center in Vassivière from November 13th, 2011 to  May 6th, 2012, Shimabuku has conceived a book with the designer Hattori Kazunari which includes a conversation between Shimabuku and Chiara Parisi and a text by Pierre Joseph.

La charte paysagère de Vassivière. Boire l’eau du lac
Gilles Clément

160 pages, edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière
EAN 978 291 08 50 524
20 euro

Written in 2003, following the commission of the Syndicat "Le Lac de Vassivière", The environmental charter of Vassivière. To drike the lake water is published for the first time to make available to the public a study designed for those involved in the Limousin region but also more broadly - like Gilles Clement’s practice - a book of ecological tourism, political and societal reflections that can enable us to hear again and understand the links between people and nature.

The environmental charter offers a new vision of landscape, a place of resistance against the all-industrial development or tourism and develops concepts which have the advantage of being applicable in both rural and urban areas with very different scales, local, territorial, regional, national ..., "a mental territory of hope."

massive centrale
Hubert Duprat

120 pages, co-edition Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière / Silvana Editoriale
Diffusion by les Presses du réel
EAN 9782910850517
25 euro

massive centrale is the monography of two Hubert Duprat’s solo exhibitions presented at the Centre international d'art et du  paysage de l'île de Vassivière in 2008 and at the Frac Languedoc-Roussillon in 2009.

Fabien Faure, Patrick Javault, Simone Menegoi and Jeff Rian have written texts enlighting Hubert Duprat’s work and exploring the different question of the artist’s work through their own field of expertise.

White is an Image
Rosa Barba

296 pages, edition Hatje Cantz, co-production by carlier | gebauer gallery/Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière/Fondazione Galerie Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento/Gio Marconi/MART-Museo d'Arte moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
ISBN 978 – 3 – 7757 - 3019 - 8
35 euro

This first monography of Rosa Barba features her three solo exhibitions realized at the Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière in 2010, at the Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità in Trento and at the Mart in Trento/Rovereto in 2011.

The curators Chiara Parisi and Andrea Viliani have commissioned the realisation of this book at the publishing house Hatje Cantz and have asked the contributions of prestigious writers like Lynne Cooke, Elisabeth Lebovici, Francesco Manacorda, Malasauskas Raimundas, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Ian White. Some several film-stills, drawings by the artist and documentation are also integrated in this monography.

I can't see
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
Diffusion by les Presses du réel
EAN : 978 291 08 50 – 500
100 euro

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
Diffusion by les Presses du réel
EAN: 978 291 08 50 – 494
15,00 euro

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
Diffusion by les Presses du réel
EAN: 9781904864462
20,00 euro

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.