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Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 4 – Legs
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.Limited edition of 50 copies for each series. Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pionee…
The Guests Go in To Supper (Book)
Rare 1st edition from 1986. Nearly 400 pages, large size, paperbound, smythe-sewn. Texts, scores and ideas of 7 American composers using language in composition: John Cage (Mushrooms et Variationes), Robert Ashley (Improvement), Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Michael Peppe, and Kenneth Atchley. Published by Burning Books, 1986. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan, Kathleen Burch and Michael Sumner. Introductions by Charles Shere and Frances Butler.
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 3 – Cars
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.   Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 2 – Women & Flowers
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.   Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
Through the lense of B&L Ferrari – Pictures 1 – Politics
** Limited edition of 50 copies for each series ** A selection of pictures shot in the '70s by Luc and Brunhild Ferrari, organized by thematics, to be kept as a treasure, to display, or to send as postcards. Pictures printed on fine 250 g/m² uncoated paper, inserted in silk-screen printed and numbered glassine paper sleeve.   Co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) is a pioneer and a major figure of musique concrète an…
Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022 (Book)
Keeper of the Code: Paintings 1963–2022 is Roscoe Mitchell's first exhibit with Corbett Vs. Dempsey. The exhibit is accompanied by an in-depth 140-page full-color catalog reproducing over 100 of Mitchell’s paintings, with an interview by John Corbett. Roscoe Mitchell is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator. The Penguin Guide to Jazz described him as "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz; All About Jazz stated in 2004 that he had been "at the forefront of modern music" …
The Complete Posters Tadanori Yokoo (Book)
Large size book cm 23×27,5; pp. 460; hardcover  Few artists of any medium have captured successfully in their work the visual inundation common to those living in large cosmopolitan cities such as Tokyo, New York, London or Hong Kong. We are bombarded on a daily basis with all types of visual information and images from print media, smartphones and even some forms of public transformation. This exhibition catalogue from the National Museum of Osaka (2010) shows Tadanori Yokoo’s considerable and …
Sensorialité excentrique (Book)
"All that man has undertaken and done until today was: only failure !!!! A New Civilization! urgently!"
Solo Snow (Book)
*2022 stock* Michael Snow is considered one of the world's leading experimental filmmakers and one of Canada's most important living artists. His wide-ranging and multidisciplinary oeuvre explores the possibilities inherent in different mediums and genres, and encompasses film and video, painting, sculpture, photography, writing, and music. This bilingual publication documents a unique retrospective exhibition conceived jointly by a Canadian and a French art institution and includes selections o…
Night of Rain
*Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. 100 color pages.* Night of Rain is the second art book by musician and artist Loren Connors, following last year's Wildweeds (Recital, 2021). The book is composed of two parts: 'Night of Rain,' which Loren describes as "seascapes, or expressions of the sea and shore. [They are] about the power of rain and the sea, lagoons, bays, tides." Taken from small pencil and black ink drawings enlarged again and again at a copy store. The pieces would often be …
Chronicles Vol.3
Chronicles Vol. 3 combines Kim Gordon's Real Estate Paintings with staged canvases photographed by Josephine Pryde in vacant apartments and offices in and around Kriens and Lucerne. The photos, which were taken using purely analog technology, create a disturbing and enraptured atmosphere.
Roygbiv&b (Book)
*Artist book, foil-stamped cover* Roygbiv&b is Marina Rosenfeld’s first book publication, documenting her performance of the same name, and includes gate-fold renderings of the score pages, a “User’s Manual” by the artist, photos from the several performances of the work, and a foreword by musicologist Benjamin Piekut. 
The performance was Rosenfeld’s contribution to the exhibition Instructions Lab at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) in 2011.  A punning riff on spectral composition, the score from …
Ricshari
LP ltd to 285. Silkscreened chipboard jacket with obi (textured tan & black), inserts and a postcard. An’archives are thrilled to announce the release of Ricshari, the first LP from Japanese free improvising duo Mai Mao. Consisting of Shizuo Uchida of Hasegawa-Shizuo, Albedo Gravitas, Archeus, Kito Muzukumi Rouber, Terror Shit, UH, etc. on bass, and Kyosuke Terada, of HUH (who have their own release due on An’archives soon), TERROR SHIT, Bay City Rolaz, Praymate, The Obey Unit, etc. on guitar, t…
For Zitkála-Šá (Book)
Art Metropole is pleased to announce the availability of For Zitkála-Šá, a book of scores by artist and composer Raven Chacon.
I Seem to Live [vol.2] (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The second volume of Jonas Mekas’s autobiography I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, 1969–2011 continues with the meticulous description of his dense life in New York’s underground art scene. It begins with the seventies, a time when the Chelsea Hotel was a central hub of creativity and a temporary home for the filmmaker and critic. In 1970, Mekas cofounded Anthology Film Archives with Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and Stan Brakhage. Later, he b…
Kora-Ju (Book)
Tadanori Yokoo is one of Japan's most prolific and internationally recognised graphic designers and artists, whose body of work also includes illustration, printmaking, painting and collage. The pages of this book are filled with almost 100 clipped and pasted compositions spanning 40 years of work, many of them recent and new pieces. As described by Hideo Namba in the accompanying critical essay, “Yokoo’s art is the act of freely creating a work on the basis of intuition and (human) instinct.” S…
Genkyo - A Visual Story (Book)
Tadanori Yokoo's 80-year history of creations that continue to fascinate the world is condensed into one book. Fans will recognise his playful and dazzling signature style, decade by decade: graphic works of the 1960s, techniques and themes released after his “painter declaration” in 1981, and the "Y-shaped road" series from the 2000s. This is the official catalogue of an exhibition that traces the development of Yokoo's art and episodes of his life. Born in 1936, the Japanese graphic designer, …
Genkyo - Yokoo Tadanori Ii Works (Book)
Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work, which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the international art world. With a signature style of colourful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. ‘Genkyo’ is an exuberant, far-reaching anthology…
Echo: The Images of Sound (Book)
**Very rare original catalogue. Comes with the 10 pages original concerts program leporello** Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 22 - January 6, 1985. Text by Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Anton van Gemert, Bart Lootsma, Arnold Dreyblatt, Leon van Noorden, George Smits, and Hugh Davies. Artists include Max Eastly, Takeisha Kosugi, Walter Marchetti, Ellen Fullman, Godfried-Willem Raes, Horst Rickels, Rik van Lersel, Giancarlo Cardini, Juan…
Mishakosmos: The Music of Misha Mengelberg (Book)
The first official book of Misha Mengelberg compositions, hardcover and professionally spiral-bound, 250 pages, featuring more than 75 pieces of Misha's music ready to play or otherwise engage with, designed for fans, teachers, students, and especially the performing musician. Curated and collated by Michael Moore, the list of tunes includes Blues After Piet, Peer's Counting Song, the Rollos, Gare Guillemins, Samba Zombie, Who's Bridge, and lots more, check the sidebar images for screenshots of …
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