A dialogue between two virtuosos of formal simplicity In 1990, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-96) visited Roni Horn's (born 1955) solo show at MOCA Los Angeles and saw for the first time her iconic 1982 work Gold Field--a thin piece of gold foil placed on the ground, without any cordon or protection. Deeply affected by the simplicity, strength and beauty of the work, Gonzalez-Torres met Horn in 1991 and told her of the impact the piece had on him. A few days later, Roni Horn sent him a square of gold foil as a mark of their burgeoning friendship. Later, in response, he created "Untitled" (Placebo - Landscape - for Roni), a carpet of candies wrapped in gold cellophane, available for visitors to take. In turn, Horn replied with Gold Mats, Paired - for Ross and Felix(1994-95), this time with two pieces of gold foil placed atop each other. This volume celebrates their friendship, reproducing installations, photographs and sculptures.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Editions Dilecta

Spatial interventions from 19 artists in dialogue with the architecture of the Bourse de Commerce This volume accompanies a group show that gathers works from 19 artists exploring the materiality of space and time. Artists include: Larry Bell, Marcel Broodthaers, Miriam Cahn, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans and Carrie Mae Weems.

Une seconde d'éternité

History & Criticism

Selections from a recent group show exploring the effects of the climate crisis on seasonal cycles 
This exhibition catalog accompanies a show at the Pinault Collection at the Bourse de Commerce that explores the changing seasons, mutated by climate change. Artists include: Tacita Dean, Robert Gober, Daniel Steegman Mangrané and Anicka Yi.

Before the Storm

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Highlights from a group show centering the internal world of the artistThis exhibition catalog accompanies a group show exploring a driving force behind contemporary creative output: inward focus and detachment from reality. In contemporary painting in particular, figuration and abstraction are increasingly muddled, giving way to new forms that merge materiality, meditation and visceral experience.

The Inner Island: Inner Island

Animal Sketching was Alexander Calder's first book, published in New York in 1926 shortly before he left for France. It is a study of about ten animals and their movements, illustrated by numerous drawings, and with short commentaries by Calder on individual species and on problems of caricature, action and pose (or lack thereof). Animal Sketching also provides some insight into his ingenious sculptural work, foreshadowing as it does his famous Miniature Circus of 1927, in which these animals achieved full dimensionality. Following the Whitney Museum's 2008 exhibit on Calder's Paris years, Éditions Dilecta here provides a facsimile of a foundational publication by one of America's most beloved artists. This edition adds a postface by Arnauld Pierre, Calder expert and member of the Calder Foundation board. Beautifully and modestly designed, Animal Sketching is a giftworthy gem that will tickle adults and children alike.

Alexander Calder: Animal Sketching

This book, produced in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, recounts the relationship between Yves Klein, one of the major artists of the postwar period, and the United States―a relationship of mutual fascination and reciprocal influence. Numerous documents, many of them previously unpublished, bear witness to the close ties that Klein forged with the U.S. The rising stars of the early 1960s American art scene (Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Frank Stella, plus Marcel Duchamp) all make an appearance here, as does President Eisenhower! The book includes an interview with Rotraut Klein-Moquay, who talks about her trip to the United States with Yves Klein in 1961, as well as the artist's comments on his own work. It also includes a hitherto unpublished essay by the American critic Robert Pincus-Witten, who met the protagonists of this story when he worked for dealer Leo Castelli.

Yves Klein: USA

PINCUS-WITTEN, Robert

Klein-Moquay, Rotraut

Yves Klein (1928-1962) was an agitator of ideas, a total artist who used his considerable charisma to propagate social change through art. In his writings and talks, Klein drew on a vast repertoire of philosophical, scientific, political and occult materials, synthesizing them into a declamatory propaganda for his own art. Yves Klein by Himself is a composite biography of one of the most influential artists of the second half of the twentieth century. Neither an intellectual biography nor an art-historical analysis, Yves Klein by Himself is rather a kind of "Klein reader" that lets the artist speak through his ideas and philosophical conceptions, and in doing so attempts to reconstruct his "organized network of obsessions." To this end, it intermixes biographical facts, a selection of texts by the writers and artists who influenced Klein, a glossary of keywords with Klein's own definitions derived from published texts as well as previously unpublished manuscripts and a selection of critical writings with analyses of Klein's philosophical ideas by the author and editor of this volume, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann.

Yves Klein By Himself: His Life and Thought

Ottmann, Klaus

In April 1958, Yves Klein presented an exhibition in a white room at the Iris Clert gallery in Paris, devoid of all objects save for an empty cabinet. This milestone show, later known as the "exhibition of the void," debuted Klein's "immaterialization of painting": "an ambience, a pictorial climate that is invisible but present." Shortly afterward, Klein upped the stakes even further by offering ritualized sales of "zones of immaterial pictorial sensibility"--i.e., "zones" of nothing--in exchange for a certain weight of fine gold, half of which he then in turn dispatched into the Seine (the other half was used to make gold monochromes). Denys Riout's illustrated study is the first devoted entirely to Klein's immaterial works. Drawing on both known and newly discovered documentation, Riout portrays this development in Klein's thought against its cultural backdrop and attendant postwar philosophic and religious discussions on the idea of the void.

Yves Klein: Expressing the Immaterial

Riout, Denys

Robert Wilson & Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach

Philip Glass

Robert, Wilson

Gerhard Richter: Drawings and Watercolors, 1958-2008

Schwarz, Dieter

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