Christophe Cherix

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BOOKTREK
By Clive Phillpot. Edited by Lionel Bovier. Introduction by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642078 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
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PRINT/OUT
Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah Suzuki.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870708251 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 2/29/2012
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ARTIST-RUN SPACES

ISBN: 9783037641910 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 1/31/2013
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FORDE 1994-2009
Edited by Véronique Yersin. Text by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix, Julien Fronsacq.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037640821 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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FRANCIS BAUDEVIN: MISCELLANEOUS ABSTRACT
Text by Bob Nickas, Christophe Cherix, Rainer M. Mason.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037640678 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/31/2010
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IN & OUT OF AMSTERDAM
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870707537 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2009
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HANSPETER HOFMANN: BONHEUR AUTOMATIQUE
Edited by Christoph Doswald. Text by Christophe Cherix, Christoph Doswald, Philipp Sarasin.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770674 | US $49.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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PLASTIC
Edited by Christophe Cherix, John Tremblay.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770605 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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BARRY LE VA: FICTIONAL EXCERPTS, NOTES, INTERVIEWS, SCRAPBOOKS
Edited by Christophe Cherix. Essays by Saul Ostrow and Willoughby Sharp.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9782940271542 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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HENRI MATISSE: TRAITS ESSENTIELS
Text by Christophe Cherix, Mayte Julliard.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9782830602333 | US $36.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
Out of print | Not available

JOHN M. ARMLEDER: AT ANY SPEED
CANTZ
ISBN: 9783893229703 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 4/2/2000
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Christophe Cherix

Booktrek

Selected Essays on Artists’ Books since 1972

By Clive Phillpot. Edited by Lionel Bovier. Introduction by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Clive Phillpot has been a tireless advocate for the artist’s book for more than 40 years--both as a critic, curator and editor, and in his tenure as director at the library of The Museum of Modern Art in the late 1970s, where he built the library’s collection of artist’s books and mapped out the field with influential essays that traced its ancestry and distinguished it from seemingly similar genres such as the livre d’artiste. As he has delineated the genre: “Artists’ books are understood to be books or booklets produced by the artist using mass-production methods, and in (theoretically) unlimited numbers, in which the artist documents or realizes art ideas or artworks.” Also collaborating with Printed Matter and Franklin Furnace, among other places dedicated to the medium of the book, Phillpot helped raise awareness of artists’ books, endowing them with the critical credentials to enter the collections of museums. Booktrek gathers for the first time Phillpot’s essays on the definition and development of artists’ books from 1972 to the present--historical texts, manifestos, catalogue entries and essays on works by Ed Ruscha, Sol LeWitt, Dieter Roth and Richard Long. Booktrek will prove an invaluable reference for all those interested in the evolution of the artist’s book, and offers a crucial account of the genre’s ascent.

Print/Out

20 Years in Print

Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah Suzuki.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques--often used alongside digital technologies--to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist’s books and ephemera. Print/Out features focused sections on ten artists and publishers--Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schütte and Kelley Walker. An introductory essay by Christophe Cherix, Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at the Museum, offers an overview of this period with particular attention to new directions and strategies within an expanded field of printmaking.

Artist-Run Spaces

Non Profit Collective Oraganizations in the 1960s & 1970s

Published by

Forde 1994-2009

Edited by Véronique Yersin. Text by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix, Julien Fronsacq.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Since 1994, the influential independent Geneva art space Forde has provided an open environment for experimental curatorial programming, encouraging critical dialogues across disciplines. This volume gathers descriptions, texts and photographs documenting the events and exhibitions put together by the spectrum of curatorial teams over the past 15 years.

Francis Baudevin: Miscellaneous Abstract

Text by Bob Nickas, Christophe Cherix, Rainer M. Mason.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Francis Baudevin (born 1964) makes paintings from graphics designed for various products, primarily pharmaceuticals and album covers. He removes the type, leaving only the graphics, and enlarges the results onto canvases and walls, thereby retrieving geometric abstraction from its influence on commercial design.

In & Out of Amsterdam

Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976

Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Phillip van den Bossche, Cathleen Chaffee, Christophe Cherix, Rini Dippel, Paula Feldman, Christian Rattemeyer.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

During the 1960s and 70s, Amsterdam was a nexus of intense art activities, drawing artists from all over the world, including Stanley Brouwn, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Charlotte Posenenske, Allen Ruppersberg and Lawrence Weiner. Reciprocally, some of the most influential Dutch artists traveled abroad extensively before establishing themselves in Amsterdam: Jan Dibbets studied in London, while Ger van Elk and Bas Jan Ader trained in Los Angeles. As a result of this new mobility, a dynamic cross-pollination of ideas and influences took place between artists of different nationalities, and many produced works directly related to the notion of travel and the city that fostered them. In & Out of Amsterdam presents more than 120 works--including works on paper, installations, photographs and films--by artists who were part of this remarkable creative culture. Essays, accompanied by lively illustrations and documentary photographs, illuminate the significance of these works as well as the unprecedented role that prints, bulletins, posters, mail art, artists' books and ephemera played in the artists' discourse. A brief essay or interview introduces each artist, and an extensive chronology, bibliography and illustrated checklist round out this unique volume.

Hanspeter Hofmann: Bonheur Automatique

Edited by Christoph Doswald. Text by Christophe Cherix, Christoph Doswald, Philipp Sarasin.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Basel-based Hanspeter Hofmann, born in 1960, trained as a natural scientist, then turned to quasi-alchemical experimentations in printmaking. This artist’s book/catalogue raisonné recreates Hofmann’s construction of images on the offset plates, on the one hand, while documenting the development of bodies of works and themes on the other.

Plastic

Edited by Christophe Cherix, John Tremblay.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Organized by MoMA curator Christophe Cherix and New York artist John Tremblay, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last 40 years--starting with Claes Oldenburg and Craig Kaufman in the 1960s and ending with Jim Isermann, Fabrice Gygi and Seth Price today.

Henri Matisse: Traits Essentiels

Monotypes 1906-1952

Text by Christophe Cherix, Mayte Julliard.
Published by Walther König, Köln

If painting was for Matisse the expression of a "state of condensed sensations," his engravings consisted of "Traits Essentiels" or "essential lines:" they were recordings of a single sensation, and rarely passed through any series of stages or reworkings. In fact, engraving was a refuge. Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse, co-author of a catalogue raisonné of her father's prints, describes the graphic work he often executed at the end of a painting session as an "agreeable conclusion." After several experiments with drypoint, Matisse turned toward woodcut in 1906 (and gave it up almost immediately), then worked simultaneously in monotype and etching, where he achieved an astonishing tension between surface and line. Later, he turned to linocut and to sugarlift aquatint. It is on these projects that the selection in Traits Essentiels focuses: Lithography, which Matisse practiced from 1906 to 1952, and with which he was less experimental, is excluded. Text in French only.

Barry Le Va: Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks

1969-2003

Edited by Christophe Cherix. Essays by Saul Ostrow and Willoughby Sharp.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Barry Le Va is back. After more than ten years without a major exhibition in the United States, a mini-blockbuster of a retrospective at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Contemporary Art in early 2005 rescattered Le Va's felt, reimbedded his cleavers in a wall and rebroke his sheets of plate glass--to extraordinary critical acclaim. Now, to complement that exhibition and for insight into a mind that has remained consistently true to a renegade vision for some 35 years, we have a collection of writings, studies, notes, drawings, sketches and more, from a cult artist who has influenced a younger generation that includes Jason Rhoades, Cady Noland, Karen Kilimnik and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The book brings together for the first time in one place three major early interviews, and adds a new one with Christophe Cherix.

John M. Armleder: At Any Speed

Artwork by John Armleder. Edited by Lionel Bovier, Margrit Brehm, Christophe Cherix. Contributions by Axel Heil.
Published by Cantz