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Dove Allouche draws basing himself on photographs. His graphite pencil sketches multiply the point of views and question time and movement through the techniques and materials of ancient photography.
This artist book is signed and numbered for the 120 samples, formatted 4°, printed by Launay Press and bound by l'atelier Houdart in Paris for Éditions Dilecta.
All the artists of the Louvre gathered in a single book!
The edition of Signal, made of 170 numbered copies, 20 HC copies numbered HC1 to HC20, and 10 Artist’s Proofs numbered EA1 to EA10, is composed of 10 lenticular images and an additional lenticular image, as well as a poster.
Louise Bourgeois created He Disappeared into Complete Silence in 1947, at the beginning of her career and two years after her first personal exhibition. This dense and splendid book, very rare, was initially printed in only a dozen copies and contains nine engravings by the artist alongside with a brief narrative text.
Counter to television reports, Guillaume Bresson portrays a scene from contemporary history that is representative of an urban violence scene.
Between classical and modern references, Nicolas Buffe's universe dialogues with past and present, ancient myths, cartoon characters, BD, and the art of the Renaissance.
Animal Sketching is the first book that Alexander Calder published in New York in 1926, a short time before he left for France. This book, fundamental in understanding Calder’s body of work, is a study dedicated to animals...
26 cards. 1 image.
With her project “When you see me again, it won’t be me,” Jagna Ciuchta turns the concept of exhibition over. For her the process of creation, as well as the set-up and dismantling are part of the work of art.
Philippe Cognée has been choosen to create a piece, Echo, intended to be shown in the renovated premises of the Grand Commun at the Château de Versailles: forty-or-so round paintings -called tondo- as if the painter created a constellation of images seen through his eyes.
With Figure out Figure in, Tony Cragg, major artist of the contemporary art scene, shows a previously unseen set of sculptures and drawings revealing his work on the relation between the inner energy of the bodies and their external shapes. ...
This "artist's cover" gives you the opportunity to discover the world of Charles Dreyfus through a poetic alphabet, a photographic album of about thirty works, a poster, an interview and the look of artists and...
On April 22nd, 2008, the Belgian artist Jan Fabre slipped into the skin and spirit of the famous gangster Jacques Mesrine (1936-1979), during a long performance among the ancient sculptures of the Louvre.
Rachel & Rosco is a collection of 77 previously unpublished drawings, produced using a four-coloured biro. Each drawing is reproduced actual size on a whole page and represents a recurring theme: a woman (or girl) accompanied by her dog.
Living, Defeating is the creation of the art collective Claire Fontaine, which draws its essence from the fifty books whose back covers have been used. Here, Claire Fontaine questions the status of the book by revealing the flow and the collision/collusion of the discussion that surrounds it: by combining commercial indicators, slogans and arguments, the back cover becomes such a symbol.
Like a conductor, Loris Gréaud, versatile artist fascinated by architecture, quantum mechanics, cinema and music, seizes ideas in order to transform them into what he calls “empirical machines”. In June 2013, he took possession of both the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou through two installations mixing a work on space and sound specific to his art.
Born in 1975 in Téhéran, Ramin Haerizadeh is a complete artist. Fascinated by images from an early age, he experiments as a photographer also explores drawing, painting, animation and collage.
Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the main contemporary artists of our time. This book contains an unpublished selection of more than one hundred drawings, created between the sixties and today.
This Anish Kapoor book was conceived as a "leporello": a cardboard book with pages that you can unfold as an agreement
Exploring the imaginarium of Ancient Egypt as seen by century old travellers, William Kentridge gathers a serie of drawings exhibited at the Louvre...
Les Fondements du Judo is a rare book: initially published in 1954 by the French publisher Grasset, it has been long out-of-print and unavailable to the public to this day...
Exceptional facsimile re-issued to format and on the original paper. In May, 1954, Yves Klein released only a few copies of Yves Peintures. This collection of monochromes has become so hard to find nowadays that it has been considered legendary...
The Walt Disney Productions series, started in 1984 and often exhibited since, is made out of enlargements made by Lavier of abstract paintings, sketched by Mickey Mouse’s creator for an adventure in a museum of modern art.
This book presents the creative work of Cécile Le Talec, from the 90s to 2015, where she questions the perception of space through sounds, whether musical or linguistic.
« Werther Effect » est une sélection d’œuvres d’Élodie Lesourd où l’on peut découvrir l’hyperrockalisme: la reproduction picturale exacte de vues d'exposition, où l'objet principal de l'image sera représenté grandeur nature...
« Nevers aujourd'hui m'apparaît incroyablement cinématographique avec ses territoires urbains intacts et ses décors néoréalistes pasoliniens. Ce que j'y ai vécu active encore mon présent. »
Winner of the Marcel Duchamp prize in 2006, Philippe Mayaux has produced an important piece of graphic work arranging a visual device in double pages in which images and texts mingle, interact and converse.
Considered to be one of the most promising and original artists of the French art scene, Théo Mercier is a jack of all trades. A self-taught artist, he paints, sculpts and photographs.
In 1975, Annette Messager launched a cycle entitled “Annette Messager : the cheater” during which La Femme et…
Unpublished book inspired by Annette Messager’s eponymous installation (1971-1972).
For several years now, Annette Messager has been sketching, writing words, transferring photographies, or drawing on little paper disks that she later puts in her badge making machine…
This book presents the history of the relationship between the artists' work and the city of Calais on the ocassion of their exhibition at the city of Dentelle.
Mixed Marriages, Free Marriages and Barbarian Weddings is a monograph of ORLAN’s most recent work, and completely unpublished. Often acts of rebellion and resistance against contemporary pressures, politics, religious or social, acting on the individual, the creations of ORLAN deflect the latest technological innovations to create a highly interrogative work.
This pop-up book marks a new stage in the work of Jean-Michel Othoniel: the ‘Ricochets’ sculptures, with varying shades, glass marbles projected like a ribbon of beads, unfold across the pages.
Locus Solus is an artist’s book Jean-Michel Othoniel dedicated to Raymond Roussel’s mythical work.
«Miracle Smith» est le tout premier livre illustré d’Arman. Publié pour la première fois en 1955, cet ouvrage réunit un poème en prose de Claude Pascal et trois bois gravés d’Arman...
This book, which could be considered a manifesto, is entitled Il faut reconstruire l’Hacienda [The Hacienda must be rebuild] and was made after Bruno Peinado’s exhibition of the same name, which took place in october 2016 at the MRAC, Sérignan, France.
Éric Pougeau frappe fort avec les mots. Des mots inscrits sur divers supports — plaques mortuaires, ordonnances médicales et cahiers d'écolier — qu’il s'approprie, pour y véhiculer rage, insulte et rire...
Laure Prouvost's work mixes several stories that answer one another, clash: fiction can then embrace reality. In her immersive installations and films, she gathers various mediums to develop a fable that addresses the visitor directly.
Éditions Dilecta publishes a presentation of a selection of his paintings from his debut.
Un titanic, reprise. has taken several shapes: a performance on the île Saint-Louis, Paris, during the Nuit blanche d’une part; this artists’ book; exhibitions at galerie Michel Rein, Paris, Strizzi.space, Cologne, and Dilecta.
From August 2nd to October 27th 2013, Jean Tinguely’s Cylclop hosts an exhibition and installation by Denis Savary called Étourneaux (“Starlings”).
Born in Switzerland in 1938, Roman Signer is famous for his “explosive” performances. Since 1973, he has been conceiving a piece combining sculpture, performance, photography and film archive.
Créer des lieux comme on conçoit une oeuvre, une peinture ou une sculpture, telle est la démarche de Roger Taillibert, dont la passion pour la peinture se communique à son trait d’architecte...
This very colorful book, which is similar to an album imbued with the perfume of the childhood art, builds a story in pictures.It is articulated from within each of major works by Pascale Marthine Tayou. Stretching a thread from one work to another, it reveals their proximity, as well as their intense poetic strength.
"When I first arrived, I introduced myself, stating that I had arrived there. The first thing the supervisor said to me, without even saying hello, was 'welcome to hell'."
This numbered artist's book brings together, in the form of ephemeris, 13 drawings from the unpublished series produced by Cy Twombly in 1977.
The portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is representing her country for the 2013 Venice Biennale, a major event in both cultural and artistic scenes. The Éditions Dilecta are publishing the catalogue which traces back the stages of a spectacular intervention.
As a child, Danh Vo fled Vietnam with his family and, taken aboard a Danish freighter, began a new life in Copenhagen. Since then, the artist began wondering about the concept of borders in history and contemporary society...
Known to be one of the most important artistic piece of the 20th century, Einstein on the Beach, an opera in four acts, launched the international careers of its authors: composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson...
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