Francis Picabia
Published by Seibu, Tokyo, 1984, 149 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 27 cm, Japanese/​English/​French
Price: €40

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, at The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, 21 July–5 September, 1984 and the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 9 September–21 October 1984.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1984 #francispicabia #painting
1999/2000
Francis Picabia
Published by APT International, Tokyo, 1999, Two volumes in cardboard slipcase, 225 pp. & 120 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25 cm, English/​French/​Japanese
Price: €95

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, which travelled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 12 August–7 September, 1999; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, 17 October–14 November 1999; Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka, 26 January–9 February, 2000.

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France and was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1999 #francispicabia #painting
The No Texts (1979–2003)
Steven Parrino
Published by Abaton Book Company, New Jersey & JRP Editions, Geneva, 2003, 56 pp. (b/w ill.), 14 × 19.1 cm, English
Price: €120

First anthology of the writings by the American painter Steven Parrino. Predominantly a painter, in his oeuvre Parrino developed a unique visual idiom that, on the one hand, draws on various subcultural movements and, on the other, displays clear references to the history of visual art of the twentieth century and beyond. Parrino’s work is defined by an unconditional will to be free that stems from American biker culture and is also influenced by punk rock existentialism.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

#2003 #artistswritings #jrpeditions #painting #stevenparrino
Disobedience
Jacqueline de Jong
Published by JRP|Editions, Zurich, 2025, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.5 × 32 cm, English?German
Price: €42

Published to accompany the artist’s retrospective at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (September 2025–March 2026), this comprehensive monograph offers a detailed overview of the work of Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Designed by Sabo Day and edited by Melanie Bühler, curator of the exhibition, this publication spans De Jong’s entire artistic journey of from her editorial activities and bold figurative paintings of the 1960s to her Billiards series in the 1970s, and her latest series of the 2020s that reflect the current state of the world.

#2025 #jacquelinedejong #jrpeditions #melaniebuhler #painting #saboday
Jiří Kovanda
Published by University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne & Galerie Výtvarného Umění v Chebu/Gavu Cheb, 2010, 288 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 24 cm, Czech/English
Price: €28

A monograph on the work of Jiří Kovanda, on which Markéta Stará writes about the book’s production: “(Kovanda’s) aim to dissolve the line between art and life brings him to manipulate familiar objects from the outside world and incorporate them into works that, outside of the gallery context (and sometimes even within it), could easily be overlooked. This near invisibility resonates with Kovanda’s efforts to escape artistic trends and avoid any reductive framing. Although it could be argued that his oeuvre hovers on the border between kitsch and high aesthetics, his goal is to test the possibility of their equivalence and thus to deconstruct the distinction between art objects and utilitarian objects. It is exactly this endeavor that brought Kovanda to use the occasion of the publication of a catalogue to transform the book into an art object and make it the subject of his latest exhibition.”

#2010 #jirikovanda #painting
Jiří Kovanda
Published by University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne & Galerie Výtvarného Umění v Chebu/Gavu Cheb, 2010, 288 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 24 cm, Czech/English
Price: €28

A monograph on the work of Jiří Kovanda, on which Markéta Stará writes about the book’s production: “(Kovanda’s) aim to dissolve the line between art and life brings him to manipulate familiar objects from the outside world and incorporate them into works that, outside of the gallery context (and sometimes even within it), could easily be overlooked. This near invisibility resonates with Kovanda’s efforts to escape artistic trends and avoid any reductive framing. Although it could be argued that his oeuvre hovers on the border between kitsch and high aesthetics, his goal is to test the possibility of their equivalence and thus to deconstruct the distinction between art objects and utilitarian objects. It is exactly this endeavor that brought Kovanda to use the occasion of the publication of a catalogue to transform the book into an art object and make it the subject of his latest exhibition.”

#2010 #jirikovanda #painting