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Michel Journiac Photographs

Editions Xavier Barral 2017 ISBN 9782365111300 Acqn 27253
Hb 19x24cm 180pp 130 col ills 37
Text in French

One of the major figures of body art in France, Michel Journiac developed a subversive work
questioning the society of his time. This monograph gathers the entire photographic work of a
pioneering artist who raised issues that still resonate today.

Using poetry, installation, performance and sculpture, it is through photography that Michel
Journiac kept for the most part traces of his actions playing with parody and transvestism.
Organized in series, his "photographic actions" are divided in three parts within the book: Piges
where he appears as a cross-dresser, Rituels and Contrats, as well as Icnes du temps prsent.

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Kollektsia! Art Contemporain en URSS en Russie 1950-2000

Editions Xavier Barral 2017 ISBN 9782365111270 Acqn 27279
Hb 24x30cm 368pp col ills 45
Text in French

For the first time, the 450 works of the Centre Pompidou Russian art collection are gathered in a
publication.

Resulting from an exceptional donation, this collection is the most important outside of Russia.
This corpus including paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos, established by
Olga Sviblova and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, gives a complete overview of the history of Russian
art from the second half of the 20th century by famous artists such as Ilya Kabakov and Oleg
Koulik, as well as more confidential ones, from Sots art, Conceptualism, Necrorealism to Non-
conformism movements. It demonstrates the specificity of this artistical scene formed on the
fringes of official art and under-represented outside of Russia.

A first exhibition of these acquisitions organized by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation, entitled
Kollektsia!, was presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from September 14, 2016 through
April 2, 2017.
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Claude Iverne Soudan

Editions Xavier Barral 2017 ISBN 9782365111225 Acqn 27287
Hb 24x28cm 240pp 190 ills col 45
Text in French

Claude Ivern has been exploring North and South Sudan for over twenty years. In this
monograph, he puts the viewers on the trail, letting them find their way on their own in this
journey. Working in both B&W and colour, he takes a sharp, sensitive and distanced look,
devoided of stereotypes, at the country and its inhabitants.

Having learned the Arabic language, the photographer wanders with persistence. He has built a
narrative outside of any event or news story where the numerous details breathe life to several
layers of interpretation of the image.

Winner of the 2015 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for this work, Claude Ivern has carried on his
project in South Sudan, the 193th state of the planet. Whereas the North is depicted in B&W,
Claude Ivern chose colour for the South to echo the ambient brouhaha. He observes the hasty
change of a nomadic society within a market economy.

The current situation in South Sudan created a change of direction for Claude Ivern. The slow
immersion specific to his approach became impossible with the movements of refugees. The
vagabond photographer decided then to meet with these refugees in France, on the outskirt of
cities at the border of Italy, in Brittany, near Paris, etc., conveying striking portraits from these
encounters.

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