THE OTHER IS ONESELF
2019
15,5 x 22 cm, 330 pages
Softcover with flaps, bound
Languages: all texts in their orginal langages and English translation
Sébastien de Ganay
Exhibition: THE OTHER IS ONESELF, 5th November to 14th December at FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna Austria
This comprehensive publication aims at providing a memory of our time and of an extraordinary project: THE OTHER IS ONESELF. The text brings together articles and testimonies from academics, novelists, journalists and filmmakers, who have lived through the situation of forced exile from the Second World War to the present day on different continents. This is accompanied by a curatorial commentary, an exhibition catalogue and an auction overview.
WITH TEXTS BY: BARBARA COUDENHOVE-KALERGI, JACQUES DERRIDA, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, MARIANNE HIRSCH, FIONA LIEWEHR, PHILIPP TRAUN, SAMAR YAZBEK, POEMS: SOLMAZ SHARIF OMAR YOUSSEF SOULEIMANE
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Sébastien de Ganay
Transposition and Reproduction
A Gothic Context
2017
21 x 26 cm, 304 pages
Softcover with flaps, bound
Languages: German, English
Design by Christoph Fuchs, Wien
Exhibition: Sébastien de Ganay. Transposition and Reproduction, 11. June – 15. October 2017, Dominikanerkirche Krems, Zeitkunst Niederösterreich
Sébastien de Ganay is currently one of the most innovative representatives of experimental painting and sculpture. With his work, he moves within the field between art and design. De Ganay uses a both sensual and minimalistic language of forms in his works, combining the representational and the abstract, the everyday and the exclusive in a refreshing way. His reliefs as well as his cardboard and furniture objects seem abstract yet familiar. “Why torture yourself when everything already exists. For all those who are at a loss, I recommend a moderate dose of shrewd plagiarism with a pinch of sustained inspiration. Possible result: a bit of art.” (Sebastien de Ganay)
WITH TEXTS BY MAX HENRY, JEANETTE ZWINGENBERGER, FLORIAN STEINIGER AND AN INTERVIEW BY BENEDICT LEDEBUR
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La beauté en partage
by Hubert d' Ornano
Le Cherche Midi
Published June 5, 2014
20 x 25cm, 183 pages
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Book Cover Illustration
The cover shows a detail of Sébastien de Ganay´s portrait of M. d´Ornano.
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Sébastien de Ganay ABSTRACT WORKS
CATALOLGUE 2008 - 2009
onestar press
2009
28,5 x 17,5 cm, 116 pages, full color
OPEN SYSTEM DISKS
TRIANGLES
BEERKAPSELS
ALL IN ONE
CARTONS & PICK-ME-UPS
WITH TEXTS BY RICHARD DYER, PATRICK JAVAULT
Each book contains a detailed technical plan and a Braille Alphabet card.
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Sébastien de Ganay portraits and sculptures
onestar press (osp monos)
December 2004
29 x 18,5 cm, 112 pages, full color, hard-cover
Sébastien de Ganay’s almost life-sized full body portraits consist of his trademark folds of plastic that literally create waves of relief--there is a balanced push-pull, background-foreground figure effect that is supported by the luminous white void on which all the figures float. They sometimes read as sculptures. On the other hand, the walls, cubes, cylinders, and circles of de Ganay’s sculptures, with their bright car-paint monochromes and curved or straight geometric picture planes, foreground their viewers almost like the figures in his portraits against their white voids. They sometimes read as paintings. This comprehensive full-color volume of de Ganay’s portraits and sculptures includes an insightful essay on his work, as well as an interview with the artist.
Introductory text by Richard Dailey
Interview by Benedict Ledebur
A letter to Sébastien by Erwin Wurm
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Windows
onestar press (onestar press movies by artists)
Published November 2002
This book was originally published to accompany the movie "Windows" by Siegrun Appelt
Book design : Sébastien de Ganay
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Killing time
onestar press
Published April 2001
Gratter, défigurer, détruire une image est un geste lourd pour celui qui le commet comme peut-être aussi pour celui qui constate le geste iconoclaste. La destruction partielle d'une photographie si celle-ci reproduit le visage humain simule une atteinte, un geste contre la personne photographiée. Mais elle est surtout la perte d'une référence spatiale et temporelle, de l'instant gravé, pour toujours, autour duquel la mémoire s'organise.
La douleur c'est justement la perte de ce qui était enregistré, l'impossible retour en arrière puisqu'il n'y a plus de quoi ancrer le souvenir.
Layout and alteration: Sébastien de Ganay
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Open City #11: Octo Ate Them All
Grove Press, Open City Books
Published August 1, 2000
248 pages
9 pages with photographs of Sébastien de Ganay´s paintings for the exhibition "Überfremdung"
About Open City:
The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick McCabe, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Edited by the writers Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck and originally published by the late Robert Bingham, writing from Open City has been included in many prestigious anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Known for launching the careers of today's best new writers, the editors are also committed to printing important unpublished work by writers from past eras, such as Richard Yates, Delmore Schwartz, Jim Thompson, Cyril Connolly, Edvard Munch, and Gregor von Rezzori. With its innovative and daring mix of the old and the new, Open City combines undiscovered writing by classic authors with a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making.