Point d’ironie*
A hybrid periodical - half magazine, half poster


Around 6 times per year, agnès b. and Hans-Ulrich Obrist give carte blanche to an artist to appropriate the space of the paper. An 8-page tabloid format, identical for each artist. Repetition and difference.

This is not a paper about art, each issue is created by an artist, architect, filmmaker, musician photographer, writer…

100,000 to 300,000 copies are available free of charge around the world (in bookshops, museums, galleries, schools, cafés, etc.), as well as in all of the agnès b. locations (France, Europe, USA, Asia).



Point d’ironie n° 37 by Ed Ruscha at agnès b., rue du Jour, Paris.
Sculpture by Jen-chri.



Point d’ironie n° 36 by Tacita Dean, at agnès b.
Sculpture by Jen-chri.




Idea: offer works of art on paper in the age of electronic communication–to touch, to read (or not), to exhibit, to frame, to archive, to throw away or wrap gifts with – destined to appear and to disappear.

It was founded in 1997 by agnès b., Christian Boltanski, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Carrie Pilto.

*Invented by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the 19th century, the point d'ironie is a punctuation mark, which can be used at the end of sentences (like an exclamation point or question mark) to indicate to the reader the ironic phrases in the text.


Read an interview with christian boltanski,
interview realized for the catalogue of the exhibition Point d'ironie at the
International Center of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
January 13 - February 29, 2004.

 


Issues published to date :

n°0 : Jonas Mekas, may 1997
n°1 : Joseph Grigely, june 1997
hors série : C.B., septembre 1997 - hommage à James Lee Byars
n°2 : Gilbert & George, october 1997
n°3 : Douglas Gordon, november 1997
n°4 : Marlene Streeruwitz, february 1998
n°5 : Annette Messager, april 1998
n°6 : Lawrence Weiner, may 1998
n°7 : Christian Boltanski, july 1998
n°8 : Itsuko Hasegawa et Dan Graham, september 1998
n°9 : Gabriel Orozco, december 1998
n°10 : Claude Lévêque, january 1999
n°11 : Hans-Peter Feldmann, march 1999
hors série : Martin Parr, april 1999
n°12 : Harmony Korine, may 1999
n°13 : Antoinette Ohannessian et Toni Negri, july 1999
n°14 : Louise Bourgeois,october 1999
n°spécial : Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, january 2000
n°15 : Roni Horn, february 2000
n°16 : Richard Billingham, may 2000
n°17 : John Giorno et Ugo Rondinone, october 2000
n°18 : RosemarieTrockel, december 2000
n°19 : Cedric Price, february 2001
n°20 : Chen Zhen, march 2001
n°21 : Raymond Hains, july 2001
n°22 : Gilbert & George, september 2001
n°23 : Thomas Hirschhorn, october 2001
n°24 : Yona Friedman, december 2001
n°spécial : Navin Rawanchaikul, january 2002
n°25 : Matthew Barney, june 2002
n°26 : Christian Boltanski, june 2002
n°27 : Hanne Darboven, june 2002
n°28 : Raqs Media Collective, june 2002
n°29 : Edouard Glissant with Les périphériques vous parlent,
november 2002
n°30 : Claude Closky june 2003
n°31 : Yoko Ono december 2003
n°32 : Paul-Armand Gette january 2004
n°spécial : Hors-série (32 bis)january 2004
n°33 : Philippe Parreno april 2004
n°34 : Michel Foucault september 2004
n°35 : Yona Friedman october 2004
n°spécial : Nancy Spero april 2005
n°36 : Tacita Dean may 2005
n°37 : Ed Ruscha june 2005
n°38 : Ryan McGinness january 2006
n°39 : Richard Prince avril 2006
n°40 : Damien Hirst septembrer 2006
n°41 : Raymond Hains novembrer 2006
n°42 : Tobias Buche january 2007
n°43 : Hreinn Fridfinnsson august 2007
n°44 : Hugues Reip & Melanie Counsell july 2008
n°45 : Robert Crumb october 2008
n°46 : Carlos Cruz-Diez december 2008
n°47 : Koo Jeong-A avril 2009
For further information, or to become a point d’ironie distributor, please contact us at ironie@agnesb.fr