The point d'ironie originated during a discussion between agnès b., Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. A hybrid periodical - half magazine, half poster. 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 to indicate to the reader the ironic phrases in the text.
Around 6 times per year, agnès b. and the curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist give carte blanche to an artist, architect, filmmaker, musician photographer, writer… to appropriate the space of the paper.
100,000 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 all over the world.
The point d'ironie is presented at the Tokyo Art Book Fair, the largest annual arts publishing fair in Asia. Now in it’s third year, the fair gathers together arts publishers, gallery presses and self publishing artists from Japan and abroad.
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Born in 1961 in New Delhi where she lives and works, Dayanita Singh stands out as an important figure of the young generation of Indian artists.
Having ventured on numerous formats and methods of distribution for her photos (books illustrations, [... ]
Pierre Reimer was born and lives in Paris where his activities include photography, video, film and building cars for daring pilots.
A punishing concept of the Foreign Legion, “azimut droit” means to take the shortest route from A to B – as the [... ]
Point d'ironie is at NY Art Book Fair. Come and discover the Points d'ironie published until now along with a selection of book from galerie du Jour (Martin Parr, Ryan McGinley, Faith of graffiti, Marion Poussier, Abdelkader Benchamma, Pierre [... ]
In France, for the second year, the Point d'Ironie is invited by la Fiac. Join us from 22th to 25th October in the cour carrée of the Louvres. Available during the fair: #44 Hugues Reip & Melanie Counsell, #46 Carlos Cruz-Diez, #47 Koo Jeong-A, #48 [... ]
We are pleased and proud to share with all of you our satisfaction to receive the price of Artistic Directors' Club. It is a very important reward, which aim is to encourage creation and distinguish our work during the year 2008.
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FREE RETURNS
For a period of 10 days after you receive your parcel, agnesb.com will pay for the cost of returning any articles you do not wish to keep (offer valid only for packages posted in Metropolitan France).
In each package you will find a label marked Colissimo Services France, together with a RETURNS VOUCHER.
All you have to do is place this RETURNS VOUCHER inside your package (this is necessary for your order to be processed), stick the Colissimo Services France label on the outside and take it to the post office. Your parcel will be given priority treatment and we will proceed to reimburse the returned products.
So in future you can try on the goods you have purchased in the peace of your own home and take your time to decide.
See you very soon on agnesb.com.
