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The Point d’Ironie originated following a discussion between agnès b., Christian Boltanksi and Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1997. Six to eight issues are published every year, each one designed by an artist who makes it his own. Given free of charge, the Point d’Ironie is an atypical periodical, distributed in a scattered way - 100,000 copies are spread around the world, available in museums, galleries, book shops, schools, cinemas, and at agnès b. stores worldwide. Created by French poet Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the 19th century, the Point d'Ironie is a punctuation mark used at the end of sentences to point an ironic passage within a text.

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n°50 - Christian Boltanski
july 2010
n°50 - Christian Boltanski
Previously only available at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, in May, 2010, then again at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan in June, agnès b. is happy to present the new issue of Point d'Ironie designed by French artist Christian Boltanski, honoring his exhibition Personnes originally shown at the Grand Palais in Paris. Point d'Ironie is available at all agnès b. stores worldwide, and [... ]
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#special, Stéphane Hessel
2010 May
#special, Stéphane Hessel
“Responding to the call of Irony, the instrument of free spirits, we have recalled to mind those human rights, those fundamental freedoms proclaimed more than sixty years ago; we have compared them with the cruel violations perpetrated by so many States against their peoples – violations which have gone unpunished. It required a black brush and the mark of shame. But, to us, it seemed [... ]
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n°49 - Ryan McGinley
december 2009
n°49 - Ryan McGinley
“I first met Ryan McGinley in 2002 at a party somewhere in downtown New York, we talked and had a great connection… he showed me photos that he pulled from his pocket. They reminded me a bit of Nan Goldin’s works that I had showed at the Galerie du Jour in the 90’s. But Ryan’s photos were very different in the way he was photographing his friends -outdoors and close [... ]
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Point d'ironie worldwide
2009-06-07
2009-11-22
Point d'ironie worldwide
For the second year in a row, the Point d’Ironie has been invited to show at the 2009 FIAC in Paris during the 4-day art fair. Join us from October 22 – 25 at the Cour Carrée located in the Louvre Museum. Point d’Ironie issues available during the fair will include # 44  Hugues Reip & Melanie Counsell, #46 Carlos Cruz-Diez, #47 Koo Jeong-A, and #48 Walid Raad. [... ]
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n°48 - Walid Raad
july 2009
n°48 - Walid Raad
Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon. He lives and works in New York.To date, Walid Raad’s works include The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a project about the history of the Lebanese wars of the pastthree decades, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, a project about the history of art in the Arab world.« Over the past ten years, and throughout the Arab world I have [... ]
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A price for our Point d'Ironie
April 2009
A price for our Point d'Ironie
We are pleased to announce that the Point d’Ironie has been awarded the Artistic Directors’ Club award for 2008. Accepted by agnès b. on behalf of Point d’Ironie, the award aims to encourage thought and design and highlights our work during the year. www.leclubdesad.org
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n°47 - Koo Jeong-A
april 2009
n°47 - Koo Jeong-A
Born in Korea in 1967, Koo-Jeong-A now lives and works in London. In both her installations and more recently her photographs, Koo Jeong-A acts through small, discreet touches on daily life, taking the most commonplace-seeming things and surrounding them with a halo of unpredictable subjectivity. Her work plays on the ephemeral nature of her installations, and on their fragility and melancholy. [... ]
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Point d'ironie at MUSAC's Showcase !
2009-01-31
2009-06-21
Point d'ironie at MUSAC's Showcase !
During 5 months, MUSAC's Showcases hosts a project focused on Point d'ironie, the publication established in 1997 by French fashion designer agnès b. in cooperation with Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and French artist Christian Boltanski. Roughly four times a year, an artist is granted full control of the Point D'Ironie paperscape in a hybrid publishing project: part magazine, part [... ]
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n°46 - Carlos Cruz Diez
december 2008
n°46 - Carlos Cruz Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez, born in 1923, in Caracas, Venezuela, lives and works in Paris.This venezuelan artist is considered a leading figure of kinetik art since its origins in the sixties. His reflection is about colour, and founds expression in an optical research of its spatial perception.Chromosaturation, Paris 1965"These works belong to the idea that “culture” has always started on a [... ]
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n°45 - Robert Crumb
october 2008
n°45 - Robert Crumb
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Robert Crumb is considered to be the founding father of the underground strip cartoon. He is recognized for his remarkable style, inspired by the work of turn-of-the-century cartoon artists, and for his critical and satirical vision. Blues music and jazz, drugs, sex, fantasy and politics… his art work holds up a mirror to the history of the contemporary world.
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