Free Press Light Catalog 1

Cosmic Wonder, Free Press Light Catalog 1
Softcover, 36 pp., offset 4/4, 148 x 205 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-76-0
Published by Nieves

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The Solar Garden COSMIC WONDER Light Source is a new ecological lifestyle project made with the harmonized energy of the earth and its plants.

This 100% organic cotton collection ranges from daily wear to dance wear, underwear, towels, and scarves. The entire production process is chemical-free. The cotton is grown free of petrochemical fertilizers and sprayed insecticides. All products are hand-dyed with herbs: akane, gardenia, pomegranate, mulberry leaf, rose bengal, catechu, and natural indigo. Prints are also done by hand with herbal dyes. Though these processes are time-consuming, we believe that the care that goes into making them is reflected in the natural beauty of the finished pieces.

Art, Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Fashion, Nieves

Safari

Anders Edström, Safari
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-58-6
Published by Nieves

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In Anders Edstrom’s Safari photographs, for instance, a slow, deliberate looking, a looking focused on a singular subject, a looking that by all appearances holds the outside world at bay, nonetheless reveals an image of openness one might better expect from street or landscape photography, genres bent by time, context, event, and change. But what changes in these Safari pictures? Do they have time or context? What is their world?

—Bennett Simpson

Anders Edstrom, Bennett Simpson, Distribution, Lucas Quigley, Nieves

Five Points

Georg Gatsas, Five Points
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-72-2
Published by Nieves

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What makes Georg Gatsas’ work particularly significant is that it is a historical document. This approach puts the art back into artifact. Now we are looking at his images much in the way others must have looked at images of people in the same places over one hundred years ago. I enjoy imagining someone like Georg Gatsas in one hundred years looking at the book you are reading now, I wonder what they might have to say or might be able to learn about these places, people and things.

—James Fuentes

Art, Culture, Distribution, Georg Gatsas, James Fuentes, Nieves, Photography

Baku & Back

Ingo Giezendanner, Baku & Back
Softcover, 176 pp., offset 1/1, 132 x 180 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-75-3
Published by Nieves

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This summer, inspired by a cultural exchange program with the Caucasus,
I travelled by land from Zurich to Baku and back. My objective was to document the journey with pen on paper. Though the culture exchange eventually did fail, the experience was intoxicating to my pen and I. The drawings capture the gradual change of scenes from Switzerland through the former Yugoslavian states, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia before finally arriving in Azerbaijan (to travel back again just see the book backwards). This is my statement to go out, see the world and avoid airplanes. Take your time and enjoy the view on your train ride.

—Ingo Giezendanner

Art, Distribution, Illustration, Ingo Giezendanner, Nieves

I’m Here

Spike Jonze, I’m Here
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-77-7
Published by Nieves

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Spike Jonze’s new half-hour short film titled I’m Here is a robot love story celebrating a life enriched by creativity. The movie is set in contemporary Los Angeles, where life moves at a seemingly regular pace with the exception of a certain amount of robot residents who live among the population. A male robot librarian lives a solitary and methodical life — devoid of creativity, joy and passion — until he meets an adventurous and free spirited female robot.

Distribution, Film, Nieves, Spike Jonze

The Wildlife Analysis

Dimitri Broquard, The Wildlife Analysis
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 6/6, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-71-5
Published by Nieves

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The Wildlife Analysis is an psychedelic-ethnographic journey to an indefinite country. Usings ballpoint pen mixed with fluorescent and coloured pencil, Dimitri Broquard creates drawings that translate as a lost world, a place between the romantic and the baroque. Broquard seeks inspiration from the Age of Enlightenment, the time of discovering and explaining the world, the myth of “The Savage”, the confrontation of rationality and mysticism.

Art, Dimitri Broquard, Distribution, Nieves

Recent Work

Geoff McFetridge, Recent Work
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-74-6
Published by Nieves

out of print

This book is a small collection of some of the work I have done for Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the book Where the Wild Things Are.

Design, Distribution, Geoff McFetridge, Nieves, Spike Jonze

Ital Thai Chinese and Paint

Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher, Ital Thai Chinese and Paint
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-73-9
Published by Nieves

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Ital Thai Chinese and Paint is a compilation of the first collaborative work by Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher. The booklet shows montages of photographs and paintings. All the photographed advertisings are collected in the streets. The paintings on paper are studio works. Both materials, views of fusion food and plates of abstract designs are melted. These “painted meals” can be considered as ornaments in the urban context of fast gastronomy and catering.

Art, Distribution, Erik Steinbrecher, Nieves, Zuni Halpern

Here and There 9

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 9
Softcover, 56 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-69-2
Published by Nieves

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The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.

Nakako Hayashi writes: “There are various lives, various moments and various emotions. I wish to capture the ripples of emotion in our daily lives as seeds, right before they turn into fluff and float away. I wish to keep observing what grows from there. I guess this may be what I want to do with Here and There.”

Aiko Yamada, Art, Culture, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Laetitia Bena, Midori Araki, Miranda July, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Photography, Takashi Homma, Yurie Nagashima

Blueberry Express

Misaki Kawai, Blueberry Express
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 16 x 22.5 cm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-68-5
Published by Nieves

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Blueberry Express is a collection of images from New York based / Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. The book features Kawai’s larger scale paintings, sculptural installations and snapshots of her working in her New York studio over the past two years.

Distribution, Misaki Kawai, Nieves

Marfa/Crash

Rita Ackermann, Marfa/Crash
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 26 x 38 cm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-66-1
Published by Nieves

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Issue #7 of THE international with Rita Ackermann, featuring drawings, collages, photographs and new paintings that were inspired by and created during Rita Ackermann’s stay in Texas; the dry air of Texas, drawings of girls, crashed cars, and the story of a local cowboy.

Distribution, Nieves, Rita Ackermann

Unter dem Motto

Unter dem Motto. One Day Self Publishing Fair
Motto is proud to invite you to the event “Unter dem Motto — One Day Self Publishing Fair”, organized in occasion of a weekend dedicated to art publications in Berlin. On Saturday, September 5th, 60 publishers coming from 18 countries, selected by Nieves, Rollo Press and Motto, will fill the spaces of Motto bookshop and Chert gallery with their productions. This one-day event presents an eclectic mix offering a careful overview on the importance and constant growth of autonomous publishing nowadays, from home-printed zines to publications by renowned institutions. 40+ booths will give the oportunity to the audience to meet the publishers and browse titles in a friendly athmosphere.

“Unter dem Motto” is organized in parallel of the presentation of the newly acquired exhibition “KIOSK – Modes of multiplication” on Thursday, September the 3rd, at Staatliche Kunstbibliothek Berlin and the Art Books fair: “Miss Read”, organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, from September 4th to 6th.

Unter dem Motto
Saturday, September 5th
12.00 am — 12.00 pm

Motto/Chert
Skalitzer Str. 68
10997 Berlin
U1 Schlesisches Tor
Tel: +49 30 75442119

Fillip, FormContent, Harsh Patel, Hassla Books, Mono.Kultur, Motto, Nieves, Paperback, Passenger Books, Rollo Press, Seems Books, Slavs and Tatars, True True True

Cosmic Wonder Free Press — Sunday Edition

Cosmic Wonder Free Press — Sunday Edition
Softcover, 68 pp., offset 4/1, 21.5 x 25.2 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

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For this photo book of the new CWLS 3 collection, Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Takashi Homma, and Henry Roy describe four scenes of everyday life as they splinter into Light Streams, catching the manifold reflections of universal love.

Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Henry Roy, Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Nieves, Takashi Homma, Yukinori Maeda

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2
Softcover, 36 pp., offset 1/1 + gold/silver metallic, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

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This is an open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of COSMIC WONDER in printed form. A fold-out poster accompanies each book.

Comprised of letters from friends ”about light” – Visual collaborations with Elein Fleiss (editor-in-chief of The Purple Journal), Mike Mills (graphic designer/artist/film director) and YOSHIMIO (OOIOO/Boredoms).

Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Nieves, Yukinori Maeda

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 1

Cosmic Wonder Free Press 1
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 1/1 + gold/silver metallic, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

With aim to further reflect and pursue the expanding expression onto each particular direction, in 2007, Cosmic Wonder is anouncing three projects with distinct processes: Cosmic Wonder, Cosmic Wonder Light Source and Yukinori Maeda.

The new unconventional periodical publication Cosmic Wonder Free Press was produced to lay out the three projects with visuals. It is the first in a series of special collaborations between Cosmic Wonder and Nieves. Cosmic Wonder Free Press will be published with free pace and free format as its title suggests.

Cosmic Wonder, Nieves, Yukinori Maeda

Here and There 8

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 8
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

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“The reason I decided to have the idea of loneliness as the subject of our feature was nourished through my e-mails with Elein Fleiss. It all started when I asked her, for a magazine, about Purple Journal’s editorial direction. She then mentioned that as we live in the present, she sensed the need for artists to face the loneliness within. I was touched by her point of view and began to think that I would like to deal with the issue in Here and There as well. I truly hope that the feeling I nurtured for half a year will become the new seed for people who may pick up this issue.

This SANPO issue began from a chance conversation I had with Akira Onozuka. As trees grow older every year, Here and There has slowly, but steadily, brought people together and has grown in the past six years. I would like to send my gratitude to everyone who took part in helping me with this issue, including the writing, photography and translation. As you may have decided to pick this up, I wish that I will meet you someday, somewhere.”

—Nakako Hayashi

Distribution, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves

Here and There 7

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 7
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

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Here and There Vol.7 is dedicated to the cities of Paris and Tokyo, looking at them through the eyes of its wide contributors’ family spread around the world. We are taken into a whirlwind of overlapping stories and emotions, through the words and images of Takashi Homma, Elein Fleiss, Susan Cianciolo, Julian Gatto, Kim Gordon, Mike Mills, Benjamin Sommerhalder and most importantly Nakako Hayashi, the mind behind it all.

Anne Daems, Benjamin Sommerhalder, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Jeff Burch, Julian Gatto, Kasane Nagawa, Kazunari Hattori, Kenneth Andrew Mroczek, Kenshu Shintsubo, Kim Gordon, Mark Borthwick, Mike Mills, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Pascale Gatzen, Ruthie Doyle, Susan Cianciolo, Takashi Homma, Yukinori Maeda

Here and There 6

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 6
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

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Here and There comes back, after two years of absence from the independent magazine scene, with Unexpected Travelling Issue, a sixth issue which counts already familiar but also new illustrious collaborations.

In Nakako’s own words, the vision behind the Unexpected Travelling Issue was: “One day, someone told me her ideal garden is what looks like no one is taking care of, and have so many different pretty flowers in springtime. The other day my friend told me she has an ideal image of bringing up kids even though in reality she has to deal with daily life living in crowded Tokyo. I am into those stories, and new issue must be something related to this ‘ideal’ world. in each people’s minds. Maybe you can talk about ideal books making”

Anne Daems, Bless, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Els Beusen, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma, Yayako Uchida, Yoshimi, Yukinori Maeda, Yurie Nagashima

Here and There 5

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 5
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Elein Fleiss, Purple Journal’s editor-in-chief, speaks of Nakako Hayashi and her magazine Here and There: When I met Nakako Hayashi, she was still working for Hanatsubaki magazine. Then, in 2001 she decided to go on her own and started Here and There in the spring of 2002. The first issue came out in March of that year, and the moment I first saw it remains in my memory as an important event in the world of independent magazines.

Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako’s name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.

Bless, Daisuke Miyatsu, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Kazunari Hattori, Mark Borthwick, Midori Araki, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takako Minekawa, Takashi Homma

Here and There 4

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 4
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Cosmic Wonder, Distribution, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Laetitia Benat, Marc Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Takashi Homma, Yukinori Maeda, Yurie Nagashima

Here and There 2

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 2
Softcover, 32 pp., offset 4/4, 297 x 420 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Anne Daemes, Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Lutz, Martin Margiela, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo, Wendy&Jim

Here and There 1

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 1
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves

out of print

Ann-Sofie Back, Cosmic Wonder, Elein Fleiss, Here and There, Kazunari Hattori, Mike Mills, Nieves, Susan Cianciolo

Tennis Courts

Giasco Bertoli, Tennis Courts
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/4, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-3-905714-65-4
Published by Nieves

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“I started photographing empty tennis courts in southern Switzerland in 1999, on the border to Italy. The work came about by chance. Some time after I’d moved to Paris, I was back in Switzerland, walking in the woods near were I grew up and I came across an abandoned tennis court. I photographed that one, then courts around the neighbourhood where I grew up, and have continued to photogragraph deserted tennis courts ever since. In general I think about images from my adolescence and also think of the visual experiences I’ve had with film as an experience of real life.”

—Giasco Bertoli

Giasco Bertoli, Nieves

Ffor #7 – Born Again in DC3000

Jonas Delaborde, Ffor #7 – Born Again in DC3000
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 11.2 x 17.8 cm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-3-905714-67-8
Published by Nieves

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Born Again in DC3000 (De Chirico 3000) shows different views of a touristic complex in/about ruins in a world before (or after) humanity. Psychedelic drugs effects are now some frozen projections in the sky, NASA rovers go on forever on Mars surface, taking pictures that no one will ever see and what’s left of buildings has been made in holographic materials mixed with wood and trash. History has stuck the cosmos in postcards, printed with blood, grass juice and star powder.

Jonas Delaborde, Nieves

Drukgraphik/Prints

Verena Loewensberg, Drukgraphik/Prints
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 4/1, 23 x 23 cm
Texts in English and German
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-51-7
Published by Nieves

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The Zurich painter Verena Loewensberg (1912-1986) belongs to the core group of concrete artists in Switzerland, alongside Max Bill, Camille Graeser and Richard Paul Lohse. Since the exhibition on “Zeitprobleme in der Schweizer Malerei und Plastik” held in 1936 at the Kunsthaus Zürich, she took part at all the important public appearances of this group. Even before 1937, she had already been an active member of “Allianz”, the Swiss artists’ association, and it was within these circles that her earliest prints emerged. Next to some lithographs, her woodcuts and linocuts are rated as the most splendid examples of concrete Swiss graphics. At a later stage, she only used the silkscreen technique which had become popular in Europe during the sixties. Like Lohse, Bill and Graeser, by using the silkscreen technique to produce graphics, she could best create evenly thick colour surfaces that are both distinct, yet adjoin each other with exact precision.

Nieves, Verena Loewensberg

Akazukin

Yukari Miyagi, Akazukin
Softcover, 40 pp., offset 4/1, 18 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves

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Full-page drawings unfold one after another in this captivating, picture-book, tangibly carrying the lively, childlike style of artist Yukari Miyagi. This visual interpretation of Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, written over 300 years ago, is a unique and refreshing take on the well-loved fairy tale.

Nieves, Yukari Miyagi

Pigxote

Harmony Korine, Pigxote
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 1/1, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves

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Pigxote brings together forty-nine photographs from Korine’s private archive in order to reveal a side of the artist’s creative process that remains largely unexamined. Depicting a mysterious young girl moving through a televised landscape of shifting contexts, Pigxote further illustrates Korine’s interest in replacing plot lines and other narrative tropes with intuitively arranged “experiential moments.” They also provide a unique insight into the poetic mind of Nashville’s most compelling prodigal son.

Harmony Korine, Nieves

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