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
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.
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
$28.00 ·
—Giasco Bertoli
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
$8.00 ·
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.
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
$38.00 ·
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.
Akazukin
Yukari Miyagi, Akazukin
Softcover, 40 pp., offset 4/1, 18 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$22.00 ·
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.
Pigxote
Harmony Korine, Pigxote
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 1/1, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$28.00 ·
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.
Foreclosure
Taro Hirano, Foreclosure
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 200
Published by Nieves
$12.00 ·
Taro and Hina Hirano are the founders of No.12 Gallery in Shibuyaku, Tokyo. With contacts made in private life and at work, both in Japan and abroad, they provides an exhibitional space for his friends from various fields of artistic practice.
Because her Beauty is Raw and Wild
Klaus Born, Valentin Hauri and Oliver Krähenbühl, Because her Beauty is Raw and Wild
Softcover, 40 pp., offset 4/1, 20 x 26 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
The joint publication of Klaus Born, Valentin Hauri and Oliver Krähenbühl hosts three different ‘generations’ of painters and exposes three unique artistic approaches. Such a combination seduces us into comparative reflections, since inevitably the viewer explores and compares differences and similarities between the artists’ articulations, while also probing individual characteristics and approaches. Their works are broadly non-figurative – something they ‘superficially’ share – and in each case the artist’s paintings are supplemented by drawings and other works on paper. The venue offers an opportunity to study from a neutral angle – side by side– their individual approaches and themes; it provides a gateway to evaluate distinct aspects of an artistic stance in parallel positions. The selected works in juxtaposition sharpen the profiles of these individual positions and turn one’s attention to elements and features of and within the artistic process which accordingly – reinforced by a differentiated perception – discloses these features more accurately.
Deko+Munition
Peter Piller, Deko+Munition
Softcover, 42 postcards., offset 4/4, 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$24.00 ·
of photographs found on eBay using the search terms Deko+Munition (ammunition+decor). Each photograph has been taken by an eBay seller auctioning off ammunition cartridges. In keeping with their stated purpose as home decorations, each cartridge is lovingly portrayed in the sellers’ living rooms.
Over the last few years, Piller has been collecting these images for his archive and is now making them accessible for the first time in this selection of postcards.
Domicile Conjugal
Yuka Katagiri, Domicile Conjugal
Softcover, 20 pp., offset duotone, 11 x 17.5 cm
Edition of 1000
Published by Nieves
$8.00 ·
For Domicile Conjugal — a title borrowed from François Truffaut’s movie of 1970 — Katagiri (Sapporo, 1977) selects details from drawings made during the course of 2008. Her first published book focuses on architecture from a richly illustrated world built upon since 2003. Drawn freehand and without drafts, Katagiri’s skillful pen drawings give birth to a dimension populated by people and intelligent animals, hanging in the balance of the playful physics unique to her craft.
This Kind of Livin’
Taylor McKimens, This Kind of Livin’
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$14.00 ·
Taylor McKimens was born in 1976 and grew up in Winterhaven, California, a small town on the borders of Arizona and Mexico. Strong comic book influences and his childhood in a small desert border town lend an edge to the tragico-comic energy of his pieces, and moments of elegant painterliness can invest even his ugliest image with a complex beauty. His comics “The Drips,”and “Good Life” were recently published by Picturebox Inc, and his artwork has been featured internationally in venues such as P.S.1 MoMA, Deitch Projects, and Clementine Gallery in New York, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Galleri Loyal in Stockholm, Annet Gelink in Amsterdam, and Perugi Artecontemporanea in Padova, Italy.
Whyart — A La Mode
Aude Lehmann / Tan Wälchli, Whyart — A La Mode
Hardcover, 208 pp., offset 4/4, 16 x 21.5 cm
Texts in English and German
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
$38.00 · out of stock
The third volume asks what it means to be “à la mode” today. When Karl Lagerfeld works for H&M, Bruno crawls on the runway behind Paris Hilton and Louis Vuitton sell their bags inside a Murakami exhibition, this indicates that the frontiers which used to separate art and fashion, original and copy, in and out are no longer extant. A la mode therefore proposes a new approach to fashion. From Viktor&Rolf to 50Cent, from Kate Moss to Sarah Jessica Parker, the various contributors seek out a “third way” of fashion transcending the old dichotomies.
2001
Wesley Willis, 2001
Softcover, 24 pp., offset duotone, 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Edition of 500
Published by Nieves
out of print
The Exhibition WW vs. GRRRR was first realized in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and then went to s’Hertogenbosch (Holland) and Giza (Egypt). It combines the first retrospective of Willis’s oeuvre with an extensive selection of work by the young Swiss artist Ingo Giezendanner. 2001 is edited by Urs Lehni.