Matt Lock, Time Fears
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-81-4
Published by Nieves
$8.00 ·
“Nearly all of the pieces featured in this little publication were created in 2009 or 2010: a highly transformative period of time in my life. I began 2009 full of anxiety over the collapse of industrial civilization, almost all of my thinking dealt in speculating on the future. I was drawing a lot of ruins; ruins of a once high level civilization, landscapes of twisted metal, abandoned buildings and scattered garbage. Throughout this world strode weary wanderers, paranoids, thieves and criminals. There’s a streak of danger running throughout much of my 2009/2010 work. In the past, many of my characters looked as if they were hanging out rather comfortably (for the most part). These current characters are a bit more skittish, on edge. The spaces they inhabit are often unsettling… about to crumble or implode.
I’m obviously projecting a lot of my own fears and unease onto these drawings. The world that I’ve portrayed here is a broken world, a variation of a world I feel I’m being rapidly pushed towards. I find myself taking much of what I find around me and throwing it out into the future; I draw it into the future. I believe that I do this because I spend so much time in the future, mentally speaking. Time is a merciless tyrant, an enemy with whom I’ve been mentally battling this past year. I’ve always had time fears but never have they been so intense. There’s a fear of growing older, a fear of losing my youth (decay). And therein arises an urgency to “do something with myself” before I’m old and stuck in some kind of debt-trap or miserable job.
There’s a fear of the future and the large calamities that hide within it (nearly everything feels so uncertain and fragile to me). And then there’s a tremendous fear of destitution, as I’m always just barely making it by with each passing week. This overarching theme of “time fear” binds my work together and reveals the fractured nature of my mind (so much of which still resides in the future).
I seem to live in two worlds: the present and the soon-to-be. This collection of artwork is very personal to me, as I’m sure you can understand. I hope that you who identify with my time-based worries will bond with these pieces, perhaps finding your own time fears in my drawings and paintings, and I hope those of you less inclined to worry about time will find something here to ponder on and smile about.”
— Matt Lock
Art, Distribution, Insurrection, Matt lock, Nieves
Peter Piller, Materialien (C)
Softcover, 62 pp., offset 4/4, 155 x 205 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-84-5
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
Photographic portrait of the near surroundings of Ruhrschnellweg, freeway 40 in Bochum, Dükerweg with allotments, car tuning, cemetery, Burger King, noise barrier and fire station.
Art, Burger King, Distribution, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Nieves, Peter Piller, Photography
Erik Steinbrecher, Möhren in Athen
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-83-8
Published by Nieves
$8.00 ·
For his show
Wind in Athens/Möhren in Athen Erik Steinbrecher left Berlin for Athens, his suitcase packed with carrots. The artist’s art odyssee began. His chosen site for an intervention was the National Archaeological Museum. It is considered one of the great museums of the world and contains the richest collection of some of the most important artifacts from Greek antiquity worldwide. During his visit, Steinbrecher installed single carrots in the exhibition spaces; close to sculptures and artfacts, on bases and behind walls.
This sculptural and performative intervention has been photographed by the artist himself. For this publication Steinbrecher overworked these documents.
Art, Culture, Distribution, Erik Steinbrecher, National Archaeological Museum, Nieves
Will Sweeney, As Above So Below
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 5/5, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-78-4
Published by Nieves
$14.00 · out of stock –>
As Above So Below is a visual narrative based on a series of randomly selected photographs from my collection of National Geographic Magazine, dating between 1940 and the present day. The idea was to take visual motifs from a version of the real world and push them into the realm of the subconscious, a kind of dream generator. Dreams are made up of fragments of experiences, elements of stories which when laid side by side, often become striking or fantastical. Using a random number generating website I created a series of numbers. Each series became a month, year and page number, which were then cross referenced with a corresponding magazine. The first image that came up was from an article describing an archeological dig at a Corsican pagan tomb, the second a photograph of temple street market in Hong Kong, other references came up with pages of text and I would fix upon a phrase or name which conjured up an interesting image — such as an unfinished castle, upon an island or an animal shedding it’s skin. The theme of crossing dimensions and of an event happening simultaneously across the world emerged. The title comes from medieval hermetic philosophy, and relates to the alchemical relationship between microcosm (the body) and macrocosm (the universe).
Art, Distribution, National Geographic, Nieves, Will Sweeney
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 10
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-88-3
Published by Nieves
$20.00 ·
“A year ago, I visited Aichi prefecture in the end of summer. It was to reflect on the work of Nobuya Hitsuda, as well as to see the exhibition “In the Little Playground: Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students” that reflects on the time, in his 40 years of teaching experience, he spent with his students, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Kyoko Murase, Mika Kato and many more.
Although having visited on an assignment, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Even for people who are actively recognized, there are still moments, numerous times in your life, where one needs to spend those blue hours alone. The process, to be alone, to suffer with unsettled emotion, is necessary to move forward.
Around the same time, I was asked by chance to write an essay, and decided to write on raising children. Raising children is also about continuous time that cannot be controlled. In the end of that summer, those were the two things that were on my mind, so I decided to put together an issue for Here and There, focusing on the blue hour that can make our lives colorful, as well as the color blue itself.
I looked up at the blue sky. Blue is a color that represents the beauty of nature, but at the same time, it exists in many things manmade. Blue can be found in clothing you wear against your skin, somewhere near you, and far away. The aim is to seek for a blue in personal emotions and in the growing process of people and to find it scattered in the world. This, hoping that it will be an attempt to sprout something in people’s hearts.”
—Nakako Hayashi
Aki Goto, Akira Minagawa, Akira Onozuka, Aoi Nagae, Art, Bless, Distribution, Elein Fleiss, Fashion, Here and There, Katsumi Omori, Kazunari Hattori, Lactitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Nakako Hayashi, Nieves, Nobuya Hitsuda, Susan Cian, Takashi Homma, Takehito Koganezawa, Yukinori Maeda
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
$4.00 ·
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
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
$26.00 ·
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
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
$24.00 ·
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
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
$28.00 · out of stock
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
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
$18.00 ·
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
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
$14.00 ·
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
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.
Distribution, Geoff McFetridge, Nieves, Spike Jonze
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
$8.00 ·
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
