Rebecca Blake, Forbidden Dreams
Hardcover, 132 pp., offset 4/4, 11 x 13 inches
Edition of 10,000
ISBN 0-7043-2475-X
Published by Quartet Books
$40.00 ·
condition:
very good, with dust jacket, shelf wear, first edition, excellent reference copy.
Forbidden Dreams (1984) is the first monograph by Belgian-born, New York-based photographer Rebecca Blake. Elegant and darkly alluring fashion photography/erotica from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Culture, David Leddick, Fashion, Lina Wertmuller, Photography, Quartet Books, Rebecca Blake, Used, Vincent Gagliostro
Maya Hayuk, Round The Way
Softcover, 20 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-79-1
Published by Nieves
$14.00 ·
In the olden days — when Europeans still thought the earth was flat — the universe was sometimes compared to the inside of a human skull. This was our notion of the infinite that lies beyond the world we live in, as a reflection of the infinity of our powers of thought and perception. This comparison, and the discovery of the most far-flung corners of the universe using the Hubble Space Telescope, are the basis of
Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields by Brooklyn artist Maya Hayuk.
Round the Way is a collection of paintings from the last two years leading up to Ultra, Ultra Deep Fields, Maya Hayuk’s exhibition at MU. Next to Round the Way Maya Hayuk also compiled the double CD soundtrack Inside Spaces, that will be available in a limited edition through MU.
Art, Distribution, Maya Hayuk, MU, Nieves
Huge Supplement
Softcover, 24 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
Supplement to Huge Magazine No. 72
Published by Nieves
$12.00 ·
Huge Supplement (supplement to Huge Magazine No. 72) with Beni Bischof, Chris Johanson, Dimitri Broquard, Hendrik Hegray, Ingo Giezendanner, Johanna Jackson, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann, Stefan Marx, Warja Lavater, and Will Sweeney.
Art, Beni Bischof, Chris Johanson, Dimitri Broquard, Distribution, Hendrik Hegray, Huge Magazine, Ingo Giezendanner, Johanna Jackson, Kim Gordon, Nieves, Rita Ackermann, Stefan Marx, Warja Lavater, Will Sweeney
Raffi Kalenderian, Memoranda
Softcover, 24 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-85-2
Published by Nieves
$18.00 ·
In Kalenderian’s works everything plays on the foreground. There are no horizons and no perspective. The artist reveals his world directly to us, showing us his friends, as if he had no secrets. His friends often seem melancholic while their environment is very colourful. Colourful details of clothes, materials or furniture seem to be striving to attract the spectator’s attention and distract from the figures. We often encounter the figure Shanti. Shanti is the artist´s brother. He is painted as a young man, sometimes almost androgynous, sometimes like a tough guy. It remains uncertain whether Kalenderian wants to reveal something to us about Shanti, Frankie or Elizabeth with his paintings. None of the figures look directly at us, but all of them seem to be in contact with us. We are the witnesses of their existence.
Memoranda, the title of the book and exhibition, can be likening portraiture to notes and memos kept for history, but not too specific to take away from someone’s own unique experience. In fact Kalenderian’s works are, as the artists himself states, a proof or better an evidence of existence.
Art, Distribution, Nieves, Raffi Kalenderian, Shanti Kalenderian
Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich, Things to Say (Viktor)
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 1/1, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-70-8
Published by Nieves
$14.00 ·
Before
Viktor there was
Hektor, a relatively simple spray-can output device driven by two motors. Invented in collaboration with the engineer Uli Franke, it made its debut as Jürg Lehni’s art-school graduation project at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2002 and has performed regularly ever since.
Far from being a closed mechanical device — a black box between creative impulse and output — the concern of Hektor (and now Viktor) is the nuanced interaction between the user and the technologies of communication. The drawing machine Viktor is an amalgam of digital and mechanical technologies. A collage of tools, all of which were invented for other general and specific uses.
In response to the position of such technologies, Lehni together with Alex Rich started an ongoing e-mail correspondence about various devices, systems and technologies with which their work had a resonance. Lehni and Rich constructed an archive, one that they came to call A Recent History of Writing & Drawing and which inspired their installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2008).
Upending assumptions that any one kind of communication is more authentic, more direct or more valid that any other, A Recent History of Writing & Drawing finds meaning, texture and poetry in the most unlikely places.
Things to Say (Viktor) is the first in a series of collected drawings produced in collaboration with invited guests to perform with Viktor every Thursday evening at the ICA throughout the duration of the exhibition, curated by Emily King.
Alex Rich, Art, Distribution, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Emily King, Hektor, Jürg Lehni, Nieves, Uli Franke, Viktor
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
Frédéric Post, Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills
Hardcover, 544 pp., offset 1/1, 154 x 232 mm
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-2-940409-02-0
Published by Boabooks
$68.00 ·
The patterns used in
Anonymous Engravings on Ecstasy Pills were designed by unknown people who abandoned them. In this book of drawings, Frédéric Post offers a piece of research worthy of a modern-times archaeologist. He collected and re-created these figures, conferring thus value to an underground iconography of over 500 signs.
The classification of the drawings into three groups (figures, typography, symbols) was carried out with Izet Sheshivari. The collection shows elements of a visual folklore that hints at popular figures. The book implicitly describes our societies’ ambiguities: “Nowadays, with drug use, we want to experiment this unconstrained pleasure, disrupt the humdrum routine, make love longer; we want to party even though we are tired (…). At the end of the day, this is in line with the whole idea of work, profitability and performance”. Is ecstasy therefore an excessive metaphor of the market economy?
Art, Boabooks, Culture, Distribution, Frédéric Post, Izet Sheshivari
The Split Show
Hardcover, 144 pp., offset 4/1, 230 x 200 mm
Edition of 450
ISBN 978-2-940409-18-1
Published by Boabooks
$38.00 ·
A wall-less group show
Publishing a book is in many ways similar to curating a show. The Split Show is the outcome in this idea — a group artists book. The basic idea was to ask artists to create a recto/verso 720 x 1020 mm poster. Once folded, this format becomes a 24-page 230 x 200 mm folio.
Aloïs Godinat, Art, Babak Radboy, Boabooks, Derek Sullivan, Distribution, Izet Sheshivari, Jérémie Gindre, Marc Kremers, Oliver Laric, Susanne Bürner
Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Yves Klein: With The Void, Full Powers
Hardcover, 352 pp., offset 4/4, 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-0-935640-94-6
Published by Walker Art Center
$65.00 ·
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is published to accompany the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years. It includes examples from all of Klein’s major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, fire paintings, planetary reliefs and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold and pink monochromes, body and sponge reliefs, “air architecture” and immaterial works. Essays by curators Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne, Klein scholar Klaus Ottmann, art historian Kaira M. Cabañas and curatorial fellow Andria Hickey, as well as archival materials and translations of Klein’s published and unpublished writings, offer insights into the artist’s endeavors and process. Born in Nice, France, in 1928, Yves Klein created what he considered his first artwork when he signed the sky above Nice in 1947, making his earliest attempt to capture the immaterial. The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism, philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as “the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.”
Andrew Blauvelt, Andria Hickey, Architecture, Art, Dante Hong Carlos, DAP, Deborah Horowitz, Hatje Cantz, Hirshhorn Museum, Kaira M. Cabañas, Kerry Brougher, Klaus Ottmann, Lisa Middag, Philippe Vergne, Theory, Walker Art Center, Yves Klein
Richard Aldrich
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 4/4, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-615-26984-9
Published by Bortolami
$25.00 ·
Richard Aldrich’s abstract painting juggles delicacy of line and palette with warmth of touch, a combination that fills his works with a cheerful humanity, or what Art in Review memorably described as a “slackerish cosmopolitanism.” Collage elements introduce a playful take on Whistler’s famous portrait of his mother.
An Art Service, Art, Bortolami, DAP, Farzad Owrang, Jay Sanders, Richard Aldrich
