Edition Patrick Frey - Les presses du réel

2018

English edition

Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.

Jurczok 1001
Spoken Beats

2018

German edition

This anthology dedicated to spoken-word pioneer Jurczok 1001 compiles a wide selection of typed scripts, ranging from his early raps to pieces inspired by concrete poetry. The volume features a text by writer and performance artist Melinda Nadj Abonji.

Michael Günzburger, Lukas Bärfuss
Contact

2018

English edition (texts in English, German, Latin)

This publication features a series of lithographs which captured impressions of wild animals. This technique was developed by artist Michael Günzburger to explore with directness and immediacy the physical energy of bestiality. The series is accompanied by a text by writer Lukas Bärfuss which takes the reader on an expedition up through northern woods all the way to the frozen wilderness of an island in the North Sea.

Pierre Keller
My Colorful Life

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

Some four thousand Polaroids depicting nearly fifteen years in the life of artist and former director of the Lausanne art school, ECAL. This photographic diary offers an intimate and erotic portrait of Keller, from its time in 1970s New York to trips to South America and Europe. With texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon.

Kelly Beeman
Window Shopping

2018

English edition

The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.

Veronika Minder
Alfred Jonathan Steffen – Art Décor

2018

German edition

brings back to life the forgotten art of window-dressing, through an artistic and intimate portrtait of window-dresser Bob Steffen.

Beni Bischof
Texte 3

2018

bilingual edition (English / German)

Texte 3 is another pictureless book by Beni Bischof, printed in standard pocket size. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.

Giorgio di Noto
The Iceberg

2017

English edition

An extraordinary publication gathering a selection of stock images and original photographs drawn from the myriad ads for drug sales on the dark web designed to catch the consumer's eye. These photographs are invisible under normal light: printed in invisible ink, they can only be viewed under ultraviolet light (the publication includes a mini flashlight).

Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier
Years later...

2017

English edition

For three years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier have been taking candid photographs of people from all walks of life and of every age in public and semi-public urban spaces: on streets and city squares, in cafés and bars, train stations and airports, stores and shopping centers. Combined with genuine words taken from the internet or heard in the street, this photographic series is a comédie humaine of the present day and age.

Jörg Scheller, David & Tania Willen
Appetite for the Magnificent

2017

English edition

Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...

Emil Michael Klein
Paintings

2017

English edition

This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.

Francisca Silva
25 Memoranden

2017

English edition

First artist's book: 25 poetic notes on love written on a memorandum.

Mark Thomas Gibson
Early Retirement

2017

no text

Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.

Stéphan Landry
Tout va bien

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.

Josef Maria Schröder

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.

Anton Bruhin
Dämonen

2017

English edition

What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.

Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom

Keiichi Tanaami, Oliver Payne
Perfect Cherry Blossom

2017

English edition

Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.

Mélanie Veuillet
Tools of Disobedience

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

currently out of stock

185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.

Jean Willi
Steingesichter

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).

Claudia Comte
40 x 40

2017

English edition

(last copies available!)

This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
Continental Drift

2017

English edition

(last copies available!)

Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.

Eric Bachmann
Casa Verdi

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.

Barbara Heé
Waters

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.

Georg Keller
Georg Keller x Manor

2017

English edition

Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.

Jean-Luc Cramatte
Culs de ferme

2017

French edition

Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.

Peter Radelfinger
So wohl als ob

2017

German edition

This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.

Iwan Schumacher
1972 – At Home and on the Way

2017

bilingual edition (English / German)

Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.

Judith Bernstein
Dicks of Death

2016

English edition

Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.

Daniela Comani
Sunsets

2016

trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)

Photographic essay featuring pictures of inactive TV sets: a powerful semiotic reflection on the medium and its design.

Alan Reid
Warm Equations

2016

English edition

Monograph offering a collective literary and poetic rendering of Alan Reid's works.

Basile Mookherjee
Fully Fueled

2016

no text

Fully Fueled brings together pictures taken from 2012 to 2014 documenting the life of Emiratis through the lense of cars.

Arno Brandlhuber
Legislating Architecture Schweiz

2016

bilingual edition (English / French)

A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.

Clemens Marschall, Klaus Pichler
Golden days before they end

2016

English edition

A swan song for Vienna's drinking dens.

Andreas Tschersich
Peripher

2016

no text

Andreas Tschersich's photographic portraits of peripheral areas around the globe capture the uniformity of these transitional spaces that form the hidden face of urbanity.

Minimetal (Nik Emch & Laurent Goei)
11 mantras

2016

English edition

Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.

Elodie Pong
Paradise Paradoxe

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

This catalogue / artist's book interconnects disciplines to reflect upon the complex role of scent as a fluid vector of identity, myth and memory, post-evolutionary science, body-synthesis, capitalism, power and branding.

Female Chic

2016

English edition

The enticing story of fashion label Thema Selection and its founders, contemporaries and companions.

Beni Bischof
Texte 2

2016

bilingual edition (English / German)

A sequel to Texte, Texte 2 is another pocket-size artist's book presenting a mix bag from Bischof's exuberant collection of headlines, slogans, jokes, junk mail, lyrics, dialogues from movie scenes, aphorisms and a whole lot more—a present-day selection and yet a subjective quintessence of the textual archive he has amassed over the years.

Fabian Marti
Bilder 2005-2016

2016

English edition

A journey through the visual universe of Fabian Marti, whose mystical photograms celebrate the alteration of consciousness through substances and shapes.

Billy Sullivan
Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016

2016

English edition

The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.

Bad Bonn Songbook

2016

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, artists performing at the Café Bad Bonn in Fribourg were asked to put their songs on paper. The results proved as diverse as their musical styles and personalities, including everything from sheet music and lyrics with guitar tabs to photos and drawings (with Arto Lindsay, Will Oldham, Wire, Maja Ratkje, Timber Timbre, Thurston Moore, Herman Dune, Panda Bear, Flaming Lips, Suzanne Vega...).

Marie-Isabel Vogel & Alain Rappaport
Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig idrott

2016

bilingual edition (English / Swedish)

A photographic documentation from a field research on folk athletic contests in male rural Finland in the beginning of the 20th century.

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian
Her Majesty?

2016

English edition

The colorful and impertinent hijacking of a luxurious big size Taschen book celebrating Queen Elizabeth's jubilee.

Michele Sibiloni
Fuck it

2016

English edition

A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.

Barbara Davatz
As Time Goes By – Portraits 1982, 1988, 1997, 2014

2016

English edition

In 1982 Barbara Davatz photographed 12 young couples from the Zurich scen—lovers, friends or kin. She portrayed them again in 1988, 1997 and 2014, covering more than three decades of human relations, aesthetic and social evolution.

Prill Vieceli Cremers
Money

2016

English edition

An artist's book on worldwide monetary iconography.