1 SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue Various Artists €26.68 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...
2 New Photographic Objects Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO €46.69 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “New Photographic Objects” catalogue e...
3 Rare Comme des Garçons Zine Bundle Vvery Negative Gucci Production Out of Stock This set of seven zines made by the anonymous collective Vvery Negative Gucci Production and designer Texas Knuller celebrates the work of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo and her fashion label Comme des Garcons. Six of the zines are dedicated to the inventive, unusual styles...
4 Signed, Rare Chan Wai Kwong's Special Box CHAN Wai-Kwong €303.15 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout This rare box, created by Chan Wai Kwong himself, contains nine photobooks as well as several additional “gifts from the artist,” such as original Fuji Instax photographs, prints and stickers. Selected to represent a comprehensive vision of Chan Wai Kwong's oeuvre, the photobo...
5 The Beginning Place Yoshitomo NARA €23.34 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Published on the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara’s major solo exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art, “The Beginning Place” guides readers through the career of this exceptional Japanese artist. Beginning with one of Nara’s earliest oil paintings (discarded as ‘unwanted work’ and discov...
6 Signed Painter Hiroshi NOMURA €21.34 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout The comic “Painter” is the sequel to 2018’s “Cameraer” by Tokyo-based photographer and painter Hiroshi Nomura. Set in a world of camera-fied beings and metaphorical characters, “Painter” explores themes such as the nature of photography versus painting and the creative process (and...
7 Amulet of the Tapir Keiichi TANAAMI €200.08 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Keiichi Tanaami’s belief in the “book as artwork” idea is once again brilliantly expressed with “Amulet of the Tapir”, a 400-page strong collection of Tanaami’s graphic art. Psychedelia-inspired styles and comic elements feature heavily in Tanaami’s artworks, with human faces – oft...
8 Psychedelic Death Pop Keiichi TANAAMI €20.01 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout “Psychedelic Death Pop” is a large-format, 40-page strong collection of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami’s recent visual works. Two large stickers form part of the book, which was published together with “Amulet of the Tapir” to accompany Tanaami’s 2017 exhibition at Nanzuka Gallery.
9 SORAYAMA Hajime SORAYAMA €66.69 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Hajime Sorayama graduated from Chubi Central Art School in 1969, and had initially spent some time working with an advertising company. Since becoming freelance in 1972, he has established his position as a legendary artist both within Japan and abroad, armed with his astounding se...
10 ASSEMBLE_Community Fantasy and Future ASSEMBLE €21.62 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Assemble is an informal collective formed in 2009 by Japanese artist Takayo Iida. This art book provides an overview of the works created by the group through photographs of their art as well as analytical essays, i.a. Ryuji Fujimura.
11 Nobuko Tsuchiya Nobuko TSUCHIYA €15.44 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Art book featuring photography of London-based Japanese artist Nobuko Tsuchiya's sculptures and installations. The book includes essays by Reiko Tsubaki, Antoine de Galbert and Melanie Bouteloup.
12 Maria Taniguchi Maria TANIGUCHI €15.21 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout This catalogue was published on occasion of the 2017 exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo. The book reproduces the brick paintings that form the foundation of Taniguchi’s work as well as exhibition space and the sculptures which are a reflection, perhaps refraction, of Taniguc...
13 Yoshitomo Nara:Self-selected Works―Paintings Yoshitomo NARA €25.34 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Yoshitomo Nara was born in1959, in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture. In 1987, he completed the master’s program at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. In1988,he taraveled to Germany and enrolled in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,where he studied and received his Meisterschüler ...
14 Fukushima mon amour Misaki KAWABE €11.67 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout FUKUSHIMA MON AMOUR is an artist book. The title paraphrases Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima mon amour", and thereby indirectly evokes associations with the great Japanese trauma of the nuclear bombing in 1945. Watercolors of fragments of toys, which seem to originate f...
15 Nostalgic Hentai Misaki KAWABE €15.01 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout "Nostalgic Hentai" is an artists book. The content is comprised by painted underwear and found images. The watercolors are opposed with found material, which appears to originate from Berlin flea-markets: German Olympia-collectibles of the 30ies, which depict Japanese ath...
16 OKUSOKU VELOCITY OF MEMORY Shinro OHTAKE Out of Stock This extensive exhibition catalogue accompanied Shinro Ohtake’s show “Okusoku” at the Takamatsu Art Museum in summer 2013. The exhibition focused on seven separate themes and series—“Distant Views of Memories,” “Afterimages: Inner Exposures,” Africa: Reverberating Memories, “Japane...
17 Signed White Album Taizo KURODA, Seitaro KURODA €200.08 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout The “White Album” represents the only published collaboration between the late ceramic artist Taizo Kuroda and his brother, the painter Seitaro Kuroda. It consists of an original painting by Seitaro Kuroda, a magazine-book featuring texts and photographs about Seitaro’s paintings o...
18 Contact High Zine Issue 4: Into the Parallel Yusuke YAMATANI, Mari KATAYAMA, Motohiko HASUI, Hideki MAKIGUCHI, RYU Ika, Yoko KUSANO, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Yoshirotten, Various Artists €93.37 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Japanese independent magazine Contact High Zine presents its fourth issue, titled “Into The Parallel.” Featuring solo and collaborative works by artists such as Yoshirotten, Mari Katayama, Hideki Machiguchi, Kota Nakazono, Ohiana, Henry Darger, Yoko Kusano, Tsutomu Ono and many mor...
19 Death Book Toshio SAEKI €48.23 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout The fourth edition of UK-based Baron Books’ “Death Book” series focuses on the work of the late Japanese artist Toshio Saeki (1945-2019). Rooted in traditional Japanese genres such as Shunga and ero-guro-nonsense, Saeki’s provocative art is characterized by combining eroticism, dea...