1 SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue Various Artists $29.06 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 Maria Taniguchi Maria TANIGUCHI $16.57 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...
3 Fukushima mon amour Misaki KAWABE $12.72 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...
4 Nostalgic Hentai Misaki KAWABE $16.35 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...
5 New Photographic Objects Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO $50.86 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...
6 Signed White Album Taizo KURODA, Seitaro KURODA $217.99 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...
7 Signed, Rare Chan Wai Kwong's Special Box CHAN Wai-Kwong $330.27 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...
8 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 $101.73 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...
9 The Beginning Place Yoshitomo NARA $25.43 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...