World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1996, Japanese
Softcover, 30 bound postcards, 15.5 x 11.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Little More / Tokyo
$500.00 - In stock -
Very rare early book of portraits of Tokyo teenagers by leading Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (b. 1962 in Tokyo, Japan). This special publication features around 30 selected photographs of Homma's iconic and very influential early 1990's photography bound into one volume in the form of thick perforated postcards. These images of Tokyo teens, along with images of their bedrooms and Shibuya / Harajuku street surrounds, are emblematic of Homma's work of the period, known in the West through Purple magazine, etc. Following in the spirit of Provoke photographers such as Araki, Moriyama, and Nakahira, Homma created a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century. Homma's photography would become a great influence on the fashionable 1990's girly photo boom of Hiromix and Yurie Nagashima, etc.
Fine—As New copy, all postcards still bound, vinyl cover sticker still attached as issued.
1998, English / French
Softcover, 380 pages, 15.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$390.00 - In stock -
Very rare copy of the first issue of Purple. Edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, with Jeff Rian, this wonderful issue features work and words by: Maison Martin Margiela, Zoe Leonard, Mark Borthwick, Jutta Koether, Lee Ranaldo, Dike Blair, Thurston Moore, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mitchell Algus, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Maurizio Cattalan, David Robbins, Antek Walzcak, Karl Holmqvist, Calvin Klein, Takashi Homma, Veronique Branquinho, Laetitia Benat, Jeff Rian, Y's, Anders Edstrom, Tobjorn Rodland, Doug Aitken, Comme des Garcons, Nathaniel Goldberg, Helmut Lang, Susan Cianciolo, Terry Richardson, Takashi Noguchi, Camille Vivier, Katja Rahlwes, Junya Watanabe, Hussein Chalayan, Kostas Murkudis, Viviane Sassen, and many many more....
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple.
Very Good copy, some light edge/cover wear, single spine crease, binding still great.
2001, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 27 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$240.00 - In stock -
A very rare copy of the eighth issue of Purple, edited by Olivier Zahm, art directed by Makoto Ohru, featuring Chiara Mastroianni on the cover. One of the best issues, featuring Mark Borthwick, Roe thridge, Richard Kern, Katja Rahlwes, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chloë Sevigny, Henry Roy, Colin de Land, Bruce Benderson, Anders Edström, Jutta Koether, Kate Moss, Maison Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Gordon, Antek Walczak, Hermés, Masafumi Sanai, Dike Blair, Comme des Garçons, Balenciaga, Nakako Hayashi, Jeff Rian, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Bob Nickas, Ann Demeuelemeester, Claude Closky, Kyoji Takahashi, Michael Smith, Matt Sweeney, John Kelsey, Helmut Lang, Bennett Simpson, Gareth James, Miu Miu, Vanina Sorrenti, Cedrick Eymenier, Andreas Larsson, Mark Kingwell, Bernard Joisten, Laetitia Benat, Anaïd Demir, Costume National, Michel Sumpf, Alex Antitch, Giasco Bertoli, Jeremy Blake, Ola Rindal, and many more....
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy.
2002, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 96 pages, 17 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Books / Paris
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$200.00 - Out of stock
First and only edition of Purple Stars, a collection of portraits and fashion photographs of the stars of Purple magazine during those early definitive years of 90's anti-fashion and the establishment of one of the most important fashion magazines of our generation. Edited by Makoto Ohrui, Elein Fleiss and Oliver Zahm and published in Japan in 2002 by Purple Books & Fiction Inc, Purple Stars features the photography of Mark Borthwick, Juergen Teller, Camille Vivier, Wolfgang Tillmans, Laetitia Benat, Anders Edström, Takashi Homma, Jack Pierson, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Richard Prince, Giasco Bertoli, Alex Antitch, Patterson Beckwith, Terry Richardson, Henry Roy, Vanina Sorrenti, Chikashi Suzuki, Mauricio Guillen, Marcelo Krasilcic, Serge Leblon, Armin Linke... with photographs of Hélène Fillières, Catherine Deneuve, Jutta Koether, Lou Doillon, Kim Gordon, Harmony Korine, Alex Bag, Kate Moss, Rita Ackermann, Colin de Land, Chloë Sevigny, Brad Pitt, Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Camille Vivier, Cerith Wyn Evens, Yoshimi, Yukinori Maeda, Alexandra Bircken, Lizzie Bougatsos, Maurizio Cattelan, Susan Cianciolo, Elein Fleiss, Marieke Stolk, and many more.
A now very scarce compendium of some of the most iconic photographic images direct from the early pages of Purple.
Very Good copy, lacking glassine dust wrapper.
2024, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 31 x 23 cm
Published by
Bill / Brussels
$92.00 - In stock -
‘Bill’ is annual magazine that prioritises visual reading of its photographic stories without the distraction of text. This issue contains 192 offset pages printed in CMYK, silver, and black and white on a dozen different paper stocks, along with some Japanese bound signatures. Designed, edited, and produced by Julie Peeters and associate editor Elena Narbutaite.
Sand, wind, tide, bills, tulips, LA, parking lots, waves, thoughts, bagels, prints, Tokyo, orchids, horses, backs, balm, magazines, updates, shadows, Elena's shoe, two mudbaths and a garage door...
by Boyle Family, Jochen Lempert, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Gillian Garcia, Beat Streuli, Takashi Homma, JP, Adrianna Glaviano, Mimosa Echard, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gerald Domenig, Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, Martiniano, Blommers Schumm
1998, English / Japanese
Softcover, 128 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Little More / Tokyo
$200.00 - Out of stock
Controversial inaugural (December 1998) issue of Richardson magazine, the short-lived cult 1990's art/sex magazine published by Little More in Japan, edited by Andrew Richardson (of Richardson label, fashion stylist w. Supreme, CK, Valentino, etc.) and art direction by Laura Genninger of STUDIO 191 (designer of AnOther Magazine, etc.). Navigating the murky boundaries between art and obscenity, an honourable pursuit in Japan, this first issue features the double-cover (censored and non-censored) of adult film star Jenna Jameson shot by Glen Luchford, along with J.J. photo feature and interview, Richard Prince’s “Spiritual America” text and photography/artworks inc. the infamous 11-year-old Brooke Shields piece, "Be Broken" erotic artwork gallery by Harmony Korine, "Love Letter to Amerika" from Takashi Homma, Terry Richardson photography, "Cunt" fiction by Stewart Home, photos by French cinematographer (Gummo, Ulysse, Boy Meets Girl, etc.) Jean-Yves Escoffier, Japanese V-Cinema and pink star Nao Saejima, Stewart Home on Cosey Fanni Tutti, many works of photography and text by American photojournalist and writer Erika Langley, erotic photography by skater Ed Templeton of photographer and wife Deanna Templeton, vintage erotica collection by photographer Bela Borsodi, poetry and more! Riddled with bans and confiscations due to explicit un-censored imagery by Japanese censorship standards.
Texts in both English and Japanese.
Very Good copy.
2004, English / French
Softcover (staple-bound), 21 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$190.00 - In stock -
Rare copy of the first issue of The Purple Journal, featuring Elein Fleiss, Jeffrey Rian, Dorothée Perret, Mark Borthwick, Gérard Duguet-Grasser, Laetitia Benat, Marina Faust, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Cianciolo, Henry Roy, Lizzi Bougatsos, Anders Edström, Maurizio Cattelan, Takashi Homma, Michel Zumpf, Chikashi Suzuki, Barbet Schroeder, Alain Lacroix, Jonathan Boulting, Maison Martin Margiela, Cora Maghnaoui, Claude Lévêque, Beth Yahp, Cosmic Wonder, Angela Hill, Ferdinand Gouzon, Comme des Garçons, Curtis Winter, Beth Yahp, Ferdinand Gouzon, Curtis Winter, Manon de Boer, Christophe Brunnquell, Sébastien Jamain, Tiphaine Samoyault, Helmut Lang, Veronique Branquinho, Sébastien Jamain, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sharon Mesmer, Gérard Duguet-Grasser, and much more. Includes the special Paris supplement (16 pages).
"This is our first issue: joy, hope. Starting out or beginning again (the journal Hélène and the magazine Purple)-anyway, it's a first appearance. A path we'll travel together, we, the editors, and you, the readers. We will show reality as we see it through encounters with people, places, landscapes, artworks. Writing and photographs, original voices. The journey is not mapped out in advance, we'll discover it (as it reveals itself) with the changing seasons."—the editors
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.
Very Good copy, light wear/age/rippling to page edges.
1999, English / Japanese
Softcover, unpaginated, 11.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Little More / Tokyo
$150.00 - Out of stock
Wonderful pocket journal photo book published in 1999 by Tokyo's Little More books, documenting the 1998 and 1999 Paris fashion weeks through the travels and relationships of Nakako Hayashi, artist and editor of the great Here and There journal and fashion and art contributor to Purple, Hanatsubaki, Ryu-ko-tsu-shin, and more. Naturally, this publication has all the feeling of Here and There and early issues of Purple, and includes many of the key contributors to those magazines — all friends of Hayashi's, plus documentation of the long lost galleries and hot-spots of Paris, London, and Japan — Colette, Purple Institute, The Pineal Eye, The Deep Gallery, Purple Cafe... An excellent time-capsule of 1990's anti-fashion world at its peak. Includes a sticker sheet of Susan Cianciolo's Run7 collection!
Contributions and documentation of work by Susan Cianciolo, Mark Borthwick, BLESS, Elein Fleiss, Comme des Garçons, Maison Martin Margiela, A.F. Vandevorst, Veronique Branquinho, Jerome Dreyfuss, Gaspard Yurkievich, Junya Watanabe, Martine Sitbon, Colette, Purple, Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Olivier Theyskens, Andre Walker, Jeremy Scott, Niels Klavers, Dick Page, and more.
Texts in English and Japanese.
Very Good copy.
1998, English
Softcover, 464 pages, 15.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$190.00 - Out of stock
PURPLE magazine ("Fashion, Prose, Special, Fiction, Interior") Number 2, Winter 1998-1999. A rare copy of this early edition of Purple, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early issue features work by: Mark Borthwick, Alex Bag, Tobjorn Rodland, Antek Walzcak, Andrea Zittel, Martin Margiela, Bernadette Corporation, Laetitia Benat, Susan Cianciolo, Doug Aitken, Maurizio Cattelan, Karl Holmqvist, Arto Lindsay, Dora Garcia, Phillipe Parreno, Takashi Noguchi, Viktor & Rolf, Bernadette Van-Huy, Richard Prince, Banu Cennetoglu, Comme des Garcons, Rita Ackermann, Katja Rahlwes, Terry Richardson, Nathaniel Goldberg, Annette Messager, Helmut Lang, Colin De Land, Dan Graham, Marcelo Krasilcic, Takashi Homma, and many many more.
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good—Neear Fine copy.
1996, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 22.5 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Art Days / Tokyo
$200.00 - Out of stock
Special Summer 1996 10th issue of DUNE, featuring the iconic Chloë Sevigny cover styled by Andrew Richardson and shot by Terry Richardson. Rare and most sought-after issue of this Japanese fashion and culture magazine, edited by the legendary Fumihiro Hayashi, with the theme of "REALITY", encapsulating the "realism" of 1990's new fashion photography and anti-fashion aesthetic, including a huge photo feature of Chloë by Richardson, Hysteric Glamor shot by David Sorrenti, Prada does Palm Springs by Takashi Homma, Baby Generation by Takashi Homma, featuring Sofia Coppola, Kim Gordon, Ione Skye, Tamra Davis and Karen Klimnik, Walter Van Beirendonck, photography by Sofia Coppola, Shingo Wakagi, Katsumi Omori, Masashi Sanai, Fujio Saimon, Gregory Crewdson, Masashi Ohashi, plus Visionaire, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hunter S. Thompson, ads for X-Girl, Milk Fed, Paul Smith... a rare (even in Japan) time capsule and distant memory of the Genki days of the bookshop building.
Very Good copy.
1999, English
Softcover, 494 pages, 15.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$150.00 - Out of stock
PURPLE magazine ("Fashion, Prose, Special, Fiction, Interior") Number 4, Winter 1999-2000.
A rare copy of this early edition of Purple, edited by Elein Fleiss, this wonderful early issue that features work by: Mark Borthwick, Juergen Teller, Jutta Koether, Jack Pierson, Tobjorn Rodland, A.F. Vandervorst, Ann-Sofie Back, Takashi Homma, Anders Edstrom, Balenciaga, Hussein Chalayan, Susan Cianciolo, Comme des Garcons, Fabrics Interseason, Martin Margiela, Kim Gordon, Doug Aitken, Junya Watanabe, Hermés, Bernard Willhelm, Helmut Lang, Leah Singer, Louis Vuitton, Lewis Baltz, Liz Bougatsos, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Antek Walzcak, Harmony Korine, Mark Gonzales, Terry Richardson, Giasco Bertoli, and many many more....
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.
2000, Japanese
Softcover, 400 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$30.00 - Out of stock
May 2000 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more.
This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Yosuke Onishi, Masayuki Yoshinaga, Hiromi Saotome, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kinichi Tanaka, Tetsuo Amano, Hiromi Hiraguchi, New York SM clubs, Shima Shikou, Kenji Nakano, Katsumi Oka, Wakao Takahashi, Masaaki Toyoura, Japan SM clubs, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
1998, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
January 1998 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Ken-ichi Murata, Masami Akita, Toyoura Masaaki, Aki Tanaka, Koji Nakano, Junko Takahashi, Tetsuo Amano, Domu Kitahara, Mayumi Oda, Gaijin Tokuno, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
2022, English
Hardcover, 544 pages, 24 x 33 cm
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$89.00 - Out of stock
Purple celebrates its 30th anniversary and for this issue interweaves new editorial content with facsimiles of pages from past issues to show how different moments in time resonate and connect to each other. This issue tells the story of 30 years devoted to artists, designers, photographers, writers, cities and other facets that define the Purple World - such as night, philosophy, diversity, avant-garde, sex and politics. Throughout 30 parts full of photography, fashion, cool kids and nostalgia, the 30YRS issue features Elein Fleiss, Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Richard Prince, Bernadette Corporation, Wolfgang Tillmans, Comme Des Garçons, Rita Ackermann, Kenneth Anger, Olivier Zahm, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Abel Ferrara, Maurizio Cattelan, Dash Snow, Arthur Jafa, Glenn O'brien, Harmony Korine, Juergen Teller, David Lynch, Susan Cianciolo, Kim Gordon, Terry Richardson, Chikashi Suzuki, Katja Rahlwes, Henrik Purienne, Marlene Dumas, Rick Owens, and many many more. Accompanied by a special Urs Fischer Purple Book.
Purple magazine issue #38 features 29 different photographic covers. Unfortunately it is not possible to buy a specific cover.
2003, Japanese
Softcover, 29.4 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
relax / Tokyo
$35.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
June 2003 issue of 'Relax' magazine's "Relax For Girls" from Tokyo, the fourth issue, featuring cover feature on Eley Kishimoto fashion label, Takashi Homma, Jane Birkin, Cosmic Wonder, Milton Nascimento discography, music for all weather, Kate Gibb, cartoonist Saho Tono, surf fashion, a huge article on Melbourne lead by PAM (Misha Hollenbach and Shauna Toohey), photographs by Gen Kay, Female graffiti artists (Lady Pink, Claw, Miss 17, Fafi, ESA, SASU, etc.), Disney x Relax, and much more.
Before the term Hype Beast existed there was Relax magazine, a trailblazing Japanese style magazine that primarily ran throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. It embodied and informed everything "Shibuya", in more interesting times. Times of X-Large, Alife, Beams, United Arrows, Girl Skateboards, and MoWax. But alongside the latest from Bape, Lego or Sofia Coppola one might also find in-depth articles on anything from concrete poetry, steel drumming, teashops, zen music or dogparks. Globetrotting, unearthing, scene-reporting and profiling on an exhaustive monthly basis, Relax quickly became an important reference source for trends in graphic design, urban fashion, music, and lifestyle, both in and out of Japan.
Very Good copy, light cover wear.
2004, Japanese
Softcover, 29.4 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
relax / Tokyo
$25.00 $10.00 - Out of stock
June 2004 issue of 'Relax' magazine from Tokyo, featuring photos by Takashi Homma, huge feature on Lover's Rock with interview/feature/discogs of Dennis Bovell and Mad Professor, etc., record shops, Mike Mills, history of beach sandals, music festivals, travelogues, photography, music, artwork by James Jarvis, and much more.
Before the term Hype Beast existed there was Relax magazine, a trailblazing Japanese style magazine that primarily ran throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. It embodied and informed everything "Shibuya", in more interesting times. Times of X-Large, Alife, Beams, United Arrows, Girl Skateboards, and MoWax. But alongside the latest from Bape, Lego or Sofia Coppola one might also find in-depth articles on anything from concrete poetry, steel drumming, teashops, zen music or dogparks. Globetrotting, unearthing, scene-reporting and profiling on an exhaustive monthly basis, Relax quickly became an important reference source for trends in graphic design, urban fashion, music, and lifestyle, both in and out of Japan.
Good copy, light cover wear.
2020, English / Japanese
Hardcover, 116 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / Tokyo
$90.00 - Out of stock
Lovely hardcover catalogue published in Japan to accompany the 2020 exhibition 'Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s' at The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, an exhibition exploring the relationship between photography and fashion from the 1990s onward, supervised by Nakako Hayashi. Born in 1966, Hayashi worked for Hanatsubaki, the culture magazine published by Shiseido, before becoming a freelance editor writing fashion and art articles for Ryu-ko-tsu-shin, Purple and other magazines, and publishing her cult journal Here and There. Through works of artists Anders Edström, Kyoji Takashi, Elein Fleiss, Yukinori Maeda, PUGMENT, Takashi Homma, the exhibition attempts to explore the relationship between photography and fashion. It displays, in addition to photographs, rare fashion magazines that became major turning points in their time and is accompanied by related events, for an engaging look at photography and fashion from many angles.
New copy.
2020, English / Japanese / French
Paperback, 192 pages, 22 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Koenig Books / London
$110.00 - Out of stock
Takashi Homma first encountered the work of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh, India in 2013, while producing photographs commissioned by the CCA. Following that experience, he decided to research and photograph the spatial and perceptual richness of windows in other works by Le Corbusier across the world. His research is part of the Windowology program initiated by the Window Research Institute, which aims to define the position of windows in the history of architecture across cultures—in this particular case, their role as spaces, rather than surfaces, that connect the interior of a building and the surrounding landscape, or the private and the public.
An essay by Tim Benton complements Homma’s photographs by tracing the evolution of the concept of windows in Le Corbusier’s work.
English, French and Japanese text.
2019, English
Softcover (w. die-cut jacket), 66 pages, 22 x 31.5 cm
Published by
MACK / London
$100.00 - In stock -
"An inexorable short circuit of beauty and violence" – Mousse Magazine
Out-of-print.
In this dark and beautiful book, Takashi Homma traces the blood trails of deer killed in Shiretoko National Park on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Like ritualistic stains or calligraphic compositions, the photographs, which Homma made in the winters of 2009 to 2018, are at once abstract and symbolic. Considered by some to be sacred, deer in Japan have controversially faced culls due to their growing population, which upset agricultural communities struggling to protect their crops. To aid their mission in reducing numbers, the government encourages local hunters to take matters into their own hands. Homma photographs the effects – the red vestiges of wild life in the snow.
2006, English / Japanese
Softcover, 40 Pages 21 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Here and There / Japan
Nieves / Zurich
$45.00 - Out of stock
Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anne Daems, Susan Cianciolo, Els Beusen, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimi, Yayako Uchida, Takako Minekawa, Yurie Nagashima, Bless, Kazunari Hattori
Here and There comes back, after two years of absence from the independent magazine scene, with Unexpected Travelling Issue, a sixth issue which counts already familiar but also new illustrious collaborations.
In Nakako’s own words, the vision behind the Unexpected Travelling Issue was: "One day, someone told me her ideal garden is what looks like no one is taking care of, and have so many different pretty flowers in springtime. The other day my friend told me she has an ideal image of bringing up kids even though in reality she has to deal with daily life living in crowded Tokyo. I am into those stories, and new issue must be something related to this 'ideal' world. in each people's minds. Maybe you can talk about ideal books making"
With the sixth issue, Here and There consolidates its long-standing partnership with Nieves, which from now on will be publishing and distributing the magazine internationally.
As Elein Fleiss once said, Here and There is the magazine of one person. The fact that Nakako's name is credited as the author on the cover is not an egocentric statement but reveals the spirit in which she makes it. Some people make films, others write books or make artworks, and Nakako makes a magazine. It is her personal work and in that sense she makes it in her own way, unlike most magazines on the planet. It also means she is free from capitalistic rules, from imposed trends, from the industry of fashion. Instead, she is free to follow her desire and to link the magazine with her personal life.
Nakako Hayashi was born in 1966. She became a freelance editor from 2001, after working for Hanatsubaki, the culture magazine published by Shiseido. She has been writing fashion and art articles for Ryu-ko-tsu-shin and other magazines. Her books include Baby Generation and Paris Collection Individuals (both by Little More)
Art Director Kazunari Hattori.
2007, English / Japanese
Softcover, 64 Pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Nieves / Zurich
Here and There / Japan
$45.00 - Out of stock
Susan Cianciolo, Pascale Gatzen, Mark Borthwick, Kenneth Andrew Mroczek, Ruthie Doyle, Julian Gatto, Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Anne Daems, Mike Mills, Kim Gordon, Elein Fleiss, Kenshu Shintsubo, Jeff Burch, Kasane Nagawa and Benjamin Sommerhalder
Here and There Vol.7 is dedicated to the cities of Paris and Tokyo, looking at them through the eyes of its wide contributors’ family spread around the world. We are taken into a whirlwind of overlapping stories and emotions, through the words and images of Takashi Homma, Elein Fleiss, Susan Cianciolo, Julian Gatto, Kim Gordon, Mike Mills, Benjamin Sommerhalder and most importantly Nakako Hayashi, the mind behind it all.
This issue is also filled with a few extra special interviews to Pascale Gatzen, Susan Cianciolo, Yukinori Maeda and texts by Jeff Burch, all adding up to 64 truly inspirational pages.
Art Director Kazunari Hattori.
2002, Japanese
Softcover, 29.4 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
relax / Tokyo
$25.00 $15.00 - Out of stock
August 2002 issue of 'Relax' magazine from Tokyo, with cover artwork by manga artists Fujiko Fujio (Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.) This issue features a photo report of Hawaii by Takashi Homma, Hawaiian records, a huge feature on Fujiko Fujio with many drawings, character developments, studio and office behind-the-scenes, illustrated history of published comics, products, fold-out poster, and much more, Wes Anderson, artwork by Mark Gonzalez, and much more.
Before the term Hype Beast existed there was Relax magazine, a trailblazing Japanese style magazine that primarily ran throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. It embodied and informed everything "Shibuya", in more interesting times. Times of X-Large, Alife, Beams, United Arrows, Girl Skateboards, and MoWax. But alongside the latest from Bape, Lego or Sofia Coppola one might also find in-depth articles on anything from concrete poetry, steel drumming, teashops, zen music or dogparks. Globetrotting, unearthing, scene-reporting and profiling on an exhaustive monthly basis, Relax quickly became an important reference source for trends in graphic design, urban fashion, music, and lifestyle, both in and out of Japan.
Very Good - fine copy w/ inserted poster.
2010, French
Softcover, 296 pages, 19.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$80.00 - Out of stock
Rare copy of the first and only issue of "Les Cahiers Purple".
As the extension of Purple Journal, and the diversion away from Purple Fashion, "Les Cahiers Purple" has the subtlety, sophistication and poetry expected from editor-in-chief Elein Fleiss. Through a diary-like feel, the publication captured the world through the lenses and words of a diverse array of collaborators and contributors from the worlds of fashion, photography, art, literature, poetry, design and much more.
Contributors included: Judith Affolter, Leonor Antunes, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Arnold Barkus, Laetitia Benat, Amit Berlowitz, Guillaume Besnier, Dike Blair, BLESS, Marcel Cohen, Sonia Collins, Cosmic Wonder Light Source, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Tacida Dean, Gérard Duguet-Grasser, Pablo Durán, Anders Edström, Laura Erber, Fabrics Interseason, Oscar Faria, Mark Fishman, Elein Fleiss, Anne Frémy, Danièle Gibrat, Aki Goto, Pablo Guerra, Yannick Haenel, Nakako Hayashi, Michiko Hayashi, Takashi Homma, Kyotaro, Béatrice Leca, Yukari Miyagi, Valérie Mréjen, Raphaël Nadjari, Federico Nicolao, Paulo Nozolino, Gaëlle Obiégly, Jeff Rian, Daniel Riera, Dieter Roelstraete, Tatiana Roque, Henry Roy, Stephen Sprott, Yuriika Suzuki, Sergio Taborda, Itai Tamir, Guillermo Ueno, Antek Walzcak, Szymon Zaleski, Zucca, and more.
contents:
Cahier 01 Marcel Cohen, 10 textes
Cahier 02 Vivre au Japon
Cahier 03 France
Cahier 04 Esprits
Cahier 05 Comunal Argea
Cahier 06 Lisboa
Cahier 07 Caractères
Cahier 08 Vêtements d'hiver
Cahier 09 New York Now and Then
Cahier 10 Buenos Aires, les personnes préférées de Guillermo Ueno
Cahier 11 Idoles
Cahier 12 Aventures
Cahier 13 Szymon Zaleski, La tragédie sémite
Cahier 14 Rio de Janeiro
Cahier 15 Créatures
2014, English
Envelope containing loose-leaf photographs, menu and publication, 20 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
Cosmic Wonder Press / Tokyo
$45.00 $25.00 - Out of stock
"COSMIC WONDER RESTAURANT"
Please come and visit us for lunch.
Let's exchange gifts.
Flowers, stones, letters, cookies…
Whatever you choose to bring, we'll have some lunch for you.
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publication to accompany "COSMIC WONDER RESTAURANT".
photography by Takashi Homma
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People visit the restaurant with gifts to exchange for lunch and a performance.
Upon arrival, visitors are given exchange tickets in the form of oil paintings, mirrors, and vases, and are then guided to their seats.
Each ticket is a signal for a particular performance to begin, ranging from music, dance, singing and poetry.
In the tranquil environment of the community garden, these serene performances emerge and recede and overlap one another.
All of the performances are inspired by the idea of a gift economy.
The restaurant serves plates of wild greens and vegetables grown with permaculture methods, as well as vibrational mountain water from "Kifune", Kyoto and "Okatorano" flower essence water.
This garden restaurant is a means of guiding the visitor's mind into a meditative space.
We might be able to catch the moment where a new and free-floating expressivity emerges through the multidimensional exchanges and movements.
ART DIRECTION : COSMIC WONDER
LINE OF CLOTHES : COSMIC WONDER Light Source | The Solar Garden COSMIC WONDER
ART FOOD : Aki Goto, Yuki Kato
PERFORMERS : Adam Kell, Claire Linn, Dora Johannsdottir, Kentaro Takashina,
Lynne Brown, Masha Pruss, Nezam Ardalan, Stephen Sprott,
Thuridur Ros Sigurthorsdottir, Evan Guyton, Gisela Fulla,
Munenori Hinoki, Kigi Hinoki, Yukinori Maeda
VOCAL IMPROVISERS : Kyoko Kitamura, Anne Rhodes
VIOLIN : Mari Yamamoto, Hayne Kim
VIOLA : Sarah Hainess, Midori Witkoski
CELLO : Kim Vogels
CONTRABASS : Carl Testa, Pablo Menares, Patrick Swoboda
FLUTE | PICCOLO : Allison Linker
MUSIC DIRECTION : Jue and Anoa (Yukinori Maeda, Mayumi Tanaka)
DANCE : Dani Brown, Connor Voss
CHOREOGRAPHY : Dani Brown
VIDEO RECORDING : Les Contes (Fumitaka Kato, Ai Nakagawa)
HAIR MAKE : Mari Kikuchi, Ayami Yamada, Kotarou Suzuki, Akio Kimura, Megumi Kashimura, Minako Kiuchi
PRODUCTION : COSMIC WONDER, Yasuyo Hibino (fish co), Stephen Sprott
Since its debut Paris collection in 2000 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris Fashion Week has been the principal forum for presenting the works of COSMIC WONDER. From now on, however, COSMIC WONDER is ever widening its focus to further its exploration of installation and performance in venues around the world. Their projects later this year include an art book, ''Hidden Path of Light COSMIC WONDER," published by Nieves, and in October, a new installation and performance to be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo.
COSMIC WONDER Light Source Starting this year, COSMIC WONDER Light Source is on exhibit for Paris Fashion Week and at the same time it has become the sole fashion project of COSMIC WONDER. The collection is introduced to encourage people to wear these clothes in their daily life, so that they may delight in discovering anew the spirit within them.Yukinori Maeda After studying architecture, Maeda started his creative activities as COSMIC WONDER. In recent years, he has been actively creating and exhibiting his personal artistic works in parallel with his achievements as COSMIC WONDER. For 2007, Maeda has confirmed his participation in the coming traveling exhibition starting in Poland. Also confirmed is an exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and here he will attempt to president two separate creative endeavors as COSMIC WONDER and artist Yukinori Maeda, in one exhibition