Bataille / Camus

Published in 2000 by Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz

danke Bettina !

designed by Kasino A4′s very own Pekka Toivonen is a good book. And this text is and euphemism.

Jeffrey has been consistently and faithfully sending me images and contributing to sang bleu since day one. I still owe Benedetta Rossi for introducing us.
A massive subject and interview with jeffrey is coming soon in the soon-to-be-launched “Online Features” section.
But before that, you might wanna have a look at http://www.jeffreykilmer.com/, or even better, buy “23%”, the book he just released.

“The Front Door photos are a summation of everything I have ever learned. The photos are taken in front of the door at 161 Essex Street, which leads into Clayton Hats, Clayton Gallery and the Outlaw Art Museum. This also happens to be the place I live.

“The front door represented two things for me: It was the Wall of Fame where I played host to many of the local graffiti writers and it was the background for many of the shots from the Hall of Fame The period represented is from 1985 to 2002. The vast majority of the photographs were of Hispanics who lived on the Lower East Side. The L.E.S. in the ’80s and into the ’90s was not the hip place it is today. For the most part, the photos were representative of people who lived in the section that outsiders considered dangerous and that was normally out of bounds for those who had no business being there.” Clayton Patterson

this book is beautiful
and the artist is good
it was given to me by someone i dearly love (who is good and beautiful)

ISBN: 978-3-905829-84-6
Softcover, 220 x 260 mm

publisher: JRP Ringier

I bought this book on the occasion of an un-deliberate visit to the aforementioned artist’s personal exhibition at the Migros Museum, last year. In spite of the inconsistent quality of the works themselves, the exhibition as such showed a subtle balance between classic and contemporary references and shapes, with some frontal but also interesting references to fetish and SM. Definitely highlight of my 2008 art-scape.

The book is worth checking, if you don’t have the opportunity to attend to an actual show, and even if you do.

publisher: JRP Ringier
ISBN: 978-3-905829-22-8
Hardcover, 195 x 240 mm