“We spent our vacation together, my friend Aymeric and me. The summer started with getting fantastically drunk in a Berlin park and ended in the French Landes, our hands full of precious ashes. There were lots of rivers and so many friends. We sang at the top of our lungs in the yellow car and learned to play spelling-mistakes-scrabble. It was a really beautiful summer. Thank you Cha.”
Hendrik Hegray (Limoges, France 1981) works and lives in Paris. His influences are cartoons, 90's video-games, abstract pictures, Eye's Boredoms covers and 80's horror movies. He has published self-made zines for the last ten years (Super Kasher, Télérama, etc.), has worked with publishers like FLTMSTPC (Frédéric Magazine) and Nieves, and collaborated with artists like Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture), Mehdi Hercberg (Shoboshobo) Kerozen, Jelle Crama and Dennis Tyfus. Hegray co-runs the graphic zine Nazi-Knife with Jonas Delaborde since 2006 and plays in differents musical projects like Helicoptère Sanglante or the free-noise band Minitel with members of Sister Iodine.
Published on the Occasion of the Exhibition Nieves Library
at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. May 17th – September 28th, 2008
Ragnar Persson is a Swedish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1980. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gallery Steinsland Berliner have featured Ragnar Persson's work in the past.Ragnar Persson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 198 USD to 2,652 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2019 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,652 USD for Untitled, sold at Bukowskis, Stockholm in 2022.
The delicate romanticism of Arisa Odawara’s illustrations in ink conjure hazy phantom-memories of a budding love, in all its youthful earnestness. At times mischievous, such as the two young girls plotting to overturn and capture an unassuming boy on a rock, My Drawings is a sensitively rendered collection of intimate scenes and imagery from a Tokyo suburb during Springtime. Odawara’s zine holds a selection of twenty-four tender tableaus out of the artist’s over 2000 drawings of the last ten years.
This series of surreal tableaus from artist Karoline Schreiber is a potent odyssey through a subconscious populated with psychically strung-out women with arms for breasts, amorphous balls of sentient spaghetti (or are they raisins?), and masturbatory tree trunks, among other absurdist motifs. Rendered in the smooth grey-scale tonalities of graphite, Schreiber’s illustrations exist in their own dream plane where it makes sense that nothing makes sense.
Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian†and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet.
