Six artists were asked to respond to a selection of texts, published in a separate book: Andre Lemos, Dimitris Baboulis, Ilan Manouach, Tommi Musturi, Pascal Matthey and Alberto.
96 pages | hardcover edition K | 240mm x 220mm | 2008 | 15 euros
Les opérations de modification géologique consistent à rassembler et brûler le plus grand nombre possible d’arbres et d’arbrisseaux, en utilisant à cette fin toutes les ressources technologiques disponibles. Des listesdétaillées où figuraient les espèces ligneuses orestières, ainsi que leurs index semina, étaient maintenues à jour par une machinerie puissante. L’historique de ces opérations était soigneusement conservé.
62 pages | hardcover edition K | 170mm x 240mm | 2008 | 8 euros
Variations on the Angel of History, a Walter Benjamin’s essay, inspired by Angelus Novus, a Paul Klee’s sketch, the full title. Pedro Moura (texts), Ilan Manouach (illustrations).
This book, a bilingual edition (French-Portuguese) is a co production between La Cinquième Couche and Montesinos publishers. Pedro Moura with his apocalyptic dantesque writing draws a meticulously rough sketch of the angel pantheon. With his illustrations, Ilan Manouach tried to represent the fading proportions of these ruins.
112 pages ｜hardcover edition K ｜340mm x 240mm｜2008｜15 euros
This is a commission for the Sismics Comics Festival in Switzerland. Both Sides of a Wall is a newspaper edition consisting of an abstract, non-sequitur narration accompanied by a now defunct sound score.
24 pages ｜newspaper
tabloid｜2011｜
Out of print
Frédéric Magazine 4 or Vitrines is a catalogue entirely dedicated to contemporary drawing practices. Its five founding artists members, (Boinot, Fleury, Pidoux, Poincelet, Prigent) have invited thirty artists from various backgrounds and nationalities to present their series of works.
The Frédéric Magazine project has the goal to establish a dialogue between different contributions, whether they are web art, visual art or publishing. This new anthology is inscribed as the natural continuity of the installation “Les Territoires de l’Art Modeste” in the International Museum of Modest Arts of Sète (MIAM). Contributors, among others are Hervé Di Rosa, Andy Bolus, Mélina Forthias, Apollo Thomas, Christian Aubrun, Donato Di nunno, Isabelle Boinot, Paul Bonnet, Frédéric Poincelet, Frédéric Fleury, Antoine Marquis, Jérémie Grandsenne, Jérémy et Ludovic Boulard Lefur, Mehdi Hercberg, Yu Matsuoka Pol, Stéphane Prigent, Jonas Delaborde.
288 pages | Paperback CMYK | 190mm x 250mm | 2011 | SOLD OUT
A 16-page comic story commissioned from Multitudes, the trimonthly political magazine from France, accompanied with an interview to Thomas Boivin.
K ｜170mm x 240mm｜2009｜SOLD OUT
This the catalogue for the 2006 Quinzaine de Bande Dessinée collecting the works from a large number of comics artists directed by Xavier Lowenthal and myself. From the participation call, one can feel a glimpse towards a conceptual approach to comics. Thierry Groensteen decribes the anthology as following: Le Coup de Grace [The Death Blow], a collective work published in Brussels in 2006 by la Cinquieme Couche, includes the following proclamation: “We long for startling transitions, improbable links, new kinds of narrative associations. We find conventional narrative functions boring and stifling.” On the publisher’s website the ambition that inspires the authors is described in ore detail: they aim to invent “new proposals for narrative articulation” between the images. These transitions will not be “functional” but will operate on a poetic, visual, and formal level through likeness of metaphor…” Because meaning is not a matter of cause and effect leading up to narrative resolution. Because meaning does not lie in clarification.” These words summarize, in exemplary fashion, the historical situation as experienced by many young artists today. This conjuncture has produced heightened awareness that comic art is not ontologically destined only to perpetuate a canonical model dominated by the categories of narration and legibility, but that its spatio-topical apparatus for the display of images- lend themselves to the exploration of new forms, new configurations, new ambitions.
144 pages ｜paperback CMYK ｜335mm x 240mm｜2006｜SOLD OUT
An international illustration anthology curated by Marcos Margarida Borges, Marcos Farrajota, Jucifer and Ricardo Martins. Participants among others: Anna Ehrlemark, André Lemos, Craig Atkinson, Stephane Prigent, João Maio Pinto, Tommi Musturi, Warren Craghead III, Massimiliano Bomba, Pedro Franz, Filipe Abranches, Jucifer. Visit the publisher’s website.
104 pages | Paperback K | 170mm x 240mm | 2011 | SOLD OUT
Mammoth!
Artists: Jan Anderzén (FIN), Benjamin Bergman (FIN), Andrea Bruno (ITA), Lilli Carré (USA), Mark Delong (CAN), The Doozers (FIN), Roope Eronen (FIN), Christopher Forgues (USA), Jyrki Heikkinen (FIN), Kwon Yong-Deuk (KOR), Lamelos (NED), Lee Jung-Hyoun (KOR), Bendik Kaltenborn (NOR), Reijo Kärkkäinen (FIN), André Lemos (POR), Jason Mclean (CAN), Ilan Manouach (GRE), Hanneriina Moisseinen (FIN), Tommi Musturi (FIN), Anders Nilsen (USA), Florent Ruppert & Jérôme Mulot (FRA), Aapo Rapi (FIN), Anna Sailamaa (FIN), Olivier Schrauwen (BEL), Michelangelo Setola (ITA), Katri Sipiläinen (FIN), Rui Tenreiro (NOR), Janne Tervamäki (FIN) and Amanda Vähämäki (FIN).
308 pages ｜paperback
CMYK ｜167mm x 240mm｜2007｜SOLD OUT