The Swimmers, Jorge Perez Ortiz
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This book is a meditation on resilience, recovery and the elemental power of water. Born from an accident that profoundly marked the artist and forced him to confront the fragility of the body, the series transforms swimming into a poetic exploration of healing, discipline, and the quiet
endurance of body and mind.
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The Swimmers, Jorge Perez Ortiz
PRE ORDER NOW (link in bio)
This book is a meditation on resilience, recovery and the elemental power of water. Born from an accident that profoundly marked the artist and forced him to confront the fragility of the body, the series transforms swimming into a poetic exploration of healing, discipline, and the quiet
endurance of body and mind.
Cloth hardcover with tip-on
22 × 28 cm, 176 Pages, 55 €
The Colour Journal is not simply another publication about the meaning of colour. Colours have not been approached in a literal way but as a starting point, a pretext to tell bigger stories, a means of revealing the story within the story: we all know Henri Matisse’s Blue Nudes, but who can say the same about Biskra, the forgotten Algerian oasis that inspired him? We may also know about the ultramarine pigment that Yves Klein patented, but who has heard of Edouard Adam, a merchant in Montparnasse who discovered its formula?
The Colour Journal intends to fight against the dictatorship of immediacy, to give depth to the pretty images of fashion magazines and Instagram feeds, to delve into familiar moments of art history and discover what lies beneath, to dig into museum libraries and reveal unseen treasures.
To bring this enterprise to life, we travelled from Idaho to Guangxi, from antiquity to the present day, to bring you a dialogue between forgotten archives and contemporary photography: follow a denim hunter in the American West, visit one of China’s last cultural minorities, peek into Helmut Newton’s private collection of Polaroids and dive into David Hockney’s chlorinated swimming pools.
