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Aaluägä Books is an online platform of artist books featured by Myriam Ziehli & Anne Golaz. AALUAGA BOOKS is the result of a nice feeling to be surrounded by good book makers; therefore we decided to gather together a selection of this flourishing production within the reach of hand. Aaluägä proposes self published works and dummies standing alongside achieved books produced by renown artists and established publishers. They are all related by their authors, production sites or education background located in Switzerland. Yet our interactions, influences and exchanges are worldwide -it is absurd to try to define an identity for this list of books- but there are sparks between people and places, and here are perhaps a few. [email protected] Anne Golaz: www.annegolaz.ch Myriam Ziehli: www.myriamziehli.ch Bruno Aeberli , Adventice Editions , Yvan Alvarez , Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer , Giacomo Bianchetti , Olivier Bemer , Jacques-Aurélien Brun , Delphine Burtin , Chloé Cardinaux , Léa Favre , Matthieu Gafsou , Pierre Girardin ,Anne Golaz , Julien Gremaud , Yann Haeberlin , Haus Am Gern , Susanne Hefti , Benoit Jeannet , Dagmar Keller & Martin Wittwer, Younès Klouche, Charlotte Krieger & Manuela Soto, Elisa Larvego, Romain Legros, Olivier Lovey, Tiphanie Mall , Filipe Martins , Anna Meschiari , Yann Mingard , Benjamin Mouly , Mathilda Olmi , Dylan Perrenoud , Simon Rimaz , Jonathan Roessel , Maya Rochat , Thomas Rousset & Raphaël Verona , Juliette Russbach , Diego Saldiva , Jules Spinatsch , Nicole Hametner & Nicolas Savary, Tilo Steireif & Nicolas Savary, Jules Spinatsch, Valentina Suter, Chloé Tun Tun, Myriam Ziehli

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thank you so much for all the fun we had in Arles ! people, books and rosé were great! anne & myriam

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Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer - Mathematische Modelle 2009 - 2015

http://www.lenaamuat-zoemeyer.com

Pages: 48    Size: 16.5 x 24.5 cm    Weight: 250 g ISBN 978-3-033-05300-7

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Jacques-Aurélien Brun - After Anna http://ja--brun.tumblr.com/

Title: After Anna Artist: Jacques-Aurélien Brun Additional contributor: ECAL Designer: Jacques-Aurélien Brun Editor: self edited Imprint: - Printer: Art graphic Cavin SA, Switzerland Publication date and place: June 2015)/ Renens, Switzerland Edition: 10 Format, binding: Softcover / Swiss Binding Size:  220 x 304 mm Number of pages and images: (120 pages / 89 images) Type of printing and paper:  digital / Quatro Silk 135g/ Sirio Color Blu 115g Book Description:

After Anna is a journey made from island to island where I follow my own quest searching for a mysterious fictional woman who is lost at sea. In the category of an enigmatic Road Trip, explore, off Sicily, some of the endless possibilities of what could have befallen her.For exemple caught in a fisherman’s net or hidden in a deep maritime cave.

I drew inspiration for my journey from The Odyssey when Ulysses tries desperately to reunite with Penelope, and by the brutal disappearance of Anna in L’Avventura of Antionioni. This trip is situated on the boarder between the quest of an old myth and an modern investigation that allow me, parallely, to looking for the roots of my culture.

The project is a book that is cut in five parts where some blue pages are used to separate them.

Regarding the content, I used several subjects as metaphor (for example: fishing and archeology) to evoke a global subject: The disappearance of a woman around the Islands off Sicily. This omnipresent woman in the book is more a ghostly and transcendental figure than a real person.

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some of the great times in london! thanks again see you soon london!

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We had so much great times at Offprint London, definitely one of the great book fairs ! thanks yannick bouillis for inviting us!

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PONTAISE BOOKS / SPRING SALES // BOOK LAUNCH

Thursday April, 28th, 17:00: BOOKLAUNCH Charles Nègre Thomas Rousset - 164° ON THE EQUATOR  edited by ETUDES BOOKS Simon Rimaz - UNUSUAL VIEW OF UNKNOWN SUBJECTS edited by LECTURIS Dates: THU  28.04: 17:00             BOOKLAUNCH / JRP I RINGIER SALES FRI 29.04: 11:00-18:00     JRP I RINGIER SALES SAT 30.04: 12:00-18:00    BRUNCH & JRP I RINGIER SALES Venue: Atelier Mont Blanc 10 Mont Blanc 10 1018 Lausanne BUS N°3 Direction Bellevaux / Stop at Mont Blanc Graphic Design: Pierre Girardin & Lisa Guedel-Dolle With the kind support of : Atelier Mont Blanc 10 Aaluaga Books Publication Micronaut

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Myriam Ziehli - Wetiko Manifesto

www.myriamziehli.ch

Names + website: Myriam Ziehli Title: Wetiko Manifesto Editor: auto-édition Graphic design: Myriam Ziehli Essay: Myriam Ziehli Print (where): Bureau Culturel Vaud Published by (if there is a publisher): selfpublished, dummy book Date of publication: november 2015 Soft-cover or Hard-cover: Soft-cover number of pages: 158 pages number of copies: 3 signed/numbered / first print sold out

Jack D. Forbes explains in his book Columbus and other Cannibals that the wetiko is an american-indian monster figure that represents a psychological disease. It gives the people a violent self-destructive behavior on his own culture and condition. The term refers to a diabolically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others. Native American mythologies portray the mythical figure of wetiko as a cannibalistic spirit who embodies greed and excess and can possess human beings. The wetiko was once a human being, but its greed and selfishness have transformed it into a predatory monster. Thus in indigenous mythology, indulgent, selfdestructive habits are thought to be inspired by wetiko. paul levy

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Yann Mingard - Ligne de Fond

http://yannmingard.ch

Enquête photographique neuchâteloise

L’ouvrage « Ligne de fond » paraît à l’occasion de l’exposition. Il réunit des textes de Thierry Béguin, Jacques-André Humair, François Hainard et Nathalie Herschdorfer.

Conception graphique: Thibaud Tissot Edition : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2015

ISBN 9783858814975

Edition bilingue : français/allemand

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Haus am Gern (Barbara Meyer Cesta & Rudolf Steiner) - AIRE DE BELLELAY Additional contributor: Dr. Johannes Binotto Designer: B&R Graphic Design Bern Editor: Self-Edited Imprint: Edition Haus am Gern Printer: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH / Alternburg, Germany Publication date and place: June, 2015 / Biel, Switzerland Edition: 700 Format and binding: Softcover / Two parts / Handcrafted threadbinding Size: 12.6 x 7.8 in. (32.2 x 20 cm) Number of pages and images: Part one: 76 pages / 2 images, Part two: 144 pages / 133 images Type of printing and paper: Offset / 70 g/qm OpakoSatin

This books comes along with a big installation by the same authors in the baroque Abbey of Bellelay, but It was not designed as a catalogue of the exhibition, rather as a stand-alone book in two parts: in the first one, Dr. Johannes Binotto (theorist of culture and media, independent author and lecturer) writes about mirrors and total blackness, the second part consists of a photo essay by Haus am Gern. The artist couple made a trip to southern Spain, where they collected 133 photographs loosely connected to the topic of 100% reflection, mirrors, deepest blackness and – last but not least – about serendipity.

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Nicolas Savary & Tilo Steireif - Le choix du peuple

http://nicolas-savary.ch/

http://becbed.net/tilo-steireif/

Editions GwinZegal Format : 21/26cm - 115 pages

Ouvrage avec photographies textes (fr., all., ang.)

edition of 600

reliure à spirales

La démarche photographique de Nicolas Savary & Tilo Steireif porte sur la représentation du politicien en tant que figure, dans le système politique « de milice », en Suisse. Cette enquête a débuté en 2005 en s'intéressant aux assemblées des délégués des partis politiques, ces meetings qui dessinent les grands axes thématiques et idéologiques des partis, pour les mois à venir. Savary & Steireif se sont attachés à montrer l’hétérogénéité des lieux de réunion et la disposition de chaque parti à rendre ces moments médiatiques. Dans un deuxième temps, sous le titre de « Kampagne », ils se sont penchés sur la          campagne des élections fédérales en octobre 2007 en s'intéressant aux portraits des politiciens sur les affiches électorales avec comme arrière plan le paysage helvétique, dans toute sa banalité. De même, une série présente la figure du politique intronisée lors de son accession au pouvoir. Les politiciens fraîchement élus posent pour les agences de presse et les photographes indépendants ou officiels dans le Palais fédéral, ces images servant, tout au long du mandat politique, de support à la communication visuelle des parlementaires. Les photographies mettent en évidence le moment très solennel de l’intronisation médiatique par l’image au moment de l’ouverture de la première session après les élections. Les auteurs ont observé comment les élus sont « habillés » visuellement en une personnalité qui se prétend publique. Faut-il faire apparaître la simplicité du citoyen ou se mettre en scène pour l’éternité ? Le politicien photographié hésite entre une représentation plus solennelle et celle qui a précédé sa promotion, où il prenait plus volontiers la pose « passe-partout » et humble de l’élu du peuple.  Enfin, Savary & Steireif se sont penchés sur la question même du dispositif d’exhibition et du regard que la population est invitée à porter sur un système démocratique qui se prétend à la fois immédiatement accessible et transparent. En 2006, une session parlementaire extraordinaire et surtout extra-muros, s’est tenue, dans le village de Flims, au milieu du paysage grandiose des Alpes. Sous le titre de « Streichel Zoo », ou « Zoo à caresses », les auteurs décrivent les jeux d’influence et de négociation des parlementaires, à l’intérieur d’un dispositif scénique, à l’attention de la population venue constater « in vivo », la marche de la          démocratie.

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Pierre Girardin - 12€ 100HKD 13$

2015

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Tiphanie Mall - Ramsdorf 1

Photographs by CERN

edited by Tiphanie Mall

edition of 200

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Benoit Jeannet - A Geological Index Of The Landscape

http://www.benoitjeannet.ch/

“Benoît Jeannet’s book operates somewhere on the extreme end of the spectrum of a typological approach to landscape,” says Lesley Martin. “It is meticulously indexed, simultaneously lush and highly methodical in its survey of geological and topographic details — a nouvelle vague approach to the New Topographics.” Created as part of Jeannet’s graduate thesis at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, the book combines studio experiments recreating atmospheric and geologic forms with on-site studies of actual landscapes throughout both Europe and the U.S. The reader is guided by a highly systematized if somewhat absurd taxonomy, using elements such as size or “experiment type” (including “Waves” and “Rainbows”). Each image is accompanied by a multi-character label that allows the viewer to decipher and interpret the type, location, context, and other aspects of the landscape or item depicted, without sacrificing pure visual pleasure.

Read more at http://www.parisphoto.com/paris/program/2015/the-photobook-awards/first-photobook-shortlist-a-geological-index-of-the-landscape#HxxbKy7lH0EPyZ0h.99

Benoît Jeannet, A Geological Index of the Landscape, self-published, 2015.   

http://www.benoitjeannet.ch/  

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Delphine Burtin - Sans condition initiale

www.burtin.ch/photographie

Through the object constructions and photographs in her installation Sans condition initiale [With no initial condition], Delphine Burtin’s pursues her conceptual investigations of the leitmotiv of the “visual accident.” Present in all her images, she views this discordant motif as a way of attracting our visual attention and sowing doubt into our perception of reality. In this extremely controlled series contrived in studio, the artist deepens her explorations of the limits to and the ambivalence of human understanding. Supremely economical in terms of technique and colour, she amasses, aligns, overlaps, and arranges ordinary objects — glass, fly-swat, sphere — that she characterises as “pieces of world.” From these “existing visual fragments,” Burtin adumbrates an entirely reconfigured visual semiotics. By hijacking objects from their everyday use and reassigning their significance, the arbitrary combinatory game generated by the artist results in a surprising photographic language, in which objects we thought we knew become unfamiliar and the incongruous associations they set in train undermine our conventional representations. If Delphine Burtin’s works have often been discussed in terms of still-life photography, in the present case it would be more pertinent to talk of the photography of sculpture. Sans condition initiale investigates the interaction between objects transformed into sculptures, sculptures that subsequently morph into photographs, and photographs that revert back to the status of sculptural objects by occupying all three dimensions of space.

for reGeneration3 exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne

Text by Emilie Delcambre, Musée de l’Elysée

Names + website: Delphine Burtin, www.burtin.ch/photographie Title: Sans condition initiale Editor: auto-édition Graphic design: Delphine Burtin Essay: Print (where): Art & Caractère, Lavaur, France Published by (if there is a publisher): Date of publication: august 2015 Soft-cover or Hard-cover: Hard-cover number of pages: 56 pages number of copies: 250ex signed/numbered

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Anne Golaz - Corbeau www.annegolaz.ch

Soft cover with flaps 23x29cm 156p and 115 color and black/white illustrations; photographs and drawings by Anne Golaz Silk screen cover & hand made binding by Atelier Zone Hors Poussière Agiez Digital printing 25 test copies 2015

Raven is an enigma, an invisible and omniscient character, a mediator between life and death; as in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, the raven symbolises what will never be anymore. Likewise, photography seems to be bound to a forever gone moment.

I worked on this body of work for a period of over ten years, from 2004 till 2015. Today it contains about 115 images from several techniques that I experimented in order to learn how to develop my own visual language. All photographs were shot in the same place, closely related to the farm where I grew up and the family members.

This period of ten years represents my photographic journey and its progression till today, thus without following a chronological order. Raven describe the passing of time in one closed and defined place, yet without leading to any denouement. Things change, people pass by, but impossible to know towards what.

Built around a central character, this work describes a transition time matching the transmission between two generations. And beyond the rural world that these images depict, they suggest fundamental themes, such as the inescapable passing of time, life and death, mixed feelings of belonging to a place, heritage and complex family links both supportive and destructive, and destiny that perhaps shapes somewhere in the claire-obscures nooks of childhood. Anne Golaz

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Younès Klouche - TRUST Magnum

www.younes.klouche.com

In central Switzerland, international companies enjoy tax privileges and set offices in large buildings just like those of The City in London. The managers and employees roam the streets of a small village in german convertibles or running clothes at lunchtime. G***core for instance is a giant wholesaler and mineral extractor. They own mines all over the world that pollute, provoke cancer with water intoxication, and has very low ethics when it comes to the workers conditions and salary. It is one of the worst company in the world but they hide right here in the beautiful landscape of the region ; behind buildings opaque facade or dark reflective surfaces. With no privileged access on site, central Switzerland allowed me to observe what makes no uproar, spy the discrete practices of traders and reveal the threat of a postcards haunting specter.

Title: TRUST Magnum Artist: Younès Klouche Designer: Younès Klouche Editor: Younès Klouche / ECAL University of Art and Design, Lausanne. Imprint: Self Published Printer: Cavin Art Graphique / Grandson, Switzerland Publication date and place: July 2015 / Lausanne, Switzerland Edition: 11 Format and binding: Hardcover / swiss binding Size: 23cm X 30cm Number of pages and images: 104 pages / 46 images Type of printing and paper: digital printing / Fisher coated 170g Retail price: On demand

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Dagmar Keller & Martin Wittwer - Passengers

http://www.kellerwittwer.de

Passengers (Book) released with Spector Books in November 2013 164 pp., 114 color illustrations, sewn hardcover, clothbound Leipzig 2013 ISBN: 978-3-944669-02-1

“Passengers” is the result of an observation Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer made at night at a bus station while travelling through Poland. For a moment, the passengers on an old bus, obscured behind stained, ice-covered windows, in the pale light of the bus station had the appearance of figures in a painting. Travellers, fallen out of time. Tired, lost in thought, their faces drawn by sadness or lit up with joy – so close and yet distanced behind the glass. Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer have preserved those quiet, fleeting moments in their series “Passengers”.

http://www.kellerwittwer.de