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A rectangular box covered in a grid of black and white illustrations and photographs. One red panel features the handwritten text “Le rose la couleur des hippies”.

Like Nieves, zines and box-sets? Then their 2012 zine box is for you!

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Date
14 March 2013

Nieves, the champion zine and artists’ books publishers based in Zurich, have just released this covetable, limited edition package bringing together all 18 of their inky numbers from the past year.

Nieves zines are outwardly uniform: stapled little books of the same size, same page number, printed on the same paper, usually in black and white. But the contents range wildly. Within the 18 different artists here there’s a great variety – from Emmanuelle Pidoux’s dark watery wastelands to Olaf Breuning’s naughty line doodles, from Jocko Weyland’s eerie photographs to Allison Schulnik’s sculpted and painted “misfits”, the Nieves Zine Box looks like fascinating mixed bag.

An open book featuring a black and white collage. On the right, a dark, ink-like cloud pours from the window of a small house.
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Emmanuelle Pidoux: Le Bloc Noir

An open book shows two pages of surreal photography. Each page features a crowd of figures draped in shaggy, white, textured costumes and masks.
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Allison Schulnik: Eager

An open book shows a black and white photograph of a concrete skate park. The image focuses on the sweeping, curved lines of the bowls and ramps.
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Jocko Weyland: The Lake of Death

An open zine with black ink drawings on white paper. The left page shows a figure stretching on the floor, while the right page features a swirling, circular pattern of small loops containing the text “LIKE O BOOB O SO MUCH MAYBE I AM SICK?”.
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Olaf Breuning: Love, Life, Fuck

An illustration across two pages of a book. A person with black hair looks on as another figure’s arms reach upwards, their grey hat blowing away amidst falling leaves.
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Andy Rementer: Love and Hats

An open book showing two black and white illustrations. The left page features a distorted tennis racket, while the right page contains a complex, abstract composition of swirling lines and shapes.
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Rob Churm: Flicking Glass Snails

A line drawing across two open pages of a sketchbook. On the left, a person in a hat sits and reads a book; on the right, a person sits in a detailed interior with a table and chairs.
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Chris Hopkins & Emi Ueoka: Matterhorn

A black and white illustration in an open book shows a surreal, hairy figure. A second, smaller face emerges from the side of the larger head.
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Shoboshobo: Aaron / Benjamin

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