The Tarot Garden, situated in Italy, is a sculpture park, planned and created by Niki de Saint Phalle. It is her very personal vision of the personalities of the tarot-game: the world, the fool, the hermit, death, the wheel of fortune.

The Tarot Garden

Arts & Photography

De Saint Phalle, Niki

History & Criticism

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For Marco Paoluzzo the "North" means above all Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the black landscapes, the rigours of the weather and the feeling of loneliness accompanying the idea of the end of the world. He returns again and again on his journeys to his favourite places where each time in the magic of the light his pictures there became a little simpler, clearer and more personal. Text in English, German and French.

North Nord

Paoluzzo, Marco

Individual Artists

Inspired by Antoni Gaudí’s Parc Güell in Barcelona and the Mannerist park Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo, Niki de Saint Phalle, together with her partner Jean Tinguely, created her sculpture park in Garavicchio, in the southern-most part of Tuscany. In this vast garden, the 22 cards of the tarot’s Major Arcana are represented in the form of enormous sculptures, 12 to 15 meters high, made of painted polyester and reinforced concrete, covered with mirrors, mosacis, multicoloured ceramics and Murano glass. This enchanted world was, for her, the ultimate achievement of her oeuvre, its culmination. The volume consists of text written by Saint Phalle herself and explaining her thoughts and intentions as well as photos of all sculptures.

Niki de Saint Phalle and the Tarot Garden

Runways addresses disappearance and death in sites of personal loss in Israel's landscape. These are images of ambivalent beauty, so close to both life and death. Text in English & German.

Runways

Leshem, Naomi

Photography & Video

Passion, tradition, perfection and the highest levels of technical sophistication – all this is represented by the name of IWC Schaffhausen. Its head office and principal production site in Schaffhausen are the result of one of the most interesting stories about the foundation of a company in the watchmaking industry. Now you may read it in a sumptuously produced book with over 500 illustrations. A luxurious volume with outstanding photographs and a lively text, containing a wealth of background information and fascinating incidental facets, which will appeal not only to collectors and specialists but to all watch enthusiasts. And let yourself be carried away into an enthralling world of time written by bestselling author Paulo Coelho exclusively for IWC and illustrated by the gifted drawing artist Enki Bilal.

IWC Schaffhausen: Engineering Time Since 1868

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Fritz, Manfred

Antiques & Collectibles

An astonishingly dense series of photographs Willi P. Burkhardt circles Lake Lucerne, the cradle of the Swiss Confederation. In impressive panoramic shots he shows this unique landscape with its villages and towns from the bird's as well as the worm's eye view. Text in English and German.

PANORAMA: Lake Lucerne

Burkhard, Willi P.

Cows are special animals to Andreas C. Studer. Ever since he was a boy growing up with cows in Interlaken, he has been fascinated by these peaceful creatures. High-quality products like savoury cheese, fresh butter and bitter melting milk chocolate would be impossible without their milk. While photographing he has discovered many beautiful unknown locations in Switzerland, as well as meeting many Swiss cows. Attracted to their passive temperament he has included descriptions of idyllic country life and how good it is to be a Swiss cow. Text in English, French and German.

My Swiss Cows

Studer, Andreas C.

Photographer Luca Zanier casts a look behind the curtains of the energy industry. His images open the doors to hidden universes, usually inaccessible to the public, highly protected as they are against accidents and terrorism. Abandoned worlds of concrete and steel reveal themselves to us, cathedrals of the modern age, temples of an energy-devouring society that radiate a cold logic. His images of imposing halls, endless corridors, massive floodgates and cryptic signs are as intimidating as they are fascinating. They seem extraterrestrial and surreal at times, as if taken from a science fiction movie; their aesthetics make us forget that we are looking at highly complex industrial systems. Systems that serve as well as threaten us.

Power Book

Zanier, Luca

Mysterious stone formations, overgrown primeval forests, arctic ice floes – Max Schmid’s photographs bear witness to the fact that Switzerland is not just a land of Alpine idylls and snowy mountains. These pictures show the wild side of Switzerland, untamed nature in all its dramatic power. One might be in Australia, Greenland or some other unexplored area of the planet forgotten by humans. Sublime, bare, lush, colorful, romantic or even apocalyptic – this volume proves just how incredibly diverse Swiss landscape can be.

Swiss Wilderness

Schmid, Max

Reading Revolutionaries proposes an alternative reading of John Sparagana's work in the form of a literal understanding of visual information as text. Crowds & Powder: The Revolutionaries, a large-scale work of art, is translated into the format of a mass-market paperback book. Arranged over eighty double-page spreads, each individual page frames a full-scale fragment of this work. This small volume perpetuates Sparagana s manipulation of printed media and contributes to the ongoing study of the relationship between media and the arts. Not only does it allude to a growing discourse on the control and manipulation of visual narrative, as increasingly witnessed from political imagery to popular culture, but it also investigates the way we read and process (visual) language

Reading Revolutionaries

Sparagana, John

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