Edition Patrick Frey

Active since 1986, Edition Patrick Frey focuses on unique projects and produces books in small print runs. The purpose of Edition Patrick Frey is to provide particularly young artists, mainly Swiss but also international, an opportunity and a platform with a first publication, but EPF has also been engaged in long-term collaborations with several artists such as Walter Pfeiffer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, and Andreas Züst. With an output of up to 20 books per year, the publisher focuses mainly on photography, art and projects dealing with everyday and popular culture.
 
Piotr Uklański - Pornalikes
2019
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A book of portraits with a difference, culled from a 2002–2018 photo archive of porn actors who resemble or actually even portray celebrities and public figures. Polish artist Piotr Uklański draws on a stock of hard and soft copies of “dirty” glossy men's magazines like Hustler and Loaded—as well as a plethora of meme culture material dumped on websites and blogs.
Gustav Mesmer - Ikarus vom Lautertal genannt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.
Giorgio Wolfensberger - Foto Povera
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
First monograph dedicated to the artistic freelance photography of industrial photographer and filmmaker Giorgio Wolfensberger (1945-2016). Beginning with the black-and-white documentary photography of his first years, the publication then documents a rich body of colorful photographs depicting with humor, the strangeness of everyday life and its objects.
 Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Marcel Jäggi - Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore
2018
English edition
An architectural exploration of haunted locations in Singapore.
 Hodel / Schumacher / Clavadetscher - Luftbad
2018
German edition
A selection of about 2.000 mail art works on paper (drawings, collages…) created between 1991-1994 by the artists' trio. They would mail each other pictures, repeatedly overpainting and adding to them until they comprised several layers. Each book cover is unique, individually designed by Eric Schumacher and Andrea Clavadetscher.
Lukas Wassmann - W
2018
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Monograph showcasing 18 years of practice by the Swiss photographer. Alternating snapshots, self-portraits, documentary and fashion photography, pictures of arranged landscapes, buildings, people, and furniture, this publication provides a wide overview of Wassmann's artistic approach through associative sequences weaving on a loose narrative, like a stream of consciousness.
Shane Lavalette - Still (Noon)
2018
English edition
In 2017, Shane Lavalette crossed Switzerland to do a photo essay on Swiss rural life. To that end, he followed the itinerary taken some eighty years ago by Swiss photojournalism pioneer Theo Frey. This publication juxtaposes these old and new views of the Swiss countryside to offer up an unusual and moving portrait of a nation.
Jesús León - Vida
2018
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
José de Jesús “Chucho” León Hernández is a part of Mexico City's nightlife. For over twenty years he has been photographing the city's vibrant music scene, the carryings-on at underground venues and gay clubs, the newcomers and leavers, rising stars and departing legends.
Sahli Hansjörg - Rhonegletscher
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
A series of photographs of the Rhône Glacier in Switzerland, taken between the summers of 2014 and 2017. Each year during this season, the authorities cover the glacier with blankets to fight melting ice.
Walter Pfeiffer - Bildrausch – Drawings 1966-2018
2018
English edition
Focusing on a lesser known aspect of Walter Pfeiffer's practice, this monograph explores the Swiss photographer's graphic works throughout the decades: large-scale hyper-realistic pencil drawings, drawings in China ink, colored pencils and watercolors, characterized by a joyful sensuality that emanates from his portraits of friends and his floral still lifes.
Klaudia Schifferle - 152 Paperdolls
2018
German edition
This publication features a series of 152 paper dolls by artist Klaudia Schifferle, also co-founder of cult punk band Kleenex / Liliput. These collages, created with magazine cutouts collaged on A4 paper, embody a certain vision of modern life, identified by consumerism and commodity fetishism.
Niklaus Stauss - Foto
2018
German edition
This publication presents an overview of the Zurich photographer's work as well as a very personal record of the Swiss and European arts scene of the past sixty years. Edited by Barbara Stauss, it's also a daughter's tribute to her father on his 80th birthday.
Manuel Burgener - Summary
2018
English edition
Summary by Swiss artist Manuel Burgener is a companion piece to his 2018 Manor Prize show at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The idea behind this artist's book is to undertake a fundamental examination of the purpose of an exhibition catalogue. It asks whether an artwork, especially a sculpture, can be documented at all in the form of a readable depiction.
Athene Galiciadis - An Acrylic Glass Pyramid and Three Pendulums attached to a Triangle on a Table
2018
English edition
Monograph by artist Athene Galiciadis gathering unpublished artworks, specially created for this publication: inspired by Emma Kunz, Swiss artist and healer, whose work draws on geometric abstraction, Galiciadis produced a series of drawings—figures, spirals, patterns and vases—printed on graph paper, accompanied by photographic documentation.
Olivier Degorce - Fridge Food Soul
2018
English edition
Photographer Olivier Degorce brings together a series of fridge photographs shot from 1993 to 2017: Beyond the obsessive nature of the project lies the sheer diversity of individual eating habits in the form of contemporary still lifes.
Alex Hanimann - Trapped
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
This publication gathers a series of snapshots of domestic and exotic animals, mostly taken at night by automatically triggered “camera traps”.
Luciano Rigolini - AS 15-16
2018
English edition
Luciano Rigolini gives a minimalist reinterpretation of photo shoots produced by NASA astronauts during the lunar landing missions Apollo 15 and Apollo 16.
Manuel Süess - Altar
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Through photographic documentation and essay, Altar documents the widespread human urge to elevate secular things to the status of “ritual objects” and combine them to form private altars. Whether they're dust catchers, knickknacks, souvenirs, found objects, meaningful artworks or earnestly and deeply revered objects, they all tell a peculiar story—not in words, but in things—about whoever built the altar.
Olivier Mosset - Wheels
2018
English edition
Wheels gives a special overview of Olivier Mosset's career through the prism of his fascination for motorcycle and motor vehicles and their influence on his artistic practice.
 Jurczok 1001 - Spoken Beats
2018
German edition
This anthology dedicated to spoken-word pioneer Jurczok 1001 compiles a wide selection of typed scripts, ranging from his early raps to pieces inspired by concrete poetry. The volume features a text by writer and performance artist Melinda Nadj Abonji.
Michael Günzburger - Contact
2018
English edition (texts in English, German, Latin)
This publication features a series of lithographs which captured impressions of wild animals. This technique was developed by artist Michael Günzburger to explore with directness and immediacy the physical energy of bestiality. The series is accompanied by a text by writer Lukas Bärfuss which takes the reader on an expedition up through northern woods all the way to the frozen wilderness of an island in the North Sea.
Pierre Keller - My Colorful Life
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Some four thousand Polaroids depicting nearly fifteen years in the life of artist and former director of the Lausanne art school, ECAL. This photographic diary offers an intimate and erotic portrait of Keller, from its time in 1970s New York to trips to South America and Europe. With texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stéphanie Moisdon.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Veronika Minder - Alfred Jonathan Steffen - Art Décor
2018
German edition
brings back to life the forgotten art of window-dressing, through an artistic and intimate portrtait of window-dresser Bob Steffen.
Beni Bischof - Texte 3
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Texte 3 is another pictureless book by Beni Bischof, printed in standard pocket size. It is Bischof's personal presentation of his rich collection of catchy headlines and slogans, absurd comments and off-the-wall remarks. His text archives are a trove of inspiration for his pictures and titles.
Giorgio di Noto - The Iceberg
2017
English edition
An extraordinary publication gathering a selection of stock images and original photographs drawn from the myriad ads for drug sales on the dark web designed to catch the consumer's eye. These photographs are invisible under normal light: printed in invisible ink, they can only be viewed under ultraviolet light (the publication includes a mini flashlight).
 Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier - Years later...
2017
English edition
For three years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier have been taking candid photographs of people from all walks of life and of every age in public and semi-public urban spaces: on streets and city squares, in cafés and bars, train stations and airports, stores and shopping centers. Combined with genuine words taken from the internet or heard in the street, this photographic series is a comédie humaine of the present day and age.
David & Tania Willen - Appetite for the Magnificent
2017
English edition
Appetite for the Magnificent is a photographic and essayistic exploration of the history and present-day world of the aquarium. The contribution by David and Tania Willen tackles the aesthetic dimension of Swiss present-day aquariums, while Jörg Scheller's essay on naturalist Philip Henry Gosse retraces the evolution of the aquarium at the interface between art, science and religion...
Emil Michael Klein - Paintings
2017
English edition
This artist's book presents a recent series of works by Emil Michael Klein. These large-scale oil paintings on canvas, executed from 2013 to 2016, are transformed here by the medium, format and reduced size of the printed book. Designer Teo Schifferli has brought together the artist's own selection of 30 high-quality art prints of his paintings, including different takes and angles on those canvases, as well as other stand-alone works by Klein.
Francisca Silva - 25 Memoranden
2017
English edition
First artist's book: 25 poetic notes on love written on a memorandum.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Early Retirement
2017
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Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.
Stéphan Landry - Tout va bien
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Catalogue dedicated to illustrator Stéphan Landry, a key player of the Swiss art scene in the 1990.
Josef Maria Schröder -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.
Anton Bruhin - Dämonen
2017
English edition
What would a current-day demon look like? The Swiss artist playfully rehabilitates these evil figures in 170 minimalist portraits—rendering them as an ideal type of the postmodern, at once terrifying and comical.
Keiichi Tanaami - Perfect Cherry Blossom
2017
English edition
Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.
Mélanie Veuillet - Tools of Disobedience
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
185 photographs of everyday objects secretly made by inmates in their cells.
Jean Willi - Steingesichter
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Photographic series dedicated to pareidolia—the phenomenon of perceiving non-existing things in inanimate objects, such as human faces or animal heads in rocks (artist's book).
Claudia Comte - 40 x 40
2017
English edition
(last copies available!)
This large-format artist's book (40 x 40 cm open) brings together graphic works by Claudia Comte. Mathematically structured like a Cartesian coordinate system, the publication folds and unfolds so that it can be read in four different ways. The book becomes a geometric play space in which to discover the many facets of Comte's visual identity.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - Continental Drift
2017
English edition
Photographic account of the two photographers's automobile trip from Switzerland to Mongolia, through the mystical realms of the East.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
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