Hans Gremmen Price: 30,000 won / Dimension: 200 x 270 mm / Pages: 80 / Binding: Soft cover / English with Dutch translation / Full-color (2010) <Fw:9 Off the Wall> This publications documentates a series of exhibitions that Fw: orginzed in 2009: three dual exhibitions, the first two of which took place in De Balie (Amsterdam) and the last in Foam (Amsterdam). The first exhibition, from February till April, was titled Faraway So Close. It showed the work of Jaap Scheeren and Babette Kleijn, one after the other. From May to August, the second exhibition took place: Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, showing first the work of Paulien Oltheten and then Raymond Taudin Chabot, also in De Balie. Finally, Foam opened Dieuwertje Komen and Elian Somers’ duo exhibition Concrete Dreams’ in December. Their work was put on display in the so-called ‘3H room’ or experimental room on the third floor of the museum. Ryoko Aoki Price: 33,000won / Dimension: 250 x 182 mm / Pages: 128 / Binding: Soft cover / Full-color (September, 2009) <Chain Ring> Pop but cynical, floating wonderland with full of mysterious humor - a painter, Ryoko Aoki's first book extensively collected her fascinatingly imaginative works of from her drawing masterpieces with colorful botanic motifs, the earlier works, sketches on a scrap book, to snapshots she took and brief prose-like notes. With exquisite blend of pop taste and girlish or folklore feelings, her works are composed of various elements allocated and drawn inscrutably, this enables one piece of paper to suggest spacious possibility. As if the artist's inner mind were visualized and come to front, this book sparkles with full of curious rhythm and wonderful creativity. Korean Contemporary Art Price: 32,000won / Dimension: 235 x 190 mm / Pages: 120 / Binding: Soft cover / Full-color (July, 2009) <DOUBLE FANTASY> Making rapid progress, Korean Contemporary Art has attracted great attentions from all over the world. To explore the fascination, major group exhibition "Double Fantasy" featuring edgy 15 Korean artists will be held at Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art. * Includes English and Korean translations. Rinko Kawauchi Price: 44,000won / Dimensions: 300mm×220mm / Pages: 184 pages / Binding: Soft cover / Full-color (July, 2007) <Semear> A century has passed since the first Japanese Immigrants arrived to Brazil. Invited by MAM (Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo), Rinko Kawauch took new series of photographs of, from Japanese Brazilian community, the scenery of the great nature and animals living there, everyday life of its inhabitants, to the Rio Carnival, through her three times visits to Brazil. Rinko Kawauchi Price: 20,000won / Dimensions: 224mm×150mm / Pages: 112 pages / Binding: Hard cover / Full-color (February, 2005) <The Eyes, The ears> Images of nature such as flowers and insects together with human lives such as children crossing a road, a plane starting or a car driving down the street are presented in this book. The whispering words of Rinko bring us into her very special world of memories and thoughts of what is life. Yoshiromo Nara Price: 26,000won / Dimension: 210x150mm / Pages: 144 / Binding: Soft cover / Full-color (September, 2005) <Slash with a Knife> When everyone is sleeping, I’m somewhat laughing - by Yoshitomo Nara Nara’s one of the most long-selling books, “Slash with a Knife” is out on FOIL as the revised edition. Nara’s eccentric but also very cute characteristic girl ramps around all the pages in the full-color & handheld picture book. Yoshiromo Nara Price: 26,000won / Dimension: 300x210mm / Pages: 144 / Binding: Soft cover (August, 2005) <Nobody knows> One of the best-selling books made by Yoshitomo Nara! A scrap of paper, back of an envelope, cardboard… This book is filled with the drawings and the autograph writings of Nara. This is revised version of Yoshitomo Nara “Nobody Knows” originally published by Little More in July 2001. The bookbinding has been newly designed Seung woo Back Price: 30,000won / Dimension: 240x320cm / Pages: 96 / Binding: Soft cover / Full-color (October, 2007) <Real World> “Real World,”which is a series of photographs taken in a theme park located in South Korea, presents miniatures of world-famous tourism places. Putting the fake miniatures and Seoul’s real landscape together, Seung Woo Back creates a sensational space that is both real and unreal to the viewers. Another series, “Blow Up” is a set of enlarged photographs extracted from the original film taken in North Korea. Like a snap shot, his image intrigues viewers by brining voyeuristic interest, on the other hands, the reality of the veiled county, North Korea seems to slipped out gradually from his image that is rather different from the scene we usually experience through the reports broadcasted by the mass media. Ron Mueck Price: 30,000won / Size: A4 / 88 Pages / Soft Cover (April, 2008) Ron Mueck is undoubtedly one of the most notable artists in the world. By accompanying with his first major solo exhibition in Japan at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, his first collection book is published in the end of April, 2008. Rinko Kawauchi Price: 38,000won / Dimension: 30x23cm / Pages: 176 / Binding: Hard cover / Full-color (November, 2005) <AILA> A chick, horse, dog, turtle and human beings…. Some creatures die soon after the birth; some creatures are born only to be eaten by the others to sustain the other lives. All the living creatures are accepting their fates in the life. By capturing the ephemeral existence of the lives in nature, Rinko Kawauchi invites us to reconsider the boundary between life and death. AILA is the most successful and overwhelming series of Rinko Kawauchi. Copyright 2007 FOIL CO., Ltd. And IANNBOOKS. All Rights Reserved.