PUBLICATIONS | Eva Nielsen

NEW ART SCALES
with The Pill

Edited with text by Ingrid Luquet-Gad
Afterword by Suela Cennet
16 artists
175 photographs of works
300 pages
8,25 × 10,75 inches
20,5 × 27cm
Graphic design: Emma Zampieri—Studio JBE
Coproduction JBE Books × The Pill

English edition
ISBN: 978-2-36568-064-6

35 €

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🌍 Under Ingrid Luquet-Gad’s pen, New Arts Scales writes the art of the 21st century with the tools, ambition and quality of a timeless art history book. In this very place, Istanbul, the exact junction between East and West, between the local and the global, there is a gallery, The Pill, founded by Suela Cennet in 2016, that is as much a tool of resistance as a way to blast the dialectic between center and margins. New Art Scales tells the story of this change of scale. A reference book on the ultra-contemporary, which writes art at the very moment it is made.

Artists featured
Eva Nielsen, Marion Verboom, Leylâ Gediz, Ugo Schiavi, Elsa Sahal, Raphaël Barontini, Apolonia Sokol, Soufiane Ababri, Mireille Blanc, Pablo Dávila, Berke Doğanoğlu, Daniel Otero Torres, Aykan Safoğlu, Elif Erkan, İrem Gunaydin, Lux Miranda

Eva Nielsen has developed a hybrid practice exploring the boundaries between painting and photography while embracing the potential for permeability between these two mediums. Her compositions combine the traditional techniques of painting with those of silk screening and are created using overlays. From the outskirts of towns and cities to desolate nature scenes or liminal spaces, they bring together landscapes and architectural elements in a sequence of strata, evoking the sedimentary mechanisms having resulted in the territorial fragments they represent. These creative processes typical of Eva Nielsen’s universe enrich the works featured in Chroma, which is published in connection with the sixth edition of the LVMH Métiers d’Art residency. Invited to set up her studio for six months on the premises of Les Tanneries Roux in Romans-sur-Isère, the artist was able to give a new substantiality to her creations and make two completely opposite materials — leather and silk — occupy the same surface. Throughout the residency, she was also able to draw on the silk printing expertise of the atelier Twinpix. The result is a new series of works unmistakably shaped by the residency’s geographic surroundings, with the proximity of the Isère river and the omnipresent Vercors range.