The book ‘WATER COLUMN’ by artist duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs whisks you away to the world beneath the water surface, appearing at Edition Patrick Frey, 2023
The depths of the sea have always kindled human imagination, for this is a realm in which anything seems possible, a vast screen onto which we project all sorts of bizarre notions and phantasmagorical visions. The deep sea obeys other laws, other rules, and more and more evidence suggests we might even find our origins there – and, in its storied layers of sediment, our ultimate end. Using a wide range of cutting-edge photographic tools and inventions, Swiss artist duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (both *1979) explore this uncharted world and create visual scenarios that inextricably fuse scientific research and science fiction.
‘WATER COLUMN’ revolves around a place, a realm, that directly surrounds us and yet for most of us is as distant and alien as only the vastness of space could be: the world beneath the surface of the water. Only through the use of elaborate technology are we able to dive ever deeper and explore these uncharted waters. Exploration however inevitably leads to exploitation, and we’re liable to destroy this underwater world before we even get a close look at it, let alone begin to understand it.
FUTURE is a two-part publication by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, appearing at Edition Patrick Frey over the course of three years. The first publication is entitled ‘FUTURE MEMORIES’, published in 2021, and deals with the question of how our idea of the future has changed over the past decades, how this affects our perception of the present, and how we face the coming changes.
In 1986, Swiss native Patrick Frey founded the publishing company Edition Patrick Frey, which has published more than 350 books to this day, above all, in the areas of art, artist books, photography and architecture. Many have received awards as ‘Most Beautiful Swiss Book’ from the Federal Office of Culture.
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs WATER COLUMN . Text: Ingo Niermann, Design: Claudio Barandun . 22 x 28 cm, brochure, 96 pages, 64 color images, € 48.-, September 2023 . ISBN 78-3-907236-56-7 . Edition Patrick Frey
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