What it is
Ingo Giezendanner, who works as GRRRR, has been drawing the cities he lives in and travels through since 1998, with pen on paper, on location. Zurich is home; the drawings also come from New York, New Orleans, Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. They have appeared in magazines, books and animated films, and as installations and wall paintings.
Mille Feuilles
Mille Feuilles (Nieves, 2024) is a thick softcover of 1,000 pages, 13.2 × 18 cm and 5.5 cm thick, printed black and white in offset (ISBN 978-3-907179-77-2). The title is French for "a thousand leaves." The whole book is given to wild, rampant greenery, drawn mostly in black and white, with patterns and faces showing up in the foliage. Nieves calls it overwhelming on purpose, a reference book for plants that grow out of control. On his own site it is GRR102 in his numbered series.
Other books
- Zzz Züri (Nieves, 2013): 192 pages, a walk through Zurich drawn on the spot in felt pen, tracking how building work, decay and the people who live there mark the city.
- GRR67 – Bücherwald (Nieves, 2017): 496 pages, softcover, 13.2 × 18 cm.
- GRR89 – Sloppy Sleep (Nieves, 2020): 160 pages of felt-pen drawings from small notebooks, about waking up in a city and noticing its noise and inequality.
- Kitchen (Bored Wolves, 2021): a pocket book of 49 colored-pencil drawings of still lifes on a kitchen table in Zurich, made in 2020 and 2021.
Sources
- Nieves, Mille Feuilles: https://nieves.ch/6419/mille_feuilles
- Edcat, Mille Feuilles: https://edcat.net/item/mille-feuilles/
- Edcat, Ingo Giezendanner: https://edcat.net/person/ingo-giezendanner/
- Edcat, Zzz Züri: https://edcat.net/item/zzz-zuri-2/
- Edcat, GRR67 – Bücherwald: https://edcat.net/item/grr67-bucherwald/
- Edcat, GRR89 – Sloppy Sleep: https://edcat.net/item/grr89-sloppy-sleep/
- Edcat, Kitchen: https://edcat.net/item/kitchen/
- GRRRR, GRR102: Mille Feuilles: https://www.grrrr.net/mille/index.html