#Niklas Nenzen

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With each issue devoted to a single artist--Roland Topor, HR Giger, Unica Zürn, and Niklas Nenzén--Antonio Ramírez Mentes de Ácido's Óxido Lento from Spain is a fascinating endeavor. Order information below:

Hello, six months ago we published the first two issues of the fanzine Óxido Lento, focused on visionary, fantastic and surrealist art. It is a fanzine in the most classic sense, with cheap, practically artisanal editions and, of course, non-profit making. But with the ambition of presenting a selection of good images in each issue, and also accompanied by our own texts that deal with each topic in some depth.

The first was a special issue on Roland Topor, the master of black humour and absurdity. The second was on the dark universe of HR Giger.

We also published a special issue outside the collection: Desorden Orgánico, with automatic drawings of mine.

Now we are back with a second batch of fanzines.

Issue three is dedicated to Unica Zurn and her rich visual world full of magic and mystery. Her automatic drawings are an inexhaustible source of poetry. It includes a wonderful text by María Santana.

Number four is about the Swedish surrealist Niklas Nenzén, creator of delirious and strange images that assault our gaze to question and amaze us. It includes a recent interview published in English and Spanish.

If you are interested in purchasing the fanzines, we offer the following prices:

1 copy: 3 + 4 shipping costs

2 copies: 5.50 + 7 shipping costs

3 copies: 8 + 7 shipping costs

4 copies: 10.50 + 7 shipping costs

The complete collection (4 Oxido lento + Desorden orgánico): 12 + 7 shipping costs

The prices indicated are for Europe, for Spain the shipping costs are 3 euros.

If you wish, you can order it by private message, or through oxidolento@gmail.com

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Now available: Dreamdew #29 featuring Bruno Jacobs's "The Tools of the Night," a gallery of Niklas Nenzén's dreams and dream images, and a letter from Charles Baudelaire.

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Emma Lundmark's new novel Storknästet (Stork's Nest) is now available from Modernists with a cover by Niklas Nenzén (Swedish text). Merl Fluin (author of numerous fictional works, as well) on her Gorgon in Furs blog has translated the back cover blurb for those of us who don't (yet) read Swedish:

"The populist Prime Minister Andro Barras is no longer popular. To get the people back on side – and to make them forget all the allegations of corruption – he takes in a child refugee: Zîn, who never goes anywhere without her doll, her best friend. But the plan goes wrong. As the political game becomes increasingly desperate and family life is torn apart, the magical doll begins to whisper. And the mighty billionaire heads towards his downfall.

The Stork’s Nest is a novel where the lies of power are set before the absurd funhouse mirror of fiction. It is also the name of the spa and conference facility that led to accusations of fraud against the Czech Republic’s real-life prime minister Andrej Babiš."

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Alcheringa, no. 2

I’ve finally had time to read through the second issue of Alcheringa and am struck by its contents. Opening homages to Michel Zimbacca, who died in 2021, give a chance to revisit not only his films but his three-dimensional and two-dimensional images, and his history with the Paris Surrealist Group up until its dissolution and on to BLS, S.U.RR... and Alcheringa itself. Dreams are a constant focus throughout the journal, starting with a game analyzing that of an unknown person, whose identity when revealed entirely changes the scope of its imagery. Joël Gayraud follows this with the results of his recent dream survey. Guy Girard introduces a gallery of surrealist drawings with works by Eva Švankmajerova, Susanna Wald, Rikki Ducornet, Hazel Cline, Ivan Horaček, Premysl Martinec, Rik Lina, Niklas Nenzen, Massimo Borghese among others. Guy Girard continues with a piece covering the Gilet Jaune protests in some detail and provides an excellent essay on Andre-Pierre Sauvageot’s films over the last decade. An interview with the painter Gilles Manero by Bruno Montpied moves outside the surrealist movement (and includes a mention of the extraordinary painter and print-maker José Hernandez). Wrapping up the journal, are a number of useful reviews of recent works by Gilbert Garcin, Alain Joubert, Jorge Camacho, and the correspondence between Theodor Adorno and Elisabeth Lenk, among others.