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Roma Publications, 2011ISBN 978-90-77459-55-3 Dutch and English 6.7 x 9.4 inches / 96 p. / paperback €13,50 No mirror can guard you is a collection of short autobiographical texts written from 2001 to 2007, that have been carefully selected and revised for this edition. What remains after this process is a sparse but resonant prose. When he was twenty, Nickel decided to keep a record of the occurrences he believed would leave a mark on him. This could be an offhand conversation with a parent or a confrontation with a friend; a comical observation on the street or the insecurity of being a young artist. No mirror can guard you was designed by Roger Willems. The cover illustration is by Marc Nagtzaam. It was translated from the Dutch by the author. |
Fonds BKVB, 2010ISBN 978-90-76936-24-6 English only 8.7 x 11.2 inches / 148 p. + 32 p. / paperback with additional stitched-in reader €29,95 Sideways: Reflections on Changing Contexts in Art is the result of an intensive group process. For two and a half years, the authors met to discuss the question: how is an artist influenced by moving from one cultural context to another? The book consists of six self-contained artist and author contributions. Nickel kept a journal during his travels in Iran, which centers around his perspective as an ‘outsider’. The book also features an autobiographical essay of his. Sideways was part of the programme ‘Indendant for Cultural Diversity’ of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts and was initiated by independent filmmaker Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi. Hans Gremmen made the book design, which was selected for the Dutch Best Designed Books 2010. |
 Roma Publications, 2008ISBN 978-90-77459-33-1 Dutch and English 5.5 x 8.1 inches / 2 x 48 p. / paperback €13,50 A short fiction set in the Cold War era, Plateau features two scientists stationed on the Arctic drift ice for a year. “Except for the stars there were no reference points here: no hills, no mainland, no vegetation — nothing that counterbalanced the uniform character of this frozen ocean landscape.” The question how the expedition members should relate to this landscape forms the heart of a discussion which seems to be driving them apart. Plateau was designed by Roger Willems and edited by Arnoud Holleman and Cathelijne Hoorn. Gwenneth Boelens contributed the images. |
Self-issued, 2008ISBN 978-90-813733-1-9 Dutch and English 4.5 x 7 inches / 328 p. / hardcover We would come to doubt everything. And almost everyone would come to doubt is a pure combination of documentary photographs by Wytske van Keulen and a short fiction by Nickel van Duijvenboden. For years, Wytske followed a far relative, an old man leading the life of a recluse in northern Spain. In spite of the intensity of her empirical and at times intimate photographs, his motives for choosing this life remain enigmatic. Nickel’s short story evolved through the associations evoked by this imagery. Though reality and fiction share some parallels, the outcome is totally different. |
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2003Dutch only 6.1 x 8.9 inches / 48 p. / paperback De grote afwezige (The Grand Absence) is a collection of seven essays that Nickel wrote on the occasion of his graduation as a photographer. Most of the essays analyse the working of photography in a somewhat humourous fashion. The book opens with a letter to the dead inventors of photography. In other essays, various attempts are described to achieve perfectly objective photographs – attempts that are obviously bound to fail. The book also includes two essays of greater personal urgency. One is a polemic against a school of Dutch photographers who apply melodrama to their pictures in order to feign emotional intensity. The other is the title essay, an imaginary phone conversation between a photography graduate and his father. The son has put his pictures on display for the final exhibition, but his father cannot come. Can a verbal explanation of the photographs undo his father’s absence? The latter essay is available in English here. |