{"product_id":"ready-to-articulate-nieves-publishing-mark-gonzales","title":"Ready To Articulate - Mark Gonzales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTucked in the heart of Zurich, NIEVES Press is a fiercely independent publishing house that lives at the intersection of art, skate, and street culture—right where FRET12 thrives. Known for its raw, zine-style books and collaborations with underground creators, NIEVES turns the analog page into a living, breathing artifact. Their minimalist approach isn’t about less—it’s about saying more with what matters. This is DIY ethos at its finest, and we’re here for every ink-stained second of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReady To Articulate By: Mark Gonzales\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe artworks crackle with movement fittingly – Gonzales is a dancer, in the tradition of Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, but on wheels. His teenage years in 1980s Los Angeles were spent traversing the streets, which, by proxy, became his moving canvas. He earned a reputation as a pioneer of modern skateboarding – a master, albeit one not bound by flawlessness or precision, but the anarchy afforded only after achieving true mastery. It was as if he haphazardly broke the laws of nature, causing time and space to bend to him, leaving a wake of influential agitation behind him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis art, like his poetry, is not separate from his skating. Gonzales’s canvases are filled with painterly technique honed over years of drawing and painting, but they also exhibit a shambolic quality; the works are precise and imprecise all at once. This particular body is inspired by the disappointment he felt when his business partner “sold out” in the early 1990s, the faces are bursting with bitterness. They are put-on fake smiles, cheerful in the face of misery and embarrassment. Years later, however, the harsh cynicism has softened, and the power of the smiles seems to have cracked the regret. Indeed, Gonzales seems to be saying, flowers, grown in even the harshest of conditions, can have an immutable healing power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mark Gonzales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOOK SPECS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003eIn Collaboration with \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/hvw8.com\/artist\/mark-gonzales\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHVW8\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e28 Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24.5 x 24.5 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eColor Offset\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst Edition 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-3-907179-50-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003eTitles by \u003cspan class=\"author\"\u003eMark Gonzales\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nieves.ch\/948\/instead_of_eros_avenged\"\u003eInstead of Eros Avenged\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nieves.ch\/5823\/going_to_love_you\"\u003eGoing to Love You\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.krookedskateboarding.com\/\" class=\"link\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.krookedskateboarding.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"info\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFRET12 BOOK SHELF\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0;\"\u003eDiscover a curated collection of books, zines, and journals from around the world — handpicked for those who live through music, design, subculture, and analog storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-top: 12px;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-magazines\" class=\"btn btn--large\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003e VIEW ALL BOOKS \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Nieves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49293054148726,"sku":"Book-003774","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1555\/4315\/files\/2026_ReadytoArticulate-1.jpg?v=1794519421","url":"https:\/\/www.fret12.com\/products\/ready-to-articulate-nieves-publishing-mark-gonzales","provider":"FRET12","version":"1.0","type":"link"}