XAMAX is an artist's book by the Swiss artist Fabian Boschung (b. 1983) that borrows its title and graphic identity, bold red-and-black stripes, from Neuchâtel Xamax, the football club of the city where he lives and works, turning a local sporting emblem into a study in pattern and appropriation.
Published in 2017 by TSAR Éditions in Vevey, Switzerland, the 48-page paperback carries the club's stripe motif and wordmark across its cover in place of any imagery of the team, treating the crest and colorway as a found visual system to be isolated, repeated, and re-staged as abstract composition, characteristic of Boschung's broader practice of appropriating forms and iconography from official emblems and vernacular material alike.
Boschung trained in graphic design in La Chaux-de-Fonds before studying visual art at HEAD Genève. He works across sculpture, painting, neon, and photography, has exhibited at CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel and elsewhere since 2010, and is represented by Galerie Lange + Pult in Zurich. Xamax is the second of his two artist's books, following Feeling (2013), his first monograph, and shares its deadpan, design-forward approach to found imagery.
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Disambiguation check: 'Xamax' is also the name of the Neuchâtel Xamax football club this record is for Fabian Boschung's 2017 artist's book, which deliberately appropriates the club's red-and-black stripe branding as its subject (confirmed via Printed Matter catalog #50127, Motto Distribution's TSAR Éditions publisher listing, and exposition-format.ch artist bio). Boschung's official site, fabianboschung.com, is listed as his personal website by multiple independent sources (CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel, fromnewithlove.ch) but currently returns HTTP 503 from a domain-parking service (gname.net) rather than a live site as of 2026-07-27, so it could not be used as the verified authors[0].url the CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel institutional artist profile was used instead per the no-live-official-site fallback rule. Sources gave conflicting graduation years for his HEAD Genève degree (2009 vs. 2012) the exact year was omitted from the description rather than asserted. Printed Matter's product metadata lists 'Julien Fischer' as an associated credit (data-product-brand field) with an unconfirmed role, possibly the cover photographer not included as a contributor without confirmation. Language marked French per the publisher's home market and the book's Swiss-French (Vevey/Neuchâtel) context the book is largely visual/title-text with minimal running text, so this is a light inference, not confirmed against an inside page.
