Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: JRP|EDITIONS
Language: English
ISBN-10: –
ISBN-13: 978-3-03764-570-3
Product Dimensions: 24 x 32 cm
Release Date: 2024
Price: sold
EDITOR(S): Frederik Pesch, Irma Boom
AUTHOR(S): Anthony Huberman, Philomena Epps, Sean
Burns
Designed by Irma Boom, one of the most prestigious graphic designers active today, this artist’s book offers a unique approach to art making through the unveiling of the sources, visual imagery, and connections that gave birth to the realization of three emblematic series by Magali Reus: “Dearest,” 2018; “Empty Every Night,” 2019; and “Settings,” 2019–2021. Conceived as a space where the viewer can take their time to get a closer, more intimate connection to her work, the publication alternates views of the works, close–up details, and various materials—from a 3D technical rendering and production calculations to mock ups, samples, and research photography. Sharing her production, process, and research archive, Reus allows the reader to decipher the circulation of motifs from one medium to another, her specific take on the ideas of hierarchy, representation, and systems of production, and how she explores the tensions between nature, technology, and the impact of postindustrial human activity. The book gives full credit to her ongoing thinking on objecthood and how the objects and forms she creates take on a strange, disobedient agency. Made of three separate volumes, featuring different paper and taped together, this collectible publication is itself a powerful object.
Three contributions by art critic and curator Anthony Huberman (“Leather and Logistics”), writer and art historian Philomena Epps (“The Other Hour”), and artist and writer Sean Burns (“A Love Affair”) analyze the artist’s practice through art historical and literary perspectives.
本書は、作者のいまもなお続く「客体性」に関する思考と、作者の作り出すオブジェや形の奇妙かつ反抗的な作用に最大の誉れを授けるものである。独立した3冊からなり、様々な種類の紙を用いてひとつにまとめられた本書は、それ自体が力を持つオブジェなのである。
アート評論家でキュレーターのアンソニー・ヒューバーマン（Anthony Huberman）による「Leather and Logistics」、作家で美術史家のフィロメナ・エップス（Philomena Epps）による「The Other Hour」、アーティストで作家のショーン・バーンズ（Sean Burns）による「A Love Affair」と、美術史的、文学的視点から作者の活動を分析した3作の寄稿を収録。
「イルマ・ボーム・オフィス（Irma Boom Office）」のフレデリック・ペッシュ（Frederik Pesch）とイルマ・ボームが編集を手がける。