DEAREST by Magali Reus

ロンドンを拠点に活動するオランダ人ビジュアルアーティスト、マガリ・レウス(Magali Reus)の作品集。

作者の「客体性(オブジェクトフッド)」に対する思考を本の形にした一冊。装丁はアムステルダムを拠点とするデザイナーのイルマ・ボーム(Irma Boom)が手がけており、作者の3つの新作シリーズ「Dearest」(2018年)「Empty Every Night」(2019年)、「Settings」(2019-2021年)をもとに、3冊の本をテープで留め、本文には様々な種類の紙を用い、特に透明感のある紙ではそのレイヤー感を利用して遊びを与えて効果的に見せるなど、非常に洗練された作りとなっており、コレクター必携とも言える、読者に没入感を与える作品集である。

現代における彫刻の在り方や表現に対する独自の見解に対する定評がある作者は、家庭的なものから工業的なもの、機能性から装飾性まで、多種多様な形式から得た影響や文脈をもとに、視覚的なディテールを集積し、重ね、魅力的なものとして発展させる作品を生み出している。

今、最も評価の高いグラフィックデザイナーのひとりであるイルマ・ボームのデザインが施された本書は、先述した作者を象徴する3点のシリーズの表現へと導いたソースや視覚イメージ、関係を明らかにすることで、創作に対する独自のアプローチを提示している。作者の作品とより近く、より親密に繋がることができる時間を与える空間として「本」の形が考え出され、3Dの技術的レンダリングや制作計画、実物大模型、サンプル、リサーチ写真などの種々の資料や、詳細を写したクローズアップ、作品の姿がかわるがわる紹介されている。作品、製作過程、研究資料を公にすることによって、作者はひとつの媒体から違う媒体へと移りゆくモチーフの循環や、ヒエラルキー、表現、制作システムに対する独自の視点、自然とテクノロジー、ポスト工業社会における人間の活動の影響に見られる均衡を探るその手法を、読者に読み解かせているのである。

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。

A collectible publication on Magali Reus' thinking of objecthood (an immersive and highly refined artist's book—three assembled volumes, different types of paper, transparency play on layers—based on three new series by the Dutch artist).

Renowned for her particular take on what contemporary sculpture can be and express, Magali Reus draws on a vast range of formal influences and references, from the domestic to the industrial, the functional to the decorative, creating works that evolve as a fascinating accumulation and layering of visual details.

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.

Born in 1981 in The Hague, London-based artist Magali Reus is one of the most acclaimed new voices in contemporary sculpture. Renowned for her interest in the relationship between mass-produced articles and the human body in the context of today's digital society, Magali Reus draws on a vast range of formal influences and references, from the domestic to the industrial, the functional to decorative, creating pieces that evolve as an accumulation and layering of sculptural details. Taking everyday objects as starting points, her work operates on a visual register as a formal configuration, but also as a choreography of emotional and physical experience. For her, objects like fridges, padlocks, seating, and street curbs are not seen only as facilitators of our everyday actions, but also as physical receptacles for our bodies. She is thus interested in positioning them not only as shells or providers, but as objects imbued with their own sense of personality. Detached from their surroundings and translated into immaculate, abstract forms they become uncanny and perplexing, acquiring a very different life, which is almost theatrical. Colliding the macro logic of daily architecture with the more metaphorical projections of a body inhabiting space, Magali Reus' practice focuses on the physical and psychic space of objecthood. 

by Irma Boom , Magali Reus

REGULAR PRICE ¥15,400  (tax incl.)

softcover
288 pages
240 x 320 mm
color
2024

published by JRP|EDITIONS

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