Edition
English, Spanish, French
2018
ISBN: 978-3-03764-514-7
Cover semi flexible, 26 cm x 19 cm
216 pages
86 reproductions
Special aspects: 3 foldouts
Published by JRP Ringier and KBB
Authors: Mario Bellatín, Elizabeth R. Johnson, Bruno Jourdain
Edited by Sigismond de Vajay
Conceived by artist/curator Sigismond de Vajay, this artist’s book combines 70 of his drawings alongside commissioned essays by Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, French biologist and glaciology researcher Bruno Jourdain, and geography and biotechnology expert Elizabeth R. Johnson. Together, thanks to their intertwined dialogue around reality, fiction, science, knowledge, and the power of artistic approaches, they express a subjective vision of our changing times. Through his pencil and watercolour drawings, produced between 2012 and 2017, Vajay explores themes and motifs such as post-industrial landscapes, endangered natural spaces, and lonesome machines, as well as complex human, natural, and architectural organizations. Some drawings are short stories to decipher, while others manage to show, in a single stunning image, the complexity of our times and our future. The authors chosen propose narratives—the adventures of the “Book Man”; “The Amazing Life of a Tiny H2180 Water Molecule”; the “Stories of Life and Warfare Beneath the Skin of the Earth”—which extend and enhance the drawings, thanks to time-travel, alternative realities, and troubling futuristic tales.
Price: 45 USD
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Photo credit : Gian Paolo Minelli
