Mark Ryden, Pinxit

ISBN 978-3-8365-2066-9

издательство: Taschen
год: 2011
кол. страниц: 366 - Твёрдый переплет + Коробка -  1000 пронумерованных копий на весь мир, каждая с автографом фотографа.
кол. иллюстраций: -
Язык: English
размер: 375×500mm - XL формат

О книге: 

Лимитированная серия. 1000 пронумерованных копий на весь мир, каждая с автографом фотографа.

Смешивая темы поп-культуры с техникой напоминающей старых мастеров, Марк Риден создал непохожий стиль, который разрывает границы между высоким и низким искусством. Его работы впервые привлекли внимание в 1990ых, когда он выступил в новом стиле, называемом поп-сюрреализм, оставляя за собой массу последователей. Он использует основы сюрреалистического подхода, выбирая объект рисования и связывая его культурным подтекстом.

Язык Райдена, меняясь от загадочного до притягательного, находится на тонкой грани между ностальгическими клише и тревожными архетипами. Соблазненный его чрезмерно детализированными и тщательно отшлифованными поверхностями, зритель сталкивается лицом к лицу с детской невинностью и непостижимыми уголками души. Неуловимая тревога поселилась в его картинах; работа также мучительно красива как и намек на темное психическое дно культурного китча.

В мире Райдена ангелоподобные девочки общаются со странными и загадочными фигурами.

In Ryden’s world cherubic girls rub elbows with strange and mysterious figures. Ornately carved frames lend the paintings a baroque exuberance that adds gravity to their enigmatic themes. Complex in its arcane and idiosyncratic subject matter, Ryden’s work can leave no viewer unmoved. Pinxit, whose title refers to the Latin term meaning “painted by,” is organized by the themes of Ryden’s major exhibitions—The Meat Show, Bunnies & Bees, The Tree Show, and so on—and includes collected essays by Yoshitomo Nara, Carlo McCormick, and others, and a new essay by culture critic Kristine McKenna. Ryden’s paintings and drawings are reproduced using the finest technique available, and over a dozen of the paintings are foldouts that open to a staggering 150 cm (59 inches) across.

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Fuzzy bunnies, big-eyed girls, meat, magic, and mystery
Mark Ryden’s carnival of curiosities

Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, “Pop Surrealism,” dragging a host of followers in his wake. He has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.

Ryden’s vocabulary ranges from cryptic to cute, treading a fine line between nostalgic cliché and disturbing archetype. Seduced by his infinitely detailed and meticulously glazed surfaces, the viewer is confronted with the juxtaposition of the childhood innocence and the mysterious recesses of the soul. A subtle disquiet inhabits his paintings; the work is achingly beautiful as it hints at darker psychic stuff beneath the surface of cultural kitsch. In Ryden’s world cherubic girls rub elbows with strange and mysterious figures. Ornately carved frames lend the paintings a baroque exuberance that adds gravity to their enigmatic themes. Complex in its arcane and idiosyncratic subject matter, Ryden’s work can leave no viewer unmoved.

Pinxit, whose title refers to the Latin term meaning “painted by,” is organized by the themes of Ryden’s major exhibitions—The Meat Show, Bunnies & Bees, The Tree Show, and so on—and includes collected essays by Yoshitomo Nara, Carlo McCormick, and others, and a new essay by culture critic Kristine McKenna. Ryden’s paintings and drawings are reproduced using the finest technique available, and over a dozen of the paintings are foldouts that open to a staggering 150 cm (59 inches) across.



Many books have been published on Mark Ryden before, but none like this large-format monograph, released in a boxed Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by the artist; and also available in an Art Edition of only 50 copies, which come with an artwork. This sweeping retrospective brings together nearly two decade’s worth of Mark Ryden’s paintings and works on paper, broadening the horizons of his uncanny universe and bringing it to the world, one big page at a time.

Collector’s Edition – No. 51–1,050
Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, each signed by Mark Ryden
Printed on archival-quality paper
Quarter-bound book with leather spine
Front cover features gold-relief embossing crafted by the master printers at Pressure Printing
Comes in a clamshell box covered in cloth fabric
Also available in an Art Edition of 50 copies with a silk screen print


The artist:
Mark Ryden received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including a retrospective Wondertoonel at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle and Pasadena Museum of California Art, and in the exhibition The Artist’s Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.