Video: Book face Numabookface
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For many book lovers, books are not just paper sheets of paper bound together with text printed on them. They are best friends, the main advisors and helpers in life, a window to another world full of new places, new people, new emotions. It is this attitude towards books that illustrates installation "Numabookface" from Nam Design Studio and Numabooks Publishing House.
In recent years, artists have discovered a new material from which they can create their sculptures, paintings and installations. Or rather, not so new. Books, as such, are already several millennia old. But only now they began to be treated not only as a storehouse of knowledge, but also as a material. Consider, for example, book carving by Kylie Stillman, book sculpture by Bronia Sawyer, or an alphabet made from books by Sonia Lamera.
The guys from the Nam design studio also created an unusual installation "Numabookface" from books. Moreover, not from random books, but from volumes released by the publishing house Numabooks. Another name for this installation is “A Fantasy in Life”.
The fact is that the publishing house Numabooks is engaged in the release of books in the style of science fiction and fantasy. And the installation "A Fantasy in Life" is an unusual, but very clear illustration of the fact that this kind of literature tells not about such unreal worlds, not about such unreal people and other creatures. The heroes of the books have exactly the same problems as real people, they have exactly the same joys (well, unless there is also the opportunity to shoot blasters and soar in zero gravity), they are quite real people.
"Numabookface" is made from three and a half thousand old books, gathering dust on the shelves of the Numabooks publishing house and waiting for the moment to see people. This installation will last until July 31, after which the books from it will be sold to everyone at the lowest, penny prices. After all, the main purpose of the existence of books is for people to read them, and not for them to lie in warehouses for years or be part of other works of art.
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