ケニヤ生まれのイギリス人陶芸家、マグダレン・オドゥンド(Magdalene Odundo)の作品集。2019年にイギリスで開催された展覧会「The Journey of Things」に伴い刊行された一冊。本書には、44点に及ぶ作品に加え、博物館学的に重要な品々や現代作家の作品を幅広く収録し、作者の制作活動が世界中から得た様々なインスピレーションによって支えられていることを示しています。オドゥンドの作品と歴史的作品が並ぶように構成され、鑑賞者が視覚的・触覚的に読み深めることができるようなブックデザインも素晴らしい一冊です。
The Journey of Things by Magdalene Odundo enters its fourth reprint—a result and testament to the book’s enduring resonance with long-standing and emerging audiences.
The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels, a large selection of museological and contemporary objects that reveal the range of global references that have informed her practice, alongside various texts including a conversation with Ben Okri. Comprising a series of interleaved sections in an organic flow which pairs and juxtaposes the historic and the contemporary, featuring works by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie, Jean Arp, as well as ancient vessels from Greece and Egypt, historic ceramics from Africa, Asia and Central America, and ritual objects from across the African continent.
The Journey of Things was originally published alongside the exhibition of the same name, led by Andrew Bonacina at The Hepworth Wakefield in Spring 2019.
- Pages: 184 Size: 180 x 240 mm Softcover Color, black and white Limited edition of 3,000 copies