Category: notebooks

A tender visual diary spanning ten years, offering glimpses into the artist’s everyday life through drawings inspired by nature, gardening, and her close-knit community.

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck has been drawing in sketchbooks for as long as she can remember, in the manner of a diary to which she confides her everyday life. A daily practice that mirrors the tender care she gives to her garden, a vibrant place that plays an essential role in her life and artistic practice.

In these sketchbooks, shapes and colours intermingle in a delicate and joyful harmony. It’s her intimate world that Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck reveals in her drawings, many of which are created en plein-air in just a few minutes. The simplicity of grey pencil strokes meets field flowers held in one hand and where familiar faces meet small animals, like Lemon, the canary with whom she lives.

To delve into ten years of notebooks, kept from 2014 to 2024, is to encounter the abundant and multifaceted work of an artist who invites us to observe the ordinary with an insatiable appetite.

An in-depth conversation between Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi completes the selection of drawings.

A tender visual diary spanning ten years, offering glimpses into the artist’s everyday life through drawings inspired by nature, gardening, and her close-knit community.

Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck has been drawing in sketchbooks for as long as she can remember, in the manner of a diary to which she confides her everyday life. A daily practice that mirrors the tender care she gives to her garden, a vibrant place that plays an essential role in her life and artistic practice.

In these sketchbooks, shapes and colours intermingle in a delicate and joyful harmony. It’s her intimate world that Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck reveals in her drawings, many of which are created en plein-air in just a few minutes. The simplicity of grey pencil strokes meets field flowers held in one hand and where familiar faces meet small animals, like Lemon, the canary with whom she lives.

To delve into ten years of notebooks, kept from 2014 to 2024, is to encounter the abundant and multifaceted work of an artist who invites us to observe the ordinary with an insatiable appetite.

An in-depth conversation between Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi completes the selection of drawings.

Coco Capitan continues her exploration of writing as a vital gesture. Words on Paper brings together her ironic and intimate aphorisms — delicate fragments of fleeting thoughts.

Words on Paper presents itself as the follow-up to If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes (2019). This new book brings together Coco Capitán’s recent notes, still tinged with irony and sometimes accompanied by sketches. Every day, she records her words, moods, questions, and impressions on a variety of surfaces, with an almost compulsive spontaneity.

Caught in the moment or crafted as true poems, her aphorisms appear as well on a green-checked napkin as on the pristine page of a notebook. The words are scribbled, crossed out, circled, underlined, and sometimes accompanied by a date or heading, revealing the time and place of their creation.

Unlike If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes, Words on Paper includes full-colour pages showing the original surfaces from which these writings emerged, offering the reader an immersive glimpse into the artist’s creative process.

In this collection of stories scribbled on paper, Coco Capitán captures her spontaneous thoughts. Her handwritten typography, featuring inverted letters, crossings-out, and annotations, takes shape in a world tinged with humor and irony.

“If you’ve seen it all, close your eyes” presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán’s handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts – everywhere, all the time – often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán’s writings grant an insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony. She combines the serious with the mundane as she shares in her first text-based book social, metaphorical or sentimental moments with her witty tone and distinctive hand.