Category: small book

An unexpected collection of over 100 images spanning the history of representations, Jeux de mains (sculpted, molded, photographed, or painted) is like a treasure chest of this marvelous five-fingered tool.

Most artists have, at some point, represented the universal symbol of creation which is the hand. Many of them have also chosen the hand as a recurring pattern in their work. This observation inspired Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi — editor and founder of Chose Commune — to gather the works that caught her attention in a book, following no thematic or chronological order. The selection was made in collaboration with Stephen Ellcock, who has made a name for himself over the past few years for bringing the art gallery directly to people with his glorious collection of images which he shares everyday on Instagram and Facebook. From Pablo Picasso to Helena Almeida, from Louise Bourgeois to Alberto Giacometti, from John Baldessari to Francesca Woodman, and comprising a multitude of treasures from the ancient ages to documents from popular imagery, Jeux de mains confronts and mixes famous, emerging and anonymous artists from a wide-range of practices. The result is a collection of more than a hundred images compiled intuitively in this book.

Note: This is a French-folded book. The pages are not meant to be cut. By gently part-opening the pages and looking inside, you will discover information about each of the artworks.

List of artists:

ALBARRÀN CABRERA — ALBIN-GUILLOT  Laure — ALMEIDA Helena —  ÁLVAREZ BRAVO Manuel —  AUBÖCK Carl — BALDESSARI John — BALLEN Roger — BARK Jared — BAUGHAN Rosa —BERNHARD Ruth — BLUMENFELD Erwin — BORREMANS Michaël — BOUCHER Pierre — BOURGEOIS Louise  — BUONAROTTI Michelangelo — CAHUN Claude — CALLE Sophie — CARAFA Giovanni — CHIEH-JEN Chen — CLARK Harold T. — CUDDON Katie — DE BLAUWER Katrien — DE MOÜY Iris — DEGAS Edgar — DIEULEFILS Pierre — DILL Lesley —DYKE William — EDGERTON Harold — GHIRRI Luigi — GIACOMETTI Alberto — GIBSON Ralph — GILL Simryn — GORDON Daniel — GUITTARD Alice — GUSTON Philip — GUÉRARD Henri Charles — HIROSHIGE Utagawa — HOLBEIN (Le Jeune) Hans — HOPPÉ Emil Otto — INGRES Jean-Auguste-Dominique — ISHIUCHI MIYAKO — ITURBIDE Graciela — JEEWON KIM Shantal — KAWAUCHI Rinko — KEITH ROACH Clementine — KERTÉSZ André — LEPPÄLÄ Anni — LOTAR Eli — L’ADMIRAL Jan — MAURER Dora — MELOTTI Fausto — MICHALS Duane — MINKINNEN Arno — MOHOLY-NAGY Lazslo — MORELLI Giovanni  — MUNARI Bruno — MUÑOZ Oscar — NADAR Félix — NESHAT Shirin — ONES Fiona — O’BRIEN John — PARADIN Claude — PESCE Gaetano — PICASSO Pablo — PINARD Guillaume — PÉTROVITCH Françoise — RAY Man — RICHTER Gerhard — ROCHAS-PÀRIS Lia — RODIN Auguste — SCHIELE Egon — SHOVLIN Jamie — STEINBERG Saul — STIEGLITZ Alfred — SUDA Issei — TARABELLA Philippe — UEMATSU Keiji — VON MENZEL Adolf Frierdrich Erd-mann — VRELANT Willem — WAESE Alice — WATSON Claire — WHITE CO H.C WILHELMUS COUWENBERG Henricus — WOODMAN Francesca — YOGANANTHAN Vasantha

Like a gentle window into the play of emotions, Little Passing Thoughts is filled with drawings to meditate, escape, or simply smile.

Orfeo Tagiuri scribbles day and night on a small notebook. He tears away some of the drawings, to throw in the bin because they’re not good enough, to give away to friends — to have a laugh or to remember a moment — or to sell to a stranger who shared the exact same feeling or thought, for what Orfeo draws with a black pen are universal emotions. This pocket-sized book, compiling over 350 drawings, is meant to be carried everywhere and opened just when one needs to take a break, get inspired, and breathe.

“Each of these drawings is fished out from the river of little passing thoughts. I don’t know where they come from but sometimes I take the time to gently scoop them up and set them down. They are a great joy, relief and meditation to make. I hope you can feel that” — Orfeo Tagiuri

Biography

Orfeo Tagiuri (born in 1991 in Brookline, MA, USA) lives and works in London. Orfeo’s practice spans from painting and drawing to performance, film, woodcarving, animation, and music. The artist has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Sapling Gallery, London (2021), MACRO, Rome (2021), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018) and at Fiorucci Art Trust’s Volcano Extravaganza (2016). In 2020 Orfeo was nominated for Bloomberg New Contemporaries award.

Through her extraordinary collection of still frames captured from the videos she records every day, Cintia Tortosa Santisteban explores the daily life of a rice field and the passersby she observes from the fifth floor of her balcony.

Everyday, Cintia Tortosa Santisteban films from the balcony of her small fifth-floor Japanese apartment—it’s like a ritual. Below, a rice field unfolds along with the comings and goings of passersby, farmers, and children. On foot, by bike, or by car. Cintia observes this daily life as though it were a series, made up of fleeting and unique moments that reveal the hidden details of days that follow one another without ever being the same.

Since 2021, Cintia has been collecting videos of this landscape she watches over. From these recordings, she has created still frames that capture the changing seasons, shifting colours, and recurring figures who pass along the rice field—figures you think you recognize without knowing their stories.

Screenshots from a series of videos about a rice field and its surroundings, Cintia Tortosa Santisteban’s first book, features around a hundred images selected from an archive of over a thousand videos. It offers a small window into the theater of everyday life.

Biography

Cintia Tortosa Santisteban (born in 1989) is a Spanish photographer based in Kanagawa, Japan. Her formal education is in English literature, linguistics and education at the University of Granada (Spain) and Galway (Ireland). She is currently working as an English teacher in Japan. She has no formal background in photography or the arts. She has learned through books, the Internet and friends. She has been interested in visual arts since she was a kid but it wasn’t until the end of 2019 that she started taking it more seriously. 

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.

London-based artist Coco Capitán (born 1992, Spain) earned a BA in Fashion Photography at the London College of Fashion followed by an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. She  works  across  a  range  of  genres  including  photography,  painting,  mural,  text,  video  and  installation.  Capitán has  shot  campaigns  for  world-renowned  fashion  brands  and  magazines  including Vogue,  Dazed, Gucci, APC and Mulberry. Her first solo institutional exhibition was held at the Daelim Museum in South Korea (2018). Her second is in March 2019 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.