Museum Rijswijk | Jap Sam Publishing
£23.00
Ian Berry’s new book, SPLENDID ISOLATION is out now and available to order online on ianberry.art - The book is a collaboration with publisher Jap Sam Books in The Netherlands with the Museum Rijswijk to coincide with the Solo Museum show of the same name.
It includes
· a forward by both Museum Rijswijk curator Diana Wind and Director Arnoud van Aalst
· 160 page paperback book
· Over 150 images in full colour (well, full of blue)
· Looks over some of his 15 years of making his artwork using only denim jeans
· Many images show detail shots of his work that have to be seen to be believed.
· Includes work from 2020 fully updated with Hotel California, the #iclapfor project and Stay Behind Closed Doors photo project as well as all the installations from around the world.
A page from the Splendid Isolation book showing Hotel California
The book was launched at the 2020 Virtual Art Book Fair (VABF) organized by Tokyo Art Book Fair (TABF) with Jap Sam. The fair was originally scheduled for Fall 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. It then debuted at the Museum shop at Museum Rijswijk and was popular with visitors. You can now get it here, online.
The book comes signed by the artist Ian Berry and you can also request a message to be sent. We can post around the world with the postages below, including a special launch offer.
Postage
· £2.50 to the UK (Free pre Christmas with FREESHIPPING code at check out)
· £8 within Europe (Half price with EUSHIPPING code) and to the rest of the world and £10.00 to the rest of the world (half price with HALFWORLD at check out) pre Christmas
About
Ian Berry has emerged as an exciting young British artist over the last decade. He has been making virtuous figurative paintings and installations of denim for over 15 years. He uses discarded jeans, cuts them up into pieces and sorts according to hue like a painter places his colour nuances to his palette. At first glance the work seems two-dimensional, but when you zoom in, you can see how different layers of denim are placed on top and over each other. The ‘paintings’ are in fact denim collages so perfectly put together. They are almost impossible to distinguish from a realistic painting. Ian Berry also makes three-dimensional denim installations, which have been on display on multiple continents and at museums.
Ian Berry is a socially committed artist. With his work he responds to topical developments in society. His work is made of denim not only because he likes the material, it is as well because the textile industry is one of the most polluting industries. In his work he asks attention for this. In 2019, Ian Berry was proclaimed one of the 50 most influential people in the denim industry in the world and had been named a top artist un 30 in the world in 2013.
This eponymous publication accompanies the first solo-exhibition of Berry in the Netherlands. Ian Berry | Splendid Isolation, Museum Rijswijk, November 29, 2020 – April 5, 2021.
Illustrated with numerous images that aim to convey the depth and texture of Berry’s work, which explores our urban environment and examines community issues, or the lack thereof. With this everyday material he portrays contemporary life, and for him there is no better medium to depict it than the material of our time, denim jeans.
Ian Berry (1984, Huddersfield UK) is based in East London. He is internationally known for his works made out of only pairs of jeans.
A spread from the book, Ian Berry, Splendid Isolation.
ISBN
978-94-92852-30-4
Graphic designer
Tim Ho @duotone.hk
Number of pages
160
Book size
24 x 24 cm
Binding
Paperback
Date of Release
29 November 2020
Language
English and Dutch
Ian and Elliott Berry’s #iclapfor is feature in the new book Splendid Isolation
With Thanks
Along with Museum Rijswijk and Jap Sam Books the book was made possible by the museum show principle sponsor Pepe Jeans London, along with Tencel, Famore Cutlery, Cone Denim and Tonello.
ABOUT Jap Sam Books, headed by Eleonoor Jap Sam, is an independent international publishing house based in the south of the Netherlands. Our publishing house publishes titles that explore developments in architecture, art, philosophy, design, photography and theory as well as the fields that touch them, such as urbanism, landscape, sociology and history. Jap Sam Books has been established to reflect, connect and respond to developments in these fields, by bringing out a range of critical and reflective books for an international audience. We believe in a multidisciplinary approach and cross-border thinking.The books that we publish are not only educational and inspirational, but also very beautifully designed, and all produced in close collaboration with our contributors.
