Alejandro Magallanes: Ordering the Chaos

Alejandro Magallanes 混乱有序

✦产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Hoaki

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 192页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8410650045

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8410650046

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 788 g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

✦内容简介——

本书介绍了国际知名的墨西哥平面设计师、插画家、诗人和艺术家亚历杭德罗·麦加拉内斯 (Alejandro Magallanes) 的广泛作品，包括海报、书籍插图和艺术作品，以及艺术家对其创作本质的思考。

正如作者亚历杭德罗·麦哲伦所说，这本英西双语专著是“一场混乱的整理练习”，旨在通过不断玩弄文字和图像，寻找“通往从未探索过的地方的新路径”。它分为五个部分，向读者介绍一个迷人的视觉世界，麦哲伦在其中“用文字来说明，用图像来写作”。在整本书的文字中，艺术家讨论了他的项目的多样性（书籍、拼贴画、照片、信件和插图），反思了他的图形风格，并思考所包含的插图是否脱离了原文，可以作为独立的、自主的创作，提出新的解读和意义。通过这些大量的作品，我们可以看到麦哲伦为重要公司创作插图和设计广告的过程总是在变化，这取决于印刷对象，也就是他要说明的文本。由此产生的图像可以是诗意的、聪明的、幼稚的、主流的，甚至有时是怪诞的。它们是一个成年人的不同视角的例子，这个成年人拒绝停止做一个孩子，他总是假装和玩耍，扭曲的想法、图像和文字可以成为我们记忆的一部分，并永远留在我们身边。

A book featuring the wide-ranging work of internationally renowned Mexican graphic designer, illustrator, poet and artist Alejandro Magallanes, including posters, book illustrations, and works of art, as well as the artist’s thoughts about the nature of his creations.

As the author Alejandro Magallanes’ puts it, this bilingual English and Spanish monography is “an exercise in ordering chaos,” which seeks to “intuit new paths that lead to places never explored before” in a ceaseless play with letters and images. It is divided into five sections that introduce the reader to a fascinating visual universe where Magallanes “illustrates with words and writes with images.” In texts throughout the book, the artist discusses the diverse nature of his projects (books, collages, photographs, letters and illustrations), reflects on his graphic style, and muses on whether the included illustrations, detached from their original text, function on their own as independent, autonomous creations that suggest new readings and meanings. Through this vast array of work, we can see how Magallanes’ process for creating illustrations and designing advertisements for important firms is always changing, depending on the printed object, that is, the text he is going to illustrate. The resulting images can be poetic, intelligent, childish, mainstream and even sometimes grotesque. They are examples of the different visions of an adult who refuses to stop being a child, one who makes believe and plays all the time, twisting ideas, images and words that can become part of our memory and stay with us forever.