Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination Jean Pigozzi and originality

and originality

From abstract and interactive sculpture to furniture and collage

such as Barry Le Va

The sandpaper cover features flocked lettering (which Ruscha would revisit in his 1970 artist’s book Babycakes) and is bound with machine screws and hex nuts

as well as a booklet with an illustrated essay by Lane Relyea

Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination Jean Pigozzi and originalityThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. It features over forty paintings and works on paper made between 1965 and 1984 by Arakawa, one of the founding members of the Japanese avant garde collective Neo Dadaism Organizers. Combining words with highly schematic images suggestive of blueprints, the artist constructed systems and signs to highlight and