Fancy a Picasso and Mattise in barcode? Recently making an appearance in elles@centrepompidou at the Centre Pompidou Paris, Irma Boom’s light boxes of colour derive from the famous and recognisable artworks of modernist painters.
To say that Irma Boom [irmaboom.nl] is known for her book design would be perhaps an understatement. Her work has been acclaimed as some of the most beautiful book design ever created; specifically the work ‘Weaving as Metaphor’ which expounds on the creations of weaving artist Sheila Hicks. There is a worthy discussion of the book on bookofjoe.com and book-by-its-cover.com.
The light-boxes touch on an interesting dialogue between art and literature and the streaming of the two into a techno-cratic sustainability-conscious and commercially viable climate. Robert Norton’s dreamlike and synthesized harmonies twinkle in the midst of it all.
To mythologize this would be to call it a prototype for a super-’Kindle’ version of the the art world; a designer’s workmanship supplying up to the minute data that perveys the artist’s work, in some semblance of absorbable matter, immediately to your eyes? Is this the contemporary version of Impressionist Art? Are contemporary commercial designers today’s version of Impressionists?
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- Picasso/ Extrait du DVD Colourcalm ‘BY DESIGN’ http://www.irmaboom.nl/
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- Matisse / Extrait du DVD Colourcalm ‘BY DESIGN’ http://www.irmaboom.nl/