#1 Benoit Ponty // U.B.C ✸ Top5
Benoit Ponty is graduate from the the Beaux-Arts de Paris and co-fondeur of Neufquatre Editions. Here is the detail of his top 5 :
✸ N°5 : « A final companion to books from The Simpson (2nd edition) » Edited by Olivier Lebrun and Published by Yellow Pages & Rollo Press (2018)
French graphic designer Olivier Lebrun follows on his previous publications documenting the books that appear in the popular cartoon television series with this anthology of more than 330 images and titles. All have been captured with a black-and-white animation screenshot and catalogued in alphabetical order. Ostensibly the final instalment of this highly personal project by Lebrun, this new, updated edition reflects countless painstaking hours spent scanning episodes, plus the contributions of a large community of fans and readers who provided tips over the years.
✸ N°4 : « Corinne Wasmuht Collages (1986–2001) » Edited by Klaus Gallwitz, Georg Frohner, Edith Schreiner and Published by Verlag For Moderne Kunst (2011)
This volume gathers 15 years of collage work by German artist Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964). Wasmuht’s collages are made from materials she collects on a daily basis — newspapers, magazines, labels and packaging. In one work, Wasmuht discovers rhyming shapes between a soldier and a Roman statue; others place actual events beside their counterparts in the movies.
✸ N°3 : « La Spezia Dentro » Edited from Matteo Signanini’s pictures and designed by Niccolo Hebel for Zine Tonic Editions (2020)
This zine printed in risograph traces one year of work inside La Spezia jail (Italy) from Matteo Signanini’s work : a local born photographer that worked as a volunteer inside it. During the year of 2016 he created the project “I’m not here” with the inmates of the Villa Andreini prison by holding a photography course. Through weekly shooting lessons and sharing of photographic material, he developed a project that would lead prisoners to create a collective story with photographs taken by them inside the structure. The photographs in this project are made with disposable black and white Ilford machines, developed and then digitized by Matteo.
✸ N°2 : « The collected fanzines » Edited by Harmony Korine in collaboration with Mark Gonzales Published by Drag City (2008)
Film director Harmony Korine, whose work includes “Gummo,” “Julien Donkey Boy,” and “Mister Lonely,” has also worked in the field of graphic art, releasing the books “A Crack Up at the Race Riots” and “Pass the Bitch Chicken” in the past decade. Before those books, he and fellow artist (and ex pro skater) Mark Gonzales put together limited run fanzines showcasing their bitingly satirical and wildly inappropriate collages and language pieces to be sold out of the Alleged and Andrea Rosen galleries in New York City. This edition contain replicas of all eight zines, from a time of innocence, exploration, experimentation, discovery, depression and hanging around.
✸ N°1: « Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec drawings » Edited from Erwan Bouroullec and Ronan Bouroullec work by Cornel Windlin and Published by JRPeditions (2013)
This volume unveils a little-known side of the daily studio work of acclaimed designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976): their drawing. Printed on newsprint and gorgeously designed, this chunky book has been put together from a volume of sketchbooks and drawings realized between 2004 and 2012, totaling more than 850 color and black-and-white works.
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