Cariño
Francesc Ruiz
2/5 series
Captures éditions
French, Spanish and English
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Housed in a vanilla envelope with other publications from the 2/5 series (2020–2022)
420 x 594 mm
2022
ISBN 9782491549183
Francesc Ruiz decided to design a truck that folds in on itself, as if it were one of the Transformer robots or the image of the 1:1 scale bus of Mason Williams. The author’s interest in the world of logistics, distribution and affections, makes him pose this intervention as if it were a letter of love and friendship. The author reproduces one of the trucks of the Spanish moving company Cariño, a name that besides being a toponym of a Galician town, can also be translated as affection or sweettie. The truck is driven by a yellow heart-shaped emoticon that is nothing more than a synthesis of the good things we receive by mail, a microdose of serotonin, a generic cupid’s crush that serves to cheer up our lives in these strange times.
(Source: https://captures-editions.com/en/produit/2-5-copie)
About the Artist
Francesc Ruiz’s work investigates narrative models based on comic language, popular culture idioms and their distribution in public formats such as books, billboards, advertising, magazines and the internet. Ruiz creates a personal visual language by generating a juxtaposition of images and texts in deliberated sequences in order to produce fantastic/fantasmagoric social maps of action. Fascinated by urban sub-cultures, Ruiz reflects on how collective and individual subjectivities are constructed by their local contexts, gender or class. Ruiz focuses on the space where subjects inhabit their everyday life and therefore often starts from autobiographical experience. His drawings, photographs, printed materials and installations explore aspects of the social experience and of a local unconscious. For the Bulletin Board, Francesc Ruiz has produced Coverage, which resembles a collage of different magazines covers that are drawn and designed by the artist. Ordered intentionally, the covers construct a narrative based on the following categories:
https://www.instagram.com/ruiz_francesc
(Source: https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/6-francesc-ruiz-coverage)
About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
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