COMING SOON: ‘THE BIG SOMETHING’ BY EN IWAMURA

The Big Something is a limited-edition sculpture by Japanese artist En Iwamura. The work is cast in quartz sand and limited to only 20 sculptures in each of three colourways — blue, black and grey. The use of sand as a material gives each piece a distinctive tactile surface and weighty presence, making it feel like a small-scale original work, while the repeated lines across the surface echo the raked patterns found in traditional Zen Buddhist sand gardens. The Big Something is a three-dimensional interpretation of the 2D artwork created for our previous collaboration with Iwamura, Knots.

THE-ART-FORM MAGAZINE IS A LIMITED EDITION PUBLICATION ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS.

All the artists featured in The-Art-Form magazine have completed a form about art.

Each artist has answered the questions on the form in their own unique way, giving an insight into their work and working practice. Some of the artists have created drawings and original artwork in response to the questions.

In addition to completing the form, each artist is interviewed in more depth, with specific questions about their work.

‘KNOTS’ BY EN IWAMURA - AVAILABLE NOW!

‘Knots’ by En Iwamura is a gold foil emboss and clear foil deboss on paper. The gold foil embossing replicates the line work used on En Iwamura's sculptures, creating a unique optical effect when viewed from different angles. This is the first two-dimensional edition that En Iwamura has created.

"I hope to make a sculpture the same scale as 'Knots' one day. An unfamiliar object that suddenly appears in the middle of town, discovered by the people who live there. I always dream to achieve that unfamiliar encounter with my work." – En Iwamura.

‘ECHOHEAD’ BY MICHAEL REEDER

‘Echohead’ by Michael Reeder is a profile-cut, laser-etched wood edition, spray-painted in four different colourways. Each colourway is a limited edition of only 30, signed and numbered by the artist on the reverse. The edition is ready to hang directly to the wall, no frame required.

”A fractured signal, barely held together by memory and static. This figure once had a face, a voice, a name.... now lost in the noise. Echohead drifts between dimensions, broadcasting fragments of its former self, hoping someone, something, is still listening. Each transmission decays a little more, echoing from a place where identity loops, degrades and begins again.” – MICHAEL REEDER

‘I AM BUILT FROM THE MISTAKES I MADE’ BY GONGKAN

'I Am Built From The Mistakes I Made' is a 17 layer silkscreen print with a spot gloss varnish, printed by Goldmark Atelier.

"For 'I Am Built From The Mistakes I Made' I wanted to try something new. So I combined pencil lines into the work in a way that I have never done before. This technique also aligns with the concept that I create who I am from my mistakes." – Gongkan

THIS YEAR THE-ART-FORM WILL START TO PUBLISH LIMITED EDITIONS BY SOME OF THE ARTISTS WHO HAVE FEATURED IN THE MAGAZINE, OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS.

The first print release is by Michael Reeder, it’s a 23 colour silkscreen print that includes 3 fluorescent colours, plus 22 carat gold leaf and multiple varnish layers, beautifully printed by Goldmark Atelier.