CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/18/2017

A beautiful new book on Japanese artist Jiro Takamatsu

“I want to see what happens within the realm of art always in relation to reality,” Japanese artist Jiro Takamatsu wrote in 1977. “I want to see other artists’ works while making my own work. I want to see as directly as possible artistic inspirations from realities, artistic transformations of realities that happen around art. The basic method I have adopted is to think and treat a work not in the dimension of fiction or imagery particular to art, but in the dimension of real concrete being...” Compound (1972/2015) is reproduced from the beautiful new monograph from Inventory Press and Kayne Griffin Corcoran.