drawing together

何を描いたか見えないように、つなぎ目だけが見えるように紙を折り、次の人へ渡す。それを数人で繰り返し完成した想定外の作品を楽しむ、通称“優美な屍骸”と呼ばれる遊び(cadavre exquis)にフォーカス。ロンドンのサーペンタインギャラリーにてアートディレクターを務める、Hans Ulrich Obrist(ハンス・オブリッヒ・オブリスト)が、近年様々なアーティストと共に遊び続けた結果の作品たちを200個収録。

"A thinking flowerpot, a Casio lizard or an eyeball-shaped hammock: "Cadavre exquis" is the name of the game with folded paper that the surrealists once played. Several people work together on a drawing, without the other players having seen the previous part of the work.

All we have to do is fold the paper and amuse ourselves with the collective nonsense. Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has played this game over and over again in recent years - with Dan Graham, Katharina Grosse, Pippilotti Rist, Gerhard Richter and many more. This has resulted in around 200 such scribbles. The book celebrates hand drawing in the age of voice messages. And above all, it is a call not only to look at the drawings, but to play the game yourself. Draw, fold, draw, fold, draw, fold!“

31 × 23 cm, Softcover, 2022