Description
Fine art print of illustration “Mínimo Múltiplo Comum n°4” part of the book “Mínimo Múltiplo Comum”, by Raquel Matsushita
The work is sent inside a rigid folder handcrafted specifically for it.
Dimensions: 29,7 x 42 cm
Series of 20
About the book
Here is a debut like the rising sun, vigorous, on a stupidly expected day: Mínimo Múltiplo Comum. Mínimo: because it groups together a set of short stories, cutting in their endings. Because it says the most with its few words and its immense silences. Because the sentences, brief but forceful, quickly set the scene for the plots that immediately suck our attention. Because, at the very least, it brings a new voice to the Brazilian literary scene. Multiplo: because it reveals yet another skill of Raquel Matsushita: that of creating narratives for the adult reader, adding to her talent as an award-winning designer (her editorial projects are beautiful) and to her sensitivity as an author of children's works. And, above all, because the stories show a varied human spectrum - fathers, mothers, uncles, grandparents, friends, lovers, caught in their most ordinary days from the perspective of inevitable (and, at times, brutal) changes. Comum: because the stories are based on what is central to the human condition - feelings of possession, disenchantment, betrayal, everyday struggles (both prosaic and profound), and, equally, moments of communion, contentment, ecstasy, and high erotic voltage. Mínimo Múltiplo Comum: salt for the cold and insipid days of our literature.
João Anzanello Carrascoza
Editora/seal: Alta Books
About the illustration
The work is part of a sequence of silent and abstract pages that introduce and close the book Mínimo Múltiplo Comum. Images of skin textures, hair and body folds that sometimes seem to become landscape, where the micro of the skin pores revealed by the technique chosen by the artist, also become macro. In these images, Raquel used the inked body pressed onto the paper as a technique, using the body itself as a stamp.
About the artist
RAQUEL MATSUSHITA was born and lives in São Paulo. She is a partner at the firm Entrelinha Design, founded in 2001. She has won two Jabutis, the National Library Literary Award, the National Foundation for Children's and Young Adult Books (FNLIJ), the ADG Graphic Design Biennial, and Image of the Book, among others. She is the author of the book Fundamentals of Graphics for Conscious Design and seven children's books. Mínimo Múltiplo Comum is her first book of short stories for adult readers.
About Fine Art Printing
These are those created with techniques and materials that use the most rigorous criteria today to achieve an impression with museum longevity.
The papers are 100% cotton. The inks, which are made of mineral pigments, are not soluble in water, therefore they do not fade. And the color fidelity, by using RGB, is much greater than common printing.
A work printed in fine art, therefore, deserves to be signed and numbered, and can last a lifetime.
