Utilising simple geometric forms and vibrant colours, Raphaela Simon paints everyday objects, playing with figurative representation and pure abstraction. Her sculptures explore similar themes: carefully staged soft mannequins further allude to her fascination with the ordinary.
For the artist’s first large-scale monograph, we developed a cover that interpreted one of Simon’s paintings, screenprinting a light blue check pattern – one of the artist’s signature colours – on a book cloth. The layout of the works are surrounded by abundant white space, offering a rhythmic overview of the works, which is interrupted only by full bleed details. Installation shots, printed on thin glossy paper, live instead on a more dynamic grid. This tension between formality and anomaly, which echoes aspects of the artist's work, continues through the essays, presented in a traditional layout but with an unusually large typeface.
Photography: Ed Park
