Contributor interviews Virgil Abloh * Hannah Barry * David
Blaine * Benedict Cumberbatch * Jeremy Deller * Jefferson Hack *
Chris Heath * Kaspar Holten * Bjarke Ingels * JaQuel Knight * Charm
LaDonna * Aicha McKenzie * Sam Mendes * Hans Ulrich Obrist * Gareth
Pugh * Alice Rawsthorn * Carlo Rovelli * Julie Taymor * Neil
Tennant * Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) and La Mar Taylor * Lyndsey
Turner * Keith Warner * Willie Williams * Anna Wintour
Project Case Studies Beyonce * Chimerica * Memory Palace *
Mirror Maze * Ugly Lies the Bone * U2
Es Devlin creates large-scale sculptures that combine light, music and language. She has created stage sculptures for Beyonce, The Weeknd, U2, The Royal Opera House, National Theatre, La Scala and The Met Opera, as well as the 2022 Super Bowl featuring Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, and the 2012 London Olympic Closing Ceremony. She was the subject of the Netflix documentary 'Abstract: the Art of Design', and has been awarded multiple Olivier, Tony and Emmy awards, as well as an Ivor Novello award and a CBE.
'Modern Britain’s answer to Leonardo da Vinci' - Sunday Times
'Category-defying... An exquisitely produced and immersive artwork
in itself, containing photographs, texts, foldouts, pullouts,
translucent overlays and cutout pages that reflect the intricacy
and imaginative extent of Devlin’s processes, from concept to final
iteration' - The New York Times
'Sculptural … as much art object as art book, the 900-page tome
gorgeously layers stories and interviews, pull-outs of sketches,
playing with cut-outs over images as it maps each set from concept
to realisation' - Vogue
'An exquisitely designed gift book that keeps giving. Nine hundred
pages open to offer fold-out sculptures, fragile little paintings,
paper cuts, mechanical models, mirrors. They distil in miniature
the genre-bending kinetic creations of the artist and designer who
has set the stage for Beyoncé and Adele; experimental opera and the
London Olympics; Trevor Nunn and AI poetry recitals' - Jackie
Wullschlager, Best Books of the Year, Financial Times
'Hefty, multitextured … an interactive physical experience,
requiring the reader to unfold sections, overlay others, skim and
delve. Devlin’s aim with her work is “to restructure the human
imagination”, and this book is part of that project … Amazement is
her modus operandi – “The role of artists is to amaze people into
changing their minds” – but she always returns to the primary text
for her inspiration. Now she has created a primary text that will
serve as inspiration for the rest of us' - Times LUXX
'The book reads like one of [Devlin's] stage sets; that is to say,
it’s an experience. Featuring cutouts, foldouts, various paper
types and sizes, mirrors, and other materials, the 900-plus-page
book shows Devlin is more than a set designer for flashy pop stars
but also an artist, a sculptor, a poet, and an activist' - Fast
Company
'[Devlin’s] smallest-scale but most personal project to date …
Part-memoir, part-monograph, the volume comprises her life story,
favourite creations and conversations with collaborators including
Virgil Abloh, Carlos Rovelli and Pharrell Williams, alongside
exercises for the reader. There are shapes to cut out, pages to
unfold, annotated scripts to read and mirrors to see yourself in' -
Reference.Point
'From the cardboard sculptures and paintings that developed into
stage sets for the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony and the 2022 Super
Bowl, to her activism, theater, poetry and more, this 900-page
monograph traces ... Es Devlin's three-decade-long career across
disciplines' - The New York Times Book Review
'Despite its heft, the book's complex form...feels intimate and
inviting... A surprising variety of translucent and mirrored
papers, page sizes, die cuts, and other unexpected moments invite
readers to pause and appreciate the object they hold in their
hands. The ideas startle, provoke, and reward. Devlin searches for
ways to provide dopamine hits. As with her designs for the stage,
she invites readers to become part of a temporary society traveling
through a rich, creative landscape of observing and feeling... An
Atlas of Es Devlin is an immersive, joyful reading experience, an
encyclopedia of creativity, and a tribute to the sculptural
possibilities of the printed book. It gives form and substance to
the artist’s philosophy of why she creates' - PRINT
'Vibrant photographs of Devlin's stage and arena structures
contrast with the simplest of doodles, and everything in between.
There are booklets within booklets; there are holes to look through
and ideas to imagine… 858 pages altogether, in which the entire
expanse of Devlin’s world is mapped out (hence the title) in vivid
color and sumptuous design... One of our most brilliant and
creative modern artists comes to scintillating life before you' -
Goldmine
'An extravagant catalog, a doorstop designed by Devlin and Lipps
with Thames & Hudson nearing 1,000 pages and containing thousands
of words by the artist, herself a clear and generous writer …
Documenting far more work than the exhibition - including her
Damien Hirst-like LED cubes for Jay-Z and Ye - the book serves as
both hatchling and egg … Sincerely interesting and aggressively
tactile' - The New York Times, 19.1.24
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