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There are grasshoppers jumping
There are grasshoppers jumping
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★Wu Ruizhe, the creator selected for the Illustration Exhibition of Bologna, Italy/Ilustrarte Illustration Biennale of Portugal, has his first graphic creation!
★Designed by Deng Yu, the cover is mounted on fabric and hardcover is screen-printed, the inner pages are printed in five colors, and the noble paper is used, showing the artistic craftsmanship of paper printing and binding.
★Limited gift: [Flower-cut bookplate] (four types of flowers are given randomly).
"In Wu Ruizhe's garden,
Days are a combination of geometric shapes,
Colors fight against each other,
The lines of fate are laid out gently. ”——Sun Zi Ping
★Using scissors to draw, Wu Ruizhe cuts out a fascinating visual journey, cutting out multi-layered spaces of shapes and colors.
★Lin Xiaobei, Sun Ziping, Chen Shuli, Chen Boyu, Zou Junsheng—recommended!
"Creation is like this to me: it's honesty, following life, and there's no way to force it." - Wu Ruizhe
In 2017, he was selected for the Bologna Illustration Exhibition, and then went to the Royal College of Art to study for a master's degree in illustration. In 2018, he was selected for the Ilustrarte Illustration Biennale in Portugal. After graduation in 2019, he was invited to live in Lisbon, Portugal for three months. As one of the few, he specializes in paper-cutting and spelling. As a young Taiwanese creator whose main form of creation is Wu Ruizhe, Wu Ruizhe's image works are full of expectations. However, when he finally returned to Taiwan before the epidemic, Xianxuan gave readers a series of concise and wonderful book design works...
It wasn't until October 2023 that he finally ushered in his first personal graphic creation in Taiwan-"There is a Grasshopper Jumping".
"The days are like this
There are grasshoppers jumping and the metronome is turned on
Some things cannot be explained too clearly."
"The Grasshopper Jumps" is a special work that allows you to open your eyes again, cleanse the visual cortex of your brain, and regain your ability to "see" pictures. The dark green framed Dutch cloth cover has a simple dark flower shape (or is it a human figure with open hands?). The cloth surface continues to the inside, followed by the bare-backed hardcover body, and then connects to a green grassland on a bright yellow ground. Then the camera starts to move from the title page, and the journey begins, sometimes zooming in close-up, sometimes zooming out, sometimes the "grasshopper" as the protagonist is invisible in the details of the picture (be sure to keep your eyes open to look for it), sometimes it is huge and overflows the spread of the page.
The narrative of Wu Ruizhe's Under the Scissors is visual rather than traditional plot-based. Through concise lines, pure geometric shapes, and bold and contrasting color blocks, the existence and transformation of different spaces are cleverly combined. In this way, the story time that serves meaning is eliminated and replaced by the uniqueness of the moving and static moments, as well as the poetry and beauty that burst out from them.
"The days are like this, imagine
Become a gardener before the soil is dry
The shadows are too long and the grass is too sharp. "
From bright yellow to silver and black to white to blue-green, the base color is an interesting division and transformation of field space. The flattening of the shapes of flowers, plants and insects highlights the pure beauty of geometric shapes. In addition to images, Wu Ruizhe, who has won a literary award and been selected for prose anthologies, split a poem into four paragraphs and interspersed them. The pictures and text are not direct correspondences.
Wu Ruizhe said: "There are harmonious parts (pictures) and divergent parts (pictures and texts) in my creations. The difference comes from the fact that I like to put two things that are not so close together. They each have meaning. , but when put together, it will produce another layer of meaning. That "other layer of meaning" may be the part I want to express. It comes half from me and half from the reader's free interpretation (it can even be misread), I really enjoy this distance and relationship."
"The Grasshopper Jumps" is an extension and development of Wu Ruizhe's 2021 "Greenhouse" series of works. There is a breakup and a new life. It is the author's re-editing and sorting out of himself. Whether this book is a picture book, a graphic book, or an art book, whether it is the angle of its theme or the style of expression, it is a unique and rare work in Taiwan that is currently very rare.
"There are grasshoppers jumping. Woven into a cradle, I continue
Read long sentences aloud——
Everything is stolen"
——Wu Ruizhe
[High-standard binding]
The book was designed and bound by Deng Yu, who collaborated closely with fellow designer Wu Ruizhe. The simple and elegant overall tone, from the book cover, book waist, to the high-standard paper selection and printing processing of the inner pages and bookplates, make the book full of pleasure to read, and also make Wu Ruizhe's full paper-cut colors the most perfect. Meticulous presentation. The details are pleasing to the eye, and it is a book art that is definitely worth collecting.
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★Designed by Deng Yu, the cover is mounted on fabric and hardcover is screen-printed, the inner pages are printed in five colors, and the noble paper is used, showing the artistic craftsmanship of paper printing and binding.
★Limited gift: [Flower-cut bookplate] (four types of flowers are given randomly).
"In Wu Ruizhe's garden,
Days are a combination of geometric shapes,
Colors fight against each other,
The lines of fate are laid out gently. ”——Sun Zi Ping
★Using scissors to draw, Wu Ruizhe cuts out a fascinating visual journey, cutting out multi-layered spaces of shapes and colors.
★Lin Xiaobei, Sun Ziping, Chen Shuli, Chen Boyu, Zou Junsheng—recommended!
"Creation is like this to me: it's honesty, following life, and there's no way to force it." - Wu Ruizhe
In 2017, he was selected for the Bologna Illustration Exhibition, and then went to the Royal College of Art to study for a master's degree in illustration. In 2018, he was selected for the Ilustrarte Illustration Biennale in Portugal. After graduation in 2019, he was invited to live in Lisbon, Portugal for three months. As one of the few, he specializes in paper-cutting and spelling. As a young Taiwanese creator whose main form of creation is Wu Ruizhe, Wu Ruizhe's image works are full of expectations. However, when he finally returned to Taiwan before the epidemic, Xianxuan gave readers a series of concise and wonderful book design works...
It wasn't until October 2023 that he finally ushered in his first personal graphic creation in Taiwan-"There is a Grasshopper Jumping".
"The days are like this
There are grasshoppers jumping and the metronome is turned on
Some things cannot be explained too clearly."
"The Grasshopper Jumps" is a special work that allows you to open your eyes again, cleanse the visual cortex of your brain, and regain your ability to "see" pictures. The dark green framed Dutch cloth cover has a simple dark flower shape (or is it a human figure with open hands?). The cloth surface continues to the inside, followed by the bare-backed hardcover body, and then connects to a green grassland on a bright yellow ground. Then the camera starts to move from the title page, and the journey begins, sometimes zooming in close-up, sometimes zooming out, sometimes the "grasshopper" as the protagonist is invisible in the details of the picture (be sure to keep your eyes open to look for it), sometimes it is huge and overflows the spread of the page.
The narrative of Wu Ruizhe's Under the Scissors is visual rather than traditional plot-based. Through concise lines, pure geometric shapes, and bold and contrasting color blocks, the existence and transformation of different spaces are cleverly combined. In this way, the story time that serves meaning is eliminated and replaced by the uniqueness of the moving and static moments, as well as the poetry and beauty that burst out from them.
"The days are like this, imagine
Become a gardener before the soil is dry
The shadows are too long and the grass is too sharp. "
From bright yellow to silver and black to white to blue-green, the base color is an interesting division and transformation of field space. The flattening of the shapes of flowers, plants and insects highlights the pure beauty of geometric shapes. In addition to images, Wu Ruizhe, who has won a literary award and been selected for prose anthologies, split a poem into four paragraphs and interspersed them. The pictures and text are not direct correspondences.
Wu Ruizhe said: "There are harmonious parts (pictures) and divergent parts (pictures and texts) in my creations. The difference comes from the fact that I like to put two things that are not so close together. They each have meaning. , but when put together, it will produce another layer of meaning. That "other layer of meaning" may be the part I want to express. It comes half from me and half from the reader's free interpretation (it can even be misread), I really enjoy this distance and relationship."
"The Grasshopper Jumps" is an extension and development of Wu Ruizhe's 2021 "Greenhouse" series of works. There is a breakup and a new life. It is the author's re-editing and sorting out of himself. Whether this book is a picture book, a graphic book, or an art book, whether it is the angle of its theme or the style of expression, it is a unique and rare work in Taiwan that is currently very rare.
"There are grasshoppers jumping. Woven into a cradle, I continue
Read long sentences aloud——
Everything is stolen"
——Wu Ruizhe
[High-standard binding]
The book was designed and bound by Deng Yu, who collaborated closely with fellow designer Wu Ruizhe. The simple and elegant overall tone, from the book cover, book waist, to the high-standard paper selection and printing processing of the inner pages and bookplates, make the book full of pleasure to read, and also make Wu Ruizhe's full paper-cut colors the most perfect. Meticulous presentation. The details are pleasing to the eye, and it is a book art that is definitely worth collecting.
