If you’re looking for something inspirational, you might want to check out the newly released book, GENGA, by Hiraku Suzuki. The book contains exactly 1000 illustrations dedicated to language and the galaxy. Inspired by every aspect in his immediate environment, GENGA is a dictionary-sized microcosm made out of numerous signals that communicate times between present and future.

Like a dictionary for language – yet to be decoded, “GENGA” means primal drawing and is between GENGO (language) and GINGA (galaxy).

Through his distinctive drawings Hiraku Suzuki has an excavating method of understanding and engaging with the urban environment. The thick paperback features 1000 drawings from over six-years. Each drawing is numbered per page, and each page number is associated with the number of the drawing title.

For more information about GENGA with his interview, check out on the SHIFT article!

GENGA
Release: February 24th, 2010
Specification: 105×149×60mm / 1008pages / with box
Price: 2,280yen
ISBN: 978-4-309-25526-2
Publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers
Support: agnès b. Endowment Fund

http://www.genga.info

Hiraku Suzuki
Born in Japan, Hiraku Suzuki lives and works in Tokyo.
His art is based on drawing, but embraces installation, wall painting, video, live performance and experimental music culture. Much of Suzuki’s work hinges on the vast library of signs and hieroglyphs he has developed by focusing on the shapes, forms, rhythms and materials of his immediate environment, which might be understood as the base units of the ever-changing hidden language of the city. His early works have been collected by 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan) and he participated in many exhibitions in Japan, France, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Brazil etc,.

http://www.wordpublic.com/hiraku/

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