The latest work from "Stacking Boxes" is
Can be hung on the wall
White architecture.

The "Overlapping Boxes" series is one of Aya Koizumi's representative sculptural works. In the early days, the artist created "boxes" that contained miniature structures such as stairs and pillars, but through a process of trial and error, he discovered the idea of "nesting boxes" as he transformed the energy generated by the fact that they are "boxes" into a pure "shape." Although the boxes are "nested," this is not a centripetal nesting structure in which boxes are stacked in order, like a tsuzura basket or a matryoshka doll, but rather a unique method in which boxes are shifted centrifugally. We will introduce the "overlapping boxes" series, which were born from the idea of "nesting and centrifugation."

This "Overlap Box 8" is one of the latest works in the series. (As of June 2022)

Although it has few components, by adding the "diagonal" element,Breaking new ground with the "Overlapping Boxes" seriesThe material that stands up like brutalist architecture is like a single core that has been carved away and carved away, like a long work condensed into a single poem, or like the universe is contained within a single stroke of a pen, making this a work of beautiful white space. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it can also be hung on a wall.

Koizumi has loved boxes since childhood. He also played a lot with Plarail and Diablock. He also has a sympathy for books, which have the commonality of being "inside and outside" and "opening and closing," and which contain a vast amount of time and space within them. The latest work in the "Overlapping Boxes" series, which seems to be the perfect culmination of these ideas, is just the right size, almost A4 size.Personally, I really like this piece.

From the perspective of books, there have been many artists in the past who have turned books into objects, but there are very few artists who have structured the "imagination of reading" or the "time and space inside a closed book." This was an introduction to the latest work from Aya Koizumi's "Overlapping Boxes" series, which continues to do unprecedented things.


Text by Kenya Nakazawa (FRAGILE BOOKS)