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KILLING COMMENDATORE


Location: Vietnam
Year: 2020
Category: Book cover

Personal work  

Book cover design of Vietnamese version of Haruki Murakami’s novel ‘Killing Commendatore’. This work was created for a book cover competition organised by Nha Nam Publishing and Communications and JPF (The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam) and not a commissioned piece.

The artist’s studio and the pit are parallel layers of existence in a fog of feeling nuances. These “worlds” swivel around an axle – or the sword that kills the Commendatore. On the other hand, this composition is my ideation about the main structure of the mysterious bell that rings in the woods every night – or – the Idea’s calling awakening the artist. On this basic structure, iconic images (the moon, the owl, the Peugeot 205…) and shades of red are placed to form a tornado pointing towards the streak of blood where the Idea arises and unstoppably demands to be out, to be expressed, or to be killed.


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