2010 Signature Edition Series
Francesc Ruiz
Untitled (Magazine & Newspaper)
Edition of 2000 / 50 signed copies
Medium/description:Magazine assembled of 120 covers with companion newspaper
Dimensions: 8 x 10 ½ inches
Francesc Ruiz’s subjects are urban subcultures, and his works activate the ideologies and psychologies that he discovers in the course of his work. Utilizing popular culture idioms, especially comics, Ruiz creates subjective commentaries that explore narrative models and their distribution through public forms (billboards, advertising, magazines, the Internet). Mimicking graphic design models, Ruiz also creates new landscapes from associations, dreams and events gathered from or in a particular place. 
His works, which often incorporate performative elements, offer rich syntheses of drawings, photographs, printed materials and found imagery—collages that produce fantastical maps of social experience and the underlying, animating local unconscious.
Ruiz sees the local newsstand as a place to make new discoveries. The arrayed magazines and periodicals construct accidental but compelling narratives; each is, in Ruiz’s words, both “a sculpture and an expanded comic.” Following a period of research, Ruiz created dozens of covers for imaginary periodicals about Philadelphia. Arranged in a kiosk designed after a Philly newsstand, the covers reveal details about the city’s public life as well as generate new imaginaries.
Francesc Ruiz lives and works in Barcelona and Berlin.
Read more about Francesc Ruiz' project for Philagrafika 2010 here.
For purchase information please contact: Rebecca Mott at rmott@philagrafika.org
or call 215-701-8057.