Gabriel Jones

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A provocative and crafty book that exposes the dictatorial grandeur of communist buildings and statues.

By making collages of the communist, brutalist architecture presented on tourist postcards (1947-1991) with disruptive tags found on murals worldwide (2010-2025), artist/photographer Gabriel Jones blends the top-down and the grassroots, the sublime and the subluminal as well as past and present political context.

This decontextualisation is subversive, causing a humorist effect. The tags on the facades reveal what many of us secretly think, in speculative or intuitive creative thought. As such, this series brings an immaterial resilience to imposed superstructures, and an alternative to the tourist experiences. This dynamic easily lends itself to mirror against the superstructures proposed by contemporary politicians. Be it in our minds, shared with others socially or by tagging places yourself. The juxtapositions in these collages’ express the resilience of the liberty people take towards facades imposed upon us.

Typehardcover
Dimensions178 x 135 mm / 7 x 5.3 inch (landscape)
Pages140
ISBN978-90-835795-7-3
LanguageEnglish
Release date20251122
BindingSwiss bound
PaperGeltex 218 Ringblomma, 115g, FSC, PEFC; Maxima Volume, 150g, FSC
ColorCover: 1+0, PMS: 1 (PANTONE 313 U). Endsheets: 1+1, PMS: 1 (PANTONE 313 U). Inside: 4+4
PrinterPrinton, Tallin (Est.)
FontHolstein regular
Image specs64 images in full color
DetailsHard case, Sewn block, Squared spine, 3.0 mm board, Standard H&T bands; Additional operations and materials: Swiss binding with Brillianta 4012 on the spine;