Basic Information
240 pages 188*247mm 895g ISBN: 9788932922089
book introduction
Jean-Jacques Sangfe's new collection of works, "Sketchbook of Sangfe," is introduced in open books.Sangfe's Sketchbook is a book that will be a special gift for readers who want to know how he draws, how he draws up ideas for his work, what tools he uses when drawing, and how he works.
His sketchbook, which has long been quietly bought out of sight of people for a long time, is an artistic exploration of Sangfe and a valuable testimony to inspiration.Through the numerous sketchbooks he has accumulated so far, we encounter the elegance and naturalness of the lines drawn by Sang-Fe, and minor miracles resulting from facial expressions and movements.In addition, most of the paintings in "Sangpe's Sketchbook" have a short explanation comparable to that of a great search for humanity or a critic's killing.
In short, a true play unfolds on a piece of paper.In the sketchbook, Sang-Fe pursues only the goal of keeping facial expressions, attitudes, gestures, and backgrounds in one piece of paper.We encounter the most evaporation-prone and suggestive essence of what is called a picture.Nothing tells us what leads us to such an absolute dream, but yet it contains all the words.
About the author and translator
Jean-Jacques Sempe (Jieun)
When his first collection of works came out, he was already considered the world's best painter in France.He expressed the loneliness inside humans with thin lines and calm coloring, and sometimes spread his daily life pleasantly with humorous drawings.Born in Bordeaux, France in 1932, Sao Fé began painting when he dreamed of becoming a band player as a boy.He also developed his passion for painting as well as music by drawing one by one of his respected jazz musicians.In 1960, he created Little Nicola with humorist René Gosini, and this work became a great success and gained fame as an illustrator.He drew an illustration of Patrick Juskind's Story of Zommer in 1991, and published "A Friend of the Heart" and "A Child Who Can't Ride a Bicycle" in the same year are masterpieces that clearly reveal his ability to summarize movies and plays into a single sketch.When the drawings and watercolors that Sao Fé has been painting for 30 years were exhibited in Papillon de Jar in 1991, they were praised for telling more about modern society than 1,000 sociological papers.
The collections of Sao Fé, which have won the French Graphic Art Grand Prize, include Clumsy Competition, Paris Sketch, New York Sketch, Blushing Child, Different Minds, Life is a Simple Balance Problem, French Sketch, and Hang on!So far, more than 30 works have been published, and these books have been translated and published in many languages around the world.The "Sketchbook of Sangfe" released in 2021 is like a long work log that allows you to notice how Sangpe draws pictures and how to draw up ideas for his work.He died in August 2022 at the age of 89.
Recent works: "Sketchbook of Sangpe," "Hold on!"><Sangpe's music>…A total of 298 species.
Yang Young-ran (Transferred Gin)
After graduating from Seoul National University's Department of French and French Literature, he completed his Ph.D. in French literature at the University of Paris 3.He served as a reporter for the Korea Herald and a Paris correspondent for the current affairs journal.The translated books include Transition to Life Economy, Philosopher's Table, Why World Poverty Does Not Go Away, Robots Love, Age of Greed, Human Island, Not Alone, and Prometheus' Metal.
Introduction of the book provided by the publisher
I leave everything to the sketchbook.
Ideas or whatever.
Whether the drawings are still sketchy,
Even if it's already been edited 50 times,
All the pictures are still in this sketchbook.
- Jean-Jacques Saint-Pés
Jean-Jacques Sangfe draws a picture that takes root in both dreams and daily life.
But behind it lies a very sharp and elaborate work.
- Patrick Modiano
a sketchbook containing everything about Sang-Fe.
Jean-Jacques Sangfe's new collection of works, "Sketchbook of Sangfe," is introduced in open books.Sangfe's Sketchbook is a book that will be a special gift for readers who want to know how he draws, how he draws up ideas for his work, what tools he uses when drawing, and how he works.His sketchbook, which has long been quietly bought out of sight of people for a long time, is an artistic exploration of Sangfe and a valuable testimony to inspiration.Through the numerous sketchbooks he has accumulated so far, we encounter the elegance and naturalness of the lines drawn by Sang-Fe, and minor miracles resulting from facial expressions and movements.In addition, most of the paintings in "Sangpe's Sketchbook" have a short explanation comparable to that of a great search for humanity or a critic's killing.In short, a true play unfolds on a piece of paper.In the sketchbook, Sang-Fe pursues only the goal of keeping facial expressions, attitudes, gestures, and backgrounds in one piece of paper.We encounter the most evaporation-prone and suggestive essence of what is called a picture.Nothing tells us what leads us to such an absolute dream, but yet it contains all the words.
200 drawing pictures of Sang-Fe that we're revealing for the first time.
If you look at Sangpe's Sketchbook, you can guess that every time you release a book, Sangpee finally filled dozens of sketchbooks to reach the most appropriate note.His work reminds me of dancers who forget the hard practice time I spent in front of the auxiliary stick with the grace on stage.That's right. If you think about it carefully, Sangfe's paintings live and breathe with very close musical movements, such as modern dance and ballet.Along with Sang-Fe, we easily go beyond caricatures and social satire.The characters he depicts (even decent ladies who have serious conversations and gentlemen in impeccable suits) give off an atmosphere of distraction from the Law of Gravity.They evoke the emotion I felt when I first saw a ballet performance as a child.If I remember correctly, the chief female dancer climbed the stairs slowly, like a levitating phenomenon.There is the elegance of the sleepwalker and the stiffness of the Buster Keaton style in the apparently ordinary characters they exchange with.And, as such, it can be assumed that there was a very sharp and sophisticated work behind making the paintings feel rooted in dreams and daily life at the same time.- In the preface "Dream with Eyes Open", Patrick Modiano