2024
5 copies
Signed and numbered
5 copies
Signed and numbered
Closed:
31×23×3,5 cm 12.2×9×1.4 in.
Unfolded:
31×23×35 cm 12.2×9×13.8 in.
31×23×3,5 cm 12.2×9×1.4 in.
Unfolded:
31×23×35 cm 12.2×9×13.8 in.
Hand-painted Fedrigoni paper
Fabric and cardboard slipcase
Fabric and cardboard slipcase
“Body Impermanence” is one of the four “Modal Modules” by Matthew Ronay: meditation altars that blend the artist’s visual expression and spiritual practice, creating a sculptural space designed for contemplation and introspection.
“When you’re breathing in, you’re imagining what happens to your body when there’s no life in it. So in the beginning it’s just a thing that starts to decompose and you imagine your body fully decomposing. The figure in the center is a stand-in for the body that I use in my sculptures all the time, it’s a guy with an erection. So one side of it will be this body, which then turns upside down as if disseminating into ash, or nothing.” M.R.
For each module, a visual interpretation of a different meditation has been translated into a tunnel book formed of twelve laser-cut layers. Each layer is hand-painted in the subtle and distinctive colors that characterize Ronay’s sculptural work and assembled by Three Star Books in Paris. Each book is housed in a slipcase and accompanied by a colophon typeset in a font created by the artist, inspired by the one designed by Alfred Roller in 1903.
“When you’re breathing in, you’re imagining what happens to your body when there’s no life in it. So in the beginning it’s just a thing that starts to decompose and you imagine your body fully decomposing. The figure in the center is a stand-in for the body that I use in my sculptures all the time, it’s a guy with an erection. So one side of it will be this body, which then turns upside down as if disseminating into ash, or nothing.” M.R.
For each module, a visual interpretation of a different meditation has been translated into a tunnel book formed of twelve laser-cut layers. Each layer is hand-painted in the subtle and distinctive colors that characterize Ronay’s sculptural work and assembled by Three Star Books in Paris. Each book is housed in a slipcase and accompanied by a colophon typeset in a font created by the artist, inspired by the one designed by Alfred Roller in 1903.