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
“Zero Through Ten” 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.
“It’s the kind of meditation I do for counting. I’m breathing in at “one”; imagine you’re breathing through your feet, or through your genitals and each bump your breath encounters is an area of the body: the abdomen, the chest, the shoulders. Then when you hit the very top of your breath you’re experiencing the wholeness, not just of your body but of the whole universe. And then you exhale, all the way back down through the top of your thorax, a little bit lower, down into your abdomen, genitals, and out you’re at “one”. You then begin counting “two” and so forth to “ten”, and then back down to “zero.” 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.
“It’s the kind of meditation I do for counting. I’m breathing in at “one”; imagine you’re breathing through your feet, or through your genitals and each bump your breath encounters is an area of the body: the abdomen, the chest, the shoulders. Then when you hit the very top of your breath you’re experiencing the wholeness, not just of your body but of the whole universe. And then you exhale, all the way back down through the top of your thorax, a little bit lower, down into your abdomen, genitals, and out you’re at “one”. You then begin counting “two” and so forth to “ten”, and then back down to “zero.” 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.