Pedro Guimarães, Rato Tesoura Pistola

Rato Tesoura Pistola

Pedro Guimarães

Publisher
XYZ Books
Year
2021
ISBN
978-989-53182-2-3
Specifications
Hardcover
21 x 25.5 cm
56 pages
Offset Print
Designed by Dayana Lucas
With drawings by Nuno Engstrøm Guimarães (7 years old)
With monster pancakes by Emma-Sofie Engstrøm Guimarães (5 years old)
With mask sculptures by Sara Bichão
First edition

Rato, Tesoura, Pistola gathers together photographs by Pedro Guimarães, produced in collaboration with Nuno Engstrøm Guimarães (drawings, 7 years old) and Emma-Sofie Engstrøm Guimarães (monster pancakes, 5 years old). Sara Bichão kindly offered her masks that become part of a familiar entertainment revealing what an author can be, literally 'one who causes to grow,' and not only in a parental relationship. Combining the drawings of his children together with portraits of them playfully or simply relating with the father's camera, this photobook is a manifold of experiences and artistic attitudes in which photography works as an intertwining element and where design strategies activate it as a device involving the reader himself in the game. As the title of the book suggests, 'Mouse, scissors, gun', and Pedro explains in the book presentation: 'This is how we play together, how we pretend there is no such thing as the vast emptiness that keeps us apart during most days of our lives: 2500 km of land and water, to be precise, the sheer vastness of Europe. But most days is not all days of our lives, right?'. And the time we spend flipping through this book, opening the folds that constitute its very semantic structure, has the sweet and captivating flavour of the magic time described in Pedro's book, shortening distances and creating magic worlds with the interaction of basic, but powerful elements. (Chiara Capodici, Leporello Books, Rome)

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