Lo Studio Bibliografico Simone Volpato, a small Italian private press located in the Padova/Trieste area, is launching the rebirth of two historical series of Editiones Dominicae established by Franco Riva in the Fifties: Concilium Typographicum and I Quaderni dei Poeti Illustrati.
The first book of the Concilium Typographicum series has just been published:
"Nessuna frontiera" by Giorgio Caproni, unpublished notes by the Poet with original etchings by Sergio Scabar and Ernesto Paulin.
For more information please visit: www.simonevolpatoeditoria.it
August - September 2010, Museum of Art Satu-Mare, Romania.
The exhibition will show book-objects, book-installations, author's books, artist's books, writer's books, experimental and limited editions, fine press books, etc. by European artists invited by the organisers.
After the premiere in Satu-Mare Art Museum the exhibition will be shown in many art galleries and libraries throughout Romania and abroad.
For more information: www.dfewa.eu
www.eibab.blogspot.com
www.satu-mare.ro/cultura/muzee.html.en
7th Edition - Bologna, Palazzo di Re Enzo e del Podestà
24 – 26 September 2010
(Studio Bibliografico Marini, Stand 16, Sala degli Atti)
Bologna this year will become the international capital of ancient book, thanks to the coexistence of the 39th World Congress of Antiquarian Booksellers (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers-Ligue Internazionale de la Librairie Ancienne, 20-23 September 2010) and of the International Antiquarian Book Fair (24-26 September 2010), prestigious events that will gather booksellers and bibliophiles from all over the world. Artelibro 7th Edition is the annual point of reference for people dealing with art books. It is a meeting, selling and trading place, where, besides the best of international art publishing and antique books, new ideas and projects are presented and exchanges of information and services are favoured, in an atmosphere of big cultural kermesse. Artelibro 2010 aims to continue the exploration and promotion of this artistic production that comes from the early twentieth century to the contemporary times.
For more information: http://www.artelibro.it/en
IN-BOOK / OUT-BOOK / IF-BOOK an artist’s books platform
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5th Biennial of the Artist’s Book 2010 FOLIGNO/SPOLETO (Umbria)
Edited by Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele De Donno.
Hours and Venues:
Foligno / Palazzo Trinci 10.00-19.00
Spoleto / Galleria Carandente Arti Visive 10.30-13.00/15.00-18.30
Biblioteca “Giovanni Carandente” Thursday and Friday 10.30-18.30
info / info@viaindustriae.it / 3495240942 / 0742 67314
Lamberto Pignotti. Visual poetry tells it first, visual poetry tells it better
Works from 1945 to 2010
Edited by Melania Gazzotti e Nicole Zanoletti
Fondazione Berardelli via Milano, 107 25126 Brescia tel. 030 313888
www.fondazioneberardelli.org e-mail: info@fondazioneberardelli.org
14 May - 03 June 2010. Opening: 14 May 2010 - 6.00p.m.
The exhibition organized by the Berardelli Foundation shows a selection of more than 200 drawings, collages, artist's books, mixed techniques on canvas along with documents and a huge bibliography to celebrate one of the father of Italian visual poetry.
24 March- 23 May 2010 at Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo, Milan.
Hours: Monday 14.30–19.30 Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday/Sunday 9.30-19.30 Thursday/Saturday 9.30–22.30 (Free admission)
For the first time Palazzo Reale will host an exhibition devoted entirely to artist's books.
Paolo Consolandi has built his precious collection throughout his life, from the Sixties to the present.
Artists: Arman, Alechinsky, Tàpies, Warhol, Ruscha, On Kawara, Agnetti, Richter, LeWitt, Boltanski, Beuys, Boetti, Paolini, Gilbert&George and many others.
The first book by Henry Beyle Editions is now available, "Il sabato del bibliofilo" by Raffaele Carrieri.
Printed on Zerkall-Butten paper by the Campi Quinto de' Stampi Press (Rozzano) in 600 copies.
For this edition the Italian artist Walter Valentini created 2 etching-aquatints hand-printed by Giancarlo Sardella in 71 numbered and signed copies. Milan, November 2009.
For more information please visit: www.henrybeyle.com
The "Spazio Libro d'Artista" Collection, Museo Regionale in Messina (Sicily), January - April 2010.
Exhibition edited by the cultural association "Carte d'Arte Internazionale" directed by the artist Antonio Freiles, in collaboration with Cornelia Lauf from IUAV University in Venice.
The show features artist's books by many artists from the Forties to the present day, including Vincenzo Agnetti, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Damien Hirst, Sol LeWitt, Julian Opie, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andy Warhol.
All the books belong to the association, which is the largest in Sicily with more than 500 books.
A new social networking site for printmakers has been launched: www.printuniverse.ning.com
Membership, which is free, includes a personal page to which members can upload their own blogs and profiles, images, videos, projects, events calendars etc.
Its promoter, Mike Booth, already launched: www.worldprintmakers.com in 2000, one of the first websites devoted to printmaking.
For artists, curators, librarians, students, and researchers interested in artist books and the book arts the Artist Book 3.0 forum is available at: http://artistbooks.ning.com/
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London 22 October 2009 – 5 April 2010 / Room 90 / Admission free.
The exhibition is the first in Europe to focus on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the 20th century. It features 130 works by over 40 artists including prints by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
The exhibition includes Rivera’s famous Emiliano Zapata and his horse which has achieved iconic status in 20th-century art. It also features works by artists that rose to prominence after the founding of the Taller del Gráfica Popular (the national print workshop) in 1937, and earlier works by José Guadalupe Posada, who was posthumously recognised by the revolutionaries as the father of printmaking in Mexico.
For more information: http://www.britishmuseum.org
The Emilio Isgrò Archive has just been established in Milan.
The main aim of the Archive is the complete cataloguing of his entire artistic production for the publication of the first Catalogue Raisonné of his work.
It will guarantee the authenticity of the works by Isgrò on the art market at the present time, issuing a certificate of authenticity, after recording all the details. Beside this activity, it will also guard Isgrò’s artistic legacy against the production and circulation of forgeries, undertaking many initiatives, by legal means if necessary.
The Archive collaborates with museums, public and private galleries, collectors, students and critics in order to collect information, documents, materials on the Artist’s works of art. It will lend works and offer advices on them. Most important, it will promote internationally the knowledge of Isgrò’s works with a series of different initiatives.
For more information, please visit: http://www.emilioisgro.info/
For the third consecutive year, the Pompidou Centre will be host to ArtistBook International.
Now in its 8th year, the Artistbook International salon for artist publications and independent publishers covers the entire international contemporary art scene and attracts 50 exhibitors from a dozen countries.
ArtistBook International is sponsored by the Neuflize Vie Foundation, a longstanding patron of the contemporary image. ArtistBook International 2009 will open with a novel and innovative venture: ArtistBook PRINT. Organized in conjunction with Paris’ Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs and with the support of Neuflize Vie, ArtistBook PRINT will publish an original work by an artist chosen by the ArtistBook PRINT committee. The 2009 edition includes two other major events. The first showcases the collection of artist books, unique in Eastern Europe, built up by Olomouc Museum of Modern Art; the second underlines the importance of Istanbul’s publishers and publications, through a number of “rendezvous” at the Pompidou Centre.
Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Magnani. From 22 November 2009 to 17 January 2010.
The show will exhibit the 44 numbered and limited editions by the Italian association Cento Amici del Libro, founded in Florence in 1939.
It has produced precious books with poems and writings by the most important Italian writers (Tasso, Marco Aurelio, Apuleio, Tacito, Alberti, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Bonvesin de la Riva, Pascoli, Palazzeschi, D’Annunzio, Gozzano, Svevo etc.) and original etchings by Annigoni, Guttuso, Maccari, Tamburi, Mattioli, Melotti, Minguzzi, Pomodoro, Paladino, Valentini, Isgrò, Pericoli and many others.
Info: +39 0522454437 and +39 0522444436 (fax) - http://www.palazzomagnani.it
Edited dy Sarah Bodman.
Published by Impact Press, Centre for Fine Print Research
UWE, Bristol School of Creative Arts.
ISBN: 9781906501020.
New listings from over 170 artists making books in the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Cyprus, Australia, Turkey, Croatia, Lithuania, Norway, Estonia, Romania, Cuba and many more countries.
Available at Studio Bibliografico Marini and Centre for Fine Print Research - UWE, Bristol School of Creative Arts
Edited by Angelo Candiano and Giorgio Maffei. CRIPTA747 Galleria Umberto I, int. 29, 10122 Turin
An experimental exhibition on artists' books from the Nineties to nowadays. A reflection on what an artist's book could be in the Internet era with the coming of new technologies.
Artists: Mac ADAMS / Patrick BOUVET – Nobuyoshi ARAKI – Stefano ARIENTI – John BALDESSARI – Fiona BANNER – Christian BOLTANSKI – Dorothée BOUCHARD – David BYRNE – Vincenzo CABIATI – Angelo CANDIANO – Alejandro CESARCO – Claude CLOSKY – Simon CUTTS – Tacita DEAN – - Giulia DI LENARDA - Céline DUVAL – Hans-Peter FELDMANN – Peter FISCHL / David WEISS – Joan FONTCUBERTA – Yona FRIEDMAN – Claire GLORIEUX – Meri GORNI – Arturo HERRERA – Jenny HOLZER – Roni HORN – Dominik HRUZA – Giuseppe IELASI – Koo JEONG – Erik KESSELS – Joseph KOSUTH – Luisa LAMBRI – Renato LEOTTA – Armin LINKE – Michele LOMBARDELLI - M.LORENZ – Urs LUTHI – Amedeo MARTEGANI – Paul MC CARTHY – Jacopo MILANI - Ct / Kvrz – Jonathan MONK – Liliana MORO – Eleonora OLIVETTI – Yoko ONO – Julian OPIE – Gabriel OROZCO – Olivier Kosta/Thefaine - Corentin PARENT – Martin PARR – Philippe PARRENO – Peter PILLER – Richard PRINCE – Luisa RABBIA – Renato RINALDI – Juliao SARMENTO – Cindy SHERMAN – Giovanna SILVA – Francesco SPAMPINATO – Alessandra SPRANZI – Hiroshi SUGIMOTO – Matteo TERZAGHI – Wolfgang TILLMANS – Rosemarie TROCKEL – Franco VACCARI – Erica VAN HORN – Pietro VISCHI – William WEGMAN – Francine ZUBEIL – Marco ZURCHER
cripta747@gmail.com - cripta747.blogspot.com Hours: 3 - 28 November from Tuesday to Saturday 11.00am-13.00am and 4.30pm-7.30pm
Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, 20th May - 31st August 2009 - Monday to Saturday, 9.00 to 13.00
Free entrance. For more information visit: www.bibpal.unipr.it
The exhibition focuses on the different stages of the publishing process, highligthing the similarities from Giambattista Bodoni and Tallone, typographers-publishers and heirs of the great typograph from Saluzzo.
For the first time will be shown a wide number of documents like letters, manuscripts, unpublished projects, frontispieces noted by pen from both publishers.
In the occasion of this exhibition has been launched the "Typographic Manual II" by Alberto Tallone devoted to layouts, types, fonts, published 190 after the first Bodoni's manual.
Exhibition organized by SPAZIO LIBRO D’ARTISTA, from 12th May to 30th June at Palazzo Manganelli in Catania (Sicily). Edited by Antonio Freiles and Lucia Sapienza. 16.00/19.00 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Information: Tel. 095 321038 - Fax 095 321038
Artists: Horst Antes, Gianfranco Baruchello, Nicola Carrino, Enzo Cucchi, Jean Dubuffet, Antonio Freiles, Gilbert & George, Eugen Gomringer, Damien Hirst, Sol Lewitt, Paul McCarthy, Mario Merz, Eugenio Miccini, Bruno Munari, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Luigi Ontani, Claudio Parmiggiani, Ed Ruscha, Roger Selden, Jacques Villaglé.
The collection SPAZIO LIBRO D’ARTISTA is well worth a visit for its 500 rare artist's books, precious editions and books with original etchings, as well as a wide collection of art and exhibitions catalogues.
4th Biennial of the Artist’s Book 2009 at the Istituto Statale d'Arte Adolfo Venturi and Luigi Poletti Public Library in Modena (Emilia Romagna). Edited by Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele De Donno.
9 May - 11 July 2009 - Opening: Saturday, 9 May 2009 3.30 pm (Istituto Venturi) and 5.00 pm (Poletti Library)
LIBEROLIBROdARTISTALIBERO is an exhibition, which brings together renowned contemporary Italian and international artists along with young students from the best Italian art academies. The Luigi Poletti Library will host “IN PRINCIPIUM ERAT”, a collection of art works and artist’s books from the Fifties to the present day, including Primo De Donno's private collection and the show “LIBRO SENSIBILE”, which will address the role of photography in artist’s books from the Sixties onwards.
Artists at the Poletti Library:• Vito Acconci • Vincenzo Agnetti • Giovanni Anselmo • Stefano Arienti • John Baldessari • Gianfranco Baruchello • Mirella Bentivoglio • Bernd & Hilla Becher • Gianni Bertini • Joseph Beuys • Alighiero Boetti • Christian Boltanski • Brad Brace • Sophie Calle • Eugenio Carmi • Maurizio Cattelan • G. Achille Cavellini • Bruno Ceccobelli • Mario Ceroli • Sandro Chia • Giuseppe Chiari • Giorgio Ciam • Gino De Dominicis • Fernando De Filippi • Giuliano Della Casa • Niki De Saint Phalle /Jean Tinguely • Luciano Fabro • Hans-Peter Feldmann • Peter Fischli / David Weiss • Lucio Fontana • Hamish Fulton • Gelatin • Gilbert&George • Douglas Gordon • Franco Guerzoni • Richard Hamilton • Juan Hidalgo • Damien Hirst • Roni Horn • Allan Kaprow • Massimo Kaufmann • Joseph Kosuth • Jannis Kounellis • Emilio Isgrò • Luisa Lambri • Ugo La Pietra • Ketty La Rocca• Sol LeWitt • Armin Linke • Bruno Locci • Francesco Lo Savio • Luigi Mainolfi • Renato Mambor • Enzo Mari • Eva Marisaldi • Amedeo Martegani • Stelio Maria Martini • Gordon Matta-Clark • Fabio Mauri • Paul Mc Carthy • Jonas Mekas • Mario Merz • Sabrina Mezzaqui • Eugenio Miccini • Jonathan Monk • Bruno Munari • Maurizio Nannucci • Gastone Novelli • Yoko Ono • Luigi Ontani • Roman Opalka • Julian Opie • Mimmo Paladino • Gina Pane • Giulio Paolini • Claudio Parmiggiani • Martin Parr • Luca Maria Patella • Giuseppe Penone • Achille Perilli • Cesare Pietroiusti • Michelangelo Pistoletto • Concetto Pozzati • Richard Prince • Emilio Prini • Luisa Raffaelli • Cloti Ricciardi • Gerhard Richter • Sara Rossi • Mimmo Rotella • Ed Ruscha • Gianni Emilio Simonetti • Ettore Spalletti • Simon Starling • Hiroshi Sugimoto • Wolfgang Tillmans • Tommaso Tozzi • Franco Vaccari • Cesare Viel • Luca Vitone • Gilberto Zorio • Andy Warhol • AlfaBetoCittaDino • Stefano Bonacci • Sauro Cardinali • Luca Costantini • Carlo Dell’Amico • Hilde Escher Margani • Simona Frillici • @iolanda fusini • Andrea Granchi • Aldo Grazzi • Anna Guillot • Jeffrey Isaac • Serenella Lupparelli • Roberta Meccoli • Vittoria Mazzoni • Barbara Novelli • Umberto Raponi • Nicola Renzi • Virginia Ryan • Jack Sal • Nello Teodori • Franco Troiani
Students at the Istituto d'arte Venturi: • Federica Benedet • Francesco Biccheri • Carolina López Bohórquez • Irene Catania • Tiziana Contino • Silvio Combi • Sandro Dalle Crode • Federica Gonnelli • Jacopo Gregori • Valentina Marchel • Giovanni Mazzoleni • Monica Passalenti • Vittoria Petronio • Evita Piazzale • Angelo Sabato • Raffaele Tirone
Works on paper from the Marconi Foundation
Calcografia Nazionale, via della Stamperia, Rome 8 April- 14 June 2009.
L’Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica exhibits a selection of works on paper by Sonia Delaunay – Terk (1885-1979).
Edited by Marconi Foundation in collaboration with Mara Coccia Association this exhibition shows a selection of drawings from 1923-1934, including sketches for clothes, fabrics, objects, interior design, set and costume design for stage, gouaches and lithographs from the Seventies, artist's books with her friends Cendrars, Apollinaire, Delteil, Soupault, Iliasz, Tzara.
Among them the most revolutionary "Prose du transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France" by Blaise Cendrars with pochoir by Sonia Delaunay, coming from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence.
For more information please visit:
http://www.grafica.arti.beniculturali.it/delaunay/index.htm
The Cultural Association Verbamanent in Sannicola (Lecce), in collaboration with "I Presidi del Libro" and the City Council of Aradeo (Lecce), announces the Competition "The Artist's Book", Prize "Fabbricanti di Libri 2009", III Edition.
This annual competition is supported by the Italian Government bodies: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Puglia, Provincia di Lecce and Città di Aradeo.
The deadline is 30 October 2009.
To download the application form and the rules & articles of the III Competion as well as the catalogue of the Competition "The Artist's Book - Premio Fabbricanti di Libri 2008" (second edition 2008) please visit the website of the Cultural Association Verbamanent :
San Nilo Abbey, Corso del Popolo 128, Grottaferrata (Rome)
From 24 April to 10 May 2009
Edited by Anna Onesti and Mario Vitalone in collaboration with Loredana Rea (Editor of the Archive of the Artist's Books in Cassino).
The Council Library of Grottaferrata in collaboration with the City Council, the private Library "Bruno Martellotta” in Grottaferrata and the Archive of the Artist's Books in Cassino promotes the exhibition “Arte in forma di libri”.
There are more than 200 works by many Italian and international artists such as Claudio Adami, Nobushige Akiyama, Luigi Boille, Tommaso Cascella, Bruno Conte, Paolo Cotani, Marcello Diotallevi, Candida Ferrari, Valerio Magrelli, Fabio Mauri, Bruno Munari, Giulia Napoleone, Gianfranco Palmery, Luca Patella, Giancarlo Pavanello, Guido Pecci, Achille Perilli, Lamberto Pignotti, Guido Strazza, Jesper Svenbro, William Xerra, Nobushige Akiyama, etc.
The Archive of the Artist's Books in Cassino was founded in 2001 by the City Council in occation of the 1996 First Biennale of Artist's Books. It is located in the Council Library “Pietro Malatesta” in Cassino and holds about 200 works given by the artists of the various editions of the Biennale.
Parole contro. Il tempo della poesia visiva. From 18 April to 21 June 2009 - La Filanda della Ginestra, Montevarchi (Arezzo)
This exhibition dedicated to Visual Poetry in Italy, focuses on its crucial years, from 1963 to 1968.
Through 110 works, most of them unpublished, by Ketty La Rocca, Roberto Malquori, Lucia Marcucci, Eugenio Miccini, Luciano Ori, Michele Perfetti and Lamberto Pignotti, it shows original documents, films, interviews, posters, ephemera, depliants.
The art works come from public collections, the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato) and the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), as well as private collections.
For more information:
http://www.comune.montevarchi.ar.it/index.asp?para=type%7Cutil~idSez%7C6&news=1975&mese=6&anno=2009
The Curwen Studio (Chilford Hall, Linton, Cambridge, UK), the workshop for artist printmakers set up in 1958 under Stanley Jones, celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2008. It is the surviving offshoot of the Curwen Press, set up by the Reverend John Curwen in 1863, which worked with many of the greatest 20th-century illustrators.
Alan Powers explores the history of the Press in “Standard Setter”, at Illustration, Winter 2008, issue 18, www.illustration-mag.com
A series of exhibitions are taking place to mark the anniversary of the Studio, included the one which just ended at the Tate Britain in London. Full details of the exhibitions (2008-2010) can be found at: http://www.thecurwenstudio.co.uk
Lovers of the 20th-century lithography will adore the beautifully designed book telling the story of the Curwen Press and Studio by Alan Powers: “Art and Print: The Curwen Story”, Tate Publishing (it can be bought from http://www.tate.org.uk/shop/books.htm)
Artist's Books from the Centro per l’Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Fundación PROA Buenos Aires, Argentina From March, 14th to April, 26th, 2009
Website: http://www.proa.org/eng/index.php
The exhibition explores the different variations of books by artist as an artistic expression, looking around artistic movements such as arte povera, spacialism and conceptualism, from the 1960s to these days. The exhibition covers emblematic books by artist, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Maurizio Cattelan, Enzo Cucchi, Lucio Fontana, Mario Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Selection Marco Bazzini, Artistic Director of Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci.
GIORGIO MAFFEI's Bookshop
Via San Francesco da Paola, 13 10123 Turin - Italy
tel. 011 889.234 - 335 702 6472 www.giorgiomaffei.it
Opening: Saturday 13th December 2008, 5 p.m./14th to 23rd December 2008 by appointment only
Fin dagli esordi, 1967, le mostre sul lavoro degli artisti dell’Arte Povera sono state ospitate nei grandi musei e nelle gallerie internazionali d’avanguardia. Ora un luogo inusuale, un appartamento ma anche una libreria dove Giorgio Maffei vive e lavora, ospita un aspetto inconsueto e poco frequentato dell’opera dei “poveristi”. Libri d’artista, multipli, disegni, fotografie, video, ephemera sono protagonisti della mostra, presentati in un contesto di vita ordinaria tra cucina, studio e salotto. Una dimensione, forse, congeniale ad opere che hanno bisogno di una lettura raccolta e partecipata. Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Gilberto Zorio sono artisti che hanno realizzato una straordinaria quantità di multipli e libri, con una particolare cura per l’aspetto anche visuale dei loro materiali editoriali e seriali, raramente esposti nelle grandi mostre.
Sono accompagnati da una selezione di fotografie originali scattate dai protagonisti della scena internazionale. Il contesto creativo di quegli anni è poi ricostruito attraverso una serie di video realizzati dalla fine degli anni Sessanta dagli stessi artisti e dai loro compagni di strada. Il volume “Arte Povera 1966-1980. Libri e documenti”, curato da Giorgio Maffei e pubblicato da Corraini Edizioni di Mantova, accompagna la mostra.
In the Centre for Fine Print Research - School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, Bristol there is a specific area entirely devoted to the world of artist’s books. The Book Arts department, run by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, promotes a wide range of initiatives: projects, events, conferences and symposia, publication of essays and journals, courses and classes on bookbinding, laser cutting and book structures, pamphlet/booklet and Japanese bindings, French sewn flat back and concertina binding, collapsible star binding, coptic stitch, book Boxes, etc.
At http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ it is possibile to follow many of the workshops, public lectures and talks, available on the publications or events pages as free PDF or audio downloads. One of the most interesting project, “What will be the canon for the artist’s book in the 21st Century?”, 
will be investigating and discussing issues concerning the history and future of the artist’s book. Over 2008 and 2009, the research project will open a debate to an international community of artists, educators, researchers, students, presses, publishers, librarians, curators, dealers, collectors and anyone involved in the field.
The publication of Artist’s Book Yearbook, The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books and the Book Arts Newsletter gives an international view on fairs, festivals, round tables, exhibitions, on-line news and web sites, new artist’s publications in Europe, America, Australia.
The exhibition (15 April - 29 June 2008, London, Victoria & Albert Museum) examines what happens when major artists of today and the recent past consider the meaning of books.
Books do more than transmit texts and images. They proclaim authority, permanence or culture. They give out messages as we approach them, and as we open or hold them. Their phisycal presence alone has the power to stimulate memories, to reveal a particular universe of thought or to provoke a dialogue. As a vehicle for artistic creation the book is extraordinarily powerful. Some of the works displayed are unique creations, others are virtuoso examples of printing or binding. Some are mass-produced pamphlets or paperbacks, others are sculptures and installations. In every case, engagement with books - and what books represent - provides a special insight into the artists' creative processes and philosophy. The book was a Roman invention, one that became a household object with the invention of printing. Today images and texts are increasingly dematerialised and delivered electronically from the virtual world of the computer onto the screen. The works of the artists represented in this exhibition insist on the importance of The Book as a physical object and as an idea. The materials used range from papyrus, paper and plastic to leather, bronze and lead.
The passionate commitment of those involved in creating these works is reflected in the title, Blood on Paper.
Artists: Bacon, Balthus, Baselitz, Beuys, Bourgeois, Buren, Bustamante, Caro, Chillida, Clemente, Dubuffet, Francis, Giacometti, Cai Guo-Qiang, Hirst, Iliazd, Kapoor, Kiefer, Koons, Lecuire, Lewitt, Lichtenstein, Long, Matisse, McCarthy, Mirò, Motherwell, Noguchi, Parr, Tom Phillips, Picasso, Raushenberg, Rego, Dieter Roth, Ruscha, Sandison, Tapies, Tuttle, Not Vital.
4th Biennial of the Artist’s Book, 27th April – 25th May, 2008 at Palazzo Trinci in Foligno (Umbria) and the Civic Gallery of Modern Art / Giovanni Carandente Library / Archaelogical Museum in Spoleto (Umbria). Edited by Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele De Donno. Opening : Sunday 27th April 2008 at 11.00am at Palazzo Trinci in Foligno (Umbria) / 5.00pm at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto (Umbria).
LIBEROLIBROdARTISTALIBERO is an exhibition, which brings together renowned contemporary Italian and international artists along with young students from the best Italian art academies. This year’s event will take place simultaneously in Foligno and Spoleto with two exhibitions and a series of associated events such as teaching, guided tours and conferences. The first venue Palazzo Trinci in Foligno will host “IN PRINCIPIUM ERAT”, a collection of art works and artist’s books from the Fifties to the present day. In the Civic Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto, the show “LIBRO SENSIBILE” will address the role of photography in artist’s books from the Sixties onwards.
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