Respice, Adspice Prospice: Examine the past, Examine the present, Examine the future;
Antonietta Covino-Beehre, Victoria, Australia, 2013
Dimensions: 193mm wide x 213mm high x 10mm deep
Material: Bound in linen and imitation leather, printed with archival inks on maniro diachi paper
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
July 10 - September 21, 2013
The Center for Books Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred in March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion.
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition asked each Book Artist who joined the project to complete three books that reflected both the strength and fragility of books, but also showed the endurance of the ideas within them. It was requested the work reflected both the targeted attack on this “street of the booksellers” as well as the ultimate futility of those who try to erase thought.
A complete set of all the books will be donated to the Iraq National Library in Baghdad. The other two sets are touring for the next few years in conjunction with shows of the broadsides as well as in shows of their own.
The Center for Book Arts will be presenting the exhibition, in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts, Columbia University Libraries, International Print Center New York, and Poets House. This major traveling exhibition, which will feature approximately 250 artists' books and 50 broadside (prints) by artists from around the world, was co-organised by Beau Beausoleil, Founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, and Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Fine Print Research in Bristol, UK.
Note: I have the fourth and final book of the edition available for purchase. Please contact me for further information and pricing.
Additional images of the book are available on my website: http://www.acovinobeehre.com/Works/photos/
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