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Freeing the Book
The concept behind the exhibition is to showcase and exhibit works of art that is made by using books, or by full time book artists. Book art is popular in the medium of artist's journals or sketchbooks but not known as medium where books can be altered... more >> “The Book – a traditional object, which nevertheless is capable of the most contemporary adaptation, yet retains an aesthetic dimension” – Mabel Kaufmann, The Book as Art and Idea.
The concept behind the exhibition is to showcase and exhibit works of art that is made by using books, or by full time book artists. Book art is popular in the medium of artist's journals or sketchbooks but not known as medium where books can be altered to depict an idea.
These books, be it historical or contemporary, also become the medium by which artists interrogate its form and structure, it's content and reinterpret it in their own practice. Reinterpretation of books takes the forms by drawing in them, carving them, tearing them, to convey contemporary issues of displacement, war, fantasy, nostalgia, or history.
