{A peep, but a peep. Four carte de visite collages, and four random backs, from a forthcoming artists' book with Louise.}
An artists' book made in collaboration with Louise is very near finished and we will be taking it with us to the forthcoming Melbourne Art Book Fair. A deck of Salvaged Relatives features the above quartet of collages on cartes de visite from Malop Street, Geelong to studios in Shrewsbury, housed with a red-like-rubies Solander box.
From top to bottom, they read: In the borrowed costume for a Greek from Cleopatra, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1909, with a Ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus); In the borrowed costume for a female worker from Step of steel, designed by Georgy Yakulov, c 1927, with a Brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) and a Horsfield's tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus); In the modified costume for an attendant of Köstchei from the Fantastic ballet in one act, The Firebird, designed by Aleksander Golovin and Léon Bakst, 1910, with a Slow loris (Nycticebus) and Karoo bush rat (Myotomys unisulcatus); In the modified costume for the Countess from the ballet in one act, The temptations of the shepherdess (or L’Amour vainqueur), designed by Juan Gris, c 1924, with a Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
Up to the gills in show and tell, in addition to this artists' book, we will have several original Salvaged Relatives (not from the artists' book) available, as well as a troupe (or six) reproduced and bound in zine format. With eleven new zine titles and two unique-state artists' books, we're looking forward to seeing you at the fair.
{Looking forward to seeing you at the Melbourne Art Book Fair at the NGV. Until then, new work created especially for the fair can still be seen taking shape on instagram.}
+ Hold still. Hold still, I say. A final fitting before the gluepot comes out.
+ Arvo Pärt. Collage. Slumbering pets. (View from Saturday evening's #theworkingtable.)
+ Preparations and words (posted on Elsewhere)
+ Carte de visite (collection on Luminous Lint)
-
The Melbourne Art Book Fair will take place at NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne from 10am-5pm, Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2015, with a special evening preview party on Friday 1 May 2015. The Fair is free and open to the public.
A ticketed preview evening will take place on Friday 1 May 2015 from 6-10pm. The preview is a special opportunity for visitors to preview the Fair, purchase limited edition publications and interact with publishers and artists before the weekend program commences. The preview will also be a curated social, music, food and beverage experience.
