Book Artist, mirror of its creator ...
page one of the books of the artist Angela Roman. This is the third exhibition of Art Paper is carried out in Colombia.
April 26, 2008 - 6:35 pm
By: Katherine Loaiza / Elespectador.com
twelve in Hall Corferias, in the context of Book Fair, are the most hardworking artists' books, creation of national and foreign. Gabriel García Márquez is the father of one of the books.
a dressmaker, and visual arts graduate of the Technological University of Pereira, in the 'artist books' his way to express their passions and pains. One of his books contains tiny exotic clothing designs, all based on eucalyptus leaves, pieces of paper, bits of cloth. The other, more poignant, helped him grieve the loss of his mother, Angela Roman treasures gathered from his mother, youth pictures, poems, songs, notes in a hurry ... both texts are only edition and have a higher cost half a million pesos.
And is that artists' books are a look introspective artist hidden enthusiasm. An idea, the world, the city, motherhood, love, and since then is just a matter of turning on physical media: there are only two rules: the first, using paper and second, remember that life and art are hand.
08/04/1918. Hall 12, Corferias. Bogotá
Katherine Loaiza / Elespectador.com