One of the highlights of hosting a major global event is the money that pours into the city. Beside the huge investment in infrastructure sometimes there is some money invested in the arts. The World Cup was held in Germany this past summer and here is one of the treasures that was created. "Modern Book Printing" to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of Modern Book Printing around 1450 in Mainz This sculpture resides less than 200 feet from where this Nazi book burning took place in 1933 Rising from the ashes...
Crime & Punishment in the Book Arts
Book Patrol's second installment celebrating The Guild of Bookworkers 100th Anniversary show centers around two works on the theme of crime & punishmentFrom the Contemporary Juried Exhibit:Weitlauf, Ashlee. T is for Torture: Tempe, AZ, 2005. Pamphlet that uses letterpress, photo lithography, and photopolymer printing on handmade paper. The pamphlet is about the illegal torture activities that the United States is committing. It includes text that describes what the USA is involved in, what national and international laws have been broken, and testimony from torture victims.From the Retrospective Exhibition:Davis, Jerilyn Glen. Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor: New York, 1987. 24 x...
Guild of Bookworkers 100th Anniversary Exhibit
In honor of the Guild of Bookmakers 100th anniversary Book Patrol will regularly feature one book from the Contemporary Exhibition of Juried Works and one book from the Retrospective Exhibition.The exhibit is currently on display at the Grolier Club in NY and will travel around the country in 2007.Our first installment features two of Seattle's own book artists. Bonnie Thompson Norman's "Primer for Democracy", a fitting post election piece, and Claudia Cohen's beautiful binding of Rudolf Koch's Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild, 1936 A Primer for Democracy: Seattle, 2004. 8 x 8 x 8 centimeters. was created in a class just before...
Anselm Kiefer and the Book
Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Lead, steel, glass, copper wire and mixed organic media, approx. 460 × 884 × 180 cm.In honor of the exhibit Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Book Patrol will feature one of Kiefer's book related works until the exhibit ends at the end of January.Here is our second installment: Zweistromland/The High Priestess, 1986-89The work consists of 200 lead books (each weighing 300 kilos or a little over 600 pounds) arranged on two steel book shelves which are leaned against each other, but...
In the Gallery: Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibit
Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers is hosting an amazing exhibit of the work of the contemporary Japanese artist Shinsuke MinegishiIt will feature a variety of Minegishi's work including wood engravings for limited edition books; prints in which he employs both lithograph and wood engraving techniques; and simple wood engravings. Minegishi is a Japanese printmaker and wood engraver living in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1970 and moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1998, and has been has...