THE STUDIUM CODEX AT KALA ART INSTITUTE

For more information about Codex Book Fair, check their website: http://www.codexfoundation.org

Saturday, Feburuary 5, 2011
9am-12pm

The Mobile Printshop
Locantion: Classroom    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Till Verclas

Bring small, pre-etched copper plates (roughly postcard size). Any technique is allowed. If you do not have any, just bring the plate and an idea for what you want to draw on it. Till will demonstrate inking, wiping, and how to pour liquid plaster on it. There are a lot of little tricks to achieve the best results. The plaster will show every detail from your plate, even scratches. There also will be some helpful hints, such as what to do with the plaster afterwards.

When poetry meets contemporary art, or: how the text is getting a shape
Locantion: Conference room    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Johannes Strugala, Despalles editions

Lecture-workshop with images and open discussion about Despalles’ artist’s books: examples of their concept, technique and construction; the liberation of typography as a visual art; the variable aspects of the double-page as the basis of the book when its form is the codex.

Since 1982 Johannes Strugalla’s despalles éditions has brought together contemporary artists and poets. It works as a bridge between different esthetic categories, crossing cultural borders, especially those between the French and German languages. Poetic and visual texts are presented bilingually and often with experimental typography. Most of the books are printed letterpress in limited editions, but increasingly, new technologies are used for producing the books. Despalles’ work is owned by many important private and public collections in Europe and North America.

Paperworks: paper is more than a surface
Locantion: Print Studio    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Denise Lapointe, Papeterie Saint-Armand

Denise Lapointe of the Papeterie Saint-Armand will bring a portfolio of prints and books using paper in unusual ways. A set of St.Armand paper samples will be given to each participant. We then will fold, weave or knit humid (not dripping wet) pulp and run it in an etching press to create a bond between the fibres. This can be done over an embossing plate, an inked image or an existing waterprof print on tissue paper which will melt into the humid background.

Denise's background in printmaking has made her a helpful part of the Papeterie Saint-Armand since 1992. The mill founded by David Carruthers in 1979 makes a wide range of papers quite a few can be seen on the tables of the CODEX exhibitors.

The main caracteristic of Denise Lapointe work is her sense of material; she has been sanding, rusting, waxing, folding and more recently weaving papers for her different projects. Her etching/letterpress studio is located in the mill. Her last realization: “L’arbre raconte” is an eight foot woven paper tree part of an exhibition at the Montréal Botanical Garden. She is currently struggling to build a folding set of moose antlers for the centrepiece of her coming book “Les cris de l’orignal”. www.st-armand.com

 

1-4pm

Matagalpa Transfer - 12 Years of A Graphic and Printshop Project in Nicaragua, Bringing Know-how and getting Impressions
Locantion: Project Room 3    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Eckhard Froeschlin

This seminar will explore the short history and the artistic development of the TALLERCONTIL group in Matagalpa/Nicaragua, established in 1998. Coming directly from Nicaragua, Eckhard Froeschlin will have some examples of graphic and book art in Matagalpa to show, photographs from workshops there and four artists' books that refer directly to Nicaragua, to travels there and to Nicaraguan poetry. BORDERS & COLLABORATIONS, the CODEX Symposium theme, also offers a base for this workshop, which is to encourage artists to get into intercultural and intercontinental relations.

Based on personal contacts and the Wuppertal-Matagalpa city sisterhood, the project started with woodcut printing under the poorest circumstances. Now, the project group TALLERCONTIL owns an etching press and a Hollander beater, both built in Matagalpa. The studio has advanced to producing etchings, single-sheet book art, unique books and a mould- made paper production. Some members now are realizing their own workshops throughout Nicaragua, which was a country without any graphic and book art traditions. Now we can offer exhibitions with over 200 prints, 15 books and an annual print calendar. For CODEX III, Eckhard will present his new artist's book COSAS PERDIDAS containing 12 etchings, for which de Matagalpa based poet Ernesto Soto wrote 12 short stories. The book will be the first big one printed on Matagalpa mould-made paper.

Eckhard Froeschlin, German, born 1953. Art and history studies, some years working in a gallery and as a taxi driver, the last 30 years as free artist: etchings, painting, book art and sculpture, and living without another profession. Running an Artist's Press, EDITION SCHWARZE SEITE, with Anne Buessow since 1991. Recipient 1999 Hans Meid Book art prize. www.froeschlin-buessow.de

Coptic Binding
Locantion: Classroom    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Sabine Golde

The Coptic binding style is one of the oldest bookbinding techniques. It comes from Agypth, more than 2000 years ago. The books made without glue and they are very good to open. This technique can be used with covers of binders board, but also with wood, plexiglas, metal, and other rigid materials.

Sabine Golde studied book arts and graphic design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. Since 2007 she has been Professor for Bookart at the Academy of Art & Design in Halle/Saale. www.13-plus.de/Einblicke/s_golde.htm

Holistic Book Design, a performative vernacular on how to interact with, analyze and talk about Artists Books
Locantion: Conference Room    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Marshall Weber

Holistic Book Design will assist in the appraising, cataloging, critiquing, creative appreciation and designing of both mainstream and artists books. It provides a succinct vocabulary for analyzing the aesthetic, conceptual and material achievements of the contemporary artist book genre and expands the two dimensional visual model of book design into a three dimensional sensory model that considers and highlights the relationship of the entire human body to the book form rather than just the eyes and intellect. It examines the visceral nature of book design and function and focuses on complete system functionality as opposed to component design or material and craft design structures. The workshop uses specific artist books to demonstrate specific design characteristics; both the presenter and workshop participants will handle artists book during the workshop.

Marshall Weber, MFA San Francisco Art Institute, is an artist who makes artists books, collage, drawings and performances. His work is collected and exhibited by: the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the German National Library’s Book and Writing Museum, the Library of Congress and numerous other institutions globally. In 1999 he was the co-founder of the Booklyn Artists Alliance and continues to be the Directing Curator and artist representative at Booklyn. Booklyn is acknowledged as one of the pioneer artist organizations leading the Art and Special Collections Libraries’ 21st Century shift from a primary focus on antiquarian bibliophile driven fine press acquisition to a more balanced subject and curriculum motivated collecting of artist books and fine press.

Mezzotint
Locantion: Print Studio    Registration Fee: $150
Instructor: Judith Rothchild

A brief introduction to the process by professional mezzotint artist Judith Rothchild. With the aid of plates and a series of proofs, students will be introduced to the tools and shown how to rock a plate and bring up the image. Using examples of her prints and books, Judith will show the opportunities that this technique offers. The process is slow and the workshop brief, but the students will have the opportunity to use the tools and experiment on plates which will printed at the end of the workshop.

Judith Rothchild was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a graduate in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (1972). She moved to the south of France in 1974 and in 1997 established Éditions Verdigris with Mark Lintott. They have jointly published over twenty Livres d’Artiste from 1997 to 2008.