Here's your chance to admire tomes not for their text but as visual literature in this new show that is showing book sculptures by artists
Here's your chance to admire tomes not for their text but as visual literature in this new show that is showing book sculptures by artists
The new art show Unbound, Sculpted Books Visual Stories encourages you to look beyond the fine print and text of a book and instead focus on the beauty and creativity involved in making books themselves. Right from papermaking to printing to illustrating to binding, 14 odd artists will present their works as a culmination of a ten-day bookmaking workshop conducted by city-based paper maker and artist Jenny Pinto and Delhi based artists Yasmin Sethi and Radha Pandey. The workshop focused on teaching these artists art of papermaking and binding and helped them create their own sculpted books. You will get a chance to admire the tome sculptures done by artists like S G Vasudev, Sheela Gowda, Ayisha Abraham, Jayshree Poddar, Jason Cherian, Umesh Kumar, Jenny Pinto, Ram Sinam, Sarita sunder, Surekha and art students Nikita Jain, Niyati Upadaya, and Kamini Rao.
"In the last 40 years, mainly in the US, the Artist's Book has emerged as a new art form. Artists began to reinterpret the book, changing the form and its use as a medium of unique visual expression. The sculptural and architectural qualities of the book became the focus, in fact often became the content of the book," explains Pinto to us.
According to her, this art form has remained largely unexplored in India. "The show came about because I make paper and have been binding books for the past ten years and I wanted to get artists who don't normally work with paper to bring their experience and artistry to an ordinary but potent object like a book," she says.
Book sculptures are not really a new fangled idea in the field of art, in fact it is a very ancient and artistic skilled craft, as old as the activity of writing, documenting and archiving itself. Even Leonardo Da Vinci is said to have developed this art form and the Artists Book is said to have emerged with artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse created their own artistic interpretations during the 40's and more recently Anish Kapoor and Anselm Keifer have also dabbled in this form. According to Pinto, the art and craft of papermaking, printing, drawing, illustrating, book binding and decorating covers has evolved over centuries and is still growing today. "New technology has changed the way books are made and distributed but has never replaced it. And probably never will," she says.
Pinto promises viewers that they will definitely witness a new form of reading books and will look at books as they have never seen before. These sculptures have been done by artists from grounds as diverse as graphics, textiles, design students and a papermaker, Pinto herself. The books on display are all sculptural interpretations of a book. they may not all be conventional, page turning, books you can hold in your hands, but they will be objects that will contain and communicate ideas the way books do, using paper and binding techniques," Pinto says.
ADVERTISEMENT
Where: Scion Theatre, 971, 12th main, 5th cross, Indiranagar
On: From Jul 1 to 3, 11 am to 7pm
Call: 41572581
Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest news!" Click here!
