"Absence and Presence", a printmaking Project for Al Mutanabbi Street

Dopo il reading dello scorso 4 Marzo in cui culture divere, lingue lontane e volti differenti si sono uniti recitando e raccontando insieme la storia dei popoli torna un nuovo evento dedicato al "Al-Mutanabbi Street Start Here-Project".
Una selezione delle stampe dalla collezione :
"Absence and Presence" della quale fanno parte incisori e stampatori da tutto il mondo scelti per devinire parte del progetto.

In 2013, printmakers from around the world were invited to make prints for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project. Each artist was asked to reflect and respond to the bombing of the bookseller’s quarter in Baghdad in 2007 and to be part of a global coalition of artists, poets and writers that states that wherever people talk freely and creativity breathes, Al Mutanabbi Street starts.

Printmaking is a physical process that leaves an imprint and yet retains its ability to recede, impress, layer and renew. In this vein, each printmaker will donate five prints from their edition to the project. As in our broadside and artist book project, one complete set of prints will be donated to the Iraq National Library in Baghdad. Two copies will join exhibits in the U.S. One copy will go to the UK (and be used as part of exhibits there and Europe, the Middle East and North Africa). One copy (in 2016) will join work from the project at the Herron Art Library (Indiana - Purdue University) and be digitized by them, becoming part of their permanent collection of work from this project. Dialog related to the exhibitions of the prints from "Absence and Presence" will begin in December of 2014 at the inaugural exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Additional exhibitions will be held in the US, UK, Middle East and North Africa from 2015-2017.

Artisti selezionati:
David B. Johnson
Cathy King
Mario LaPlante
Jodi Le Bigre
Roberta Loach
Josh MacPhee
Carl Middleton
Golbanou Moghaddas
Nicholas Naughton
Ozlem Ayse Ozgur
Frederick P. Tinsley
Phillip Robertson
Bev Samler
Liz Shepherd
Sarah Taibah
Dan Welden
Michael Williams
Nanette Wylde
Iram Wani
David Tim
Mokhtar Paki
Zaira Ahmad Zaka
Jasper Alford
Kahlil Bendib
Judy Bergman Hochberg
Adam Bridgland
Karen Chew
Khalifah Christensen
Michel Droge
Justus Evans
Juan Fuentes
Oscar J. Gillespie
Ronnie Goodman
Marcelle Hanselaar
Gary Harrell
Kathy Aoki
David Avery
Sherry Smith Bell
Kristine Bouyoucos
Martin Boyle
Jennifer L. Caine
Wilson Hill
Jaymie Johnson
Sara Lee
Carl Middleton
Margaret Roleke
Sarah Taibah
Matilde Dolcetti
Roberta Feoli