Johannes Gutenberg 600 years & 550 years of book-printing
FRESH PRINTER'S INK AT BOOK ART SQUARE
"Platz der Buchkunst"
>Atelier
It Plein 19 - Oosterlittens/Rotterdam<
hal 3.1 - stand 550a + 552
52.
FRANKFURTER
BUCHMESSE
participating in the special event that was organized
to commemorate
JOHANNIS GUTENBERGIS
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Three guest-participants at the fair organized their
special
'two days printing event'
:
Das Museum Der Arbeit, Hamburg,
Correspondance Des Arts, Lodz,
Atelier It Plein 19 - Oosterlittens/Rotterdam
BOOK PRINT MANIFESTATION
and celebration of
15 years of Atelier It Plein 19
Joop Visser, Nancy
Knaap
en Jacob Baars
together with the Dutch poetess
Dorine Spoel and
German translater Monika Götze
made, in accordance to their nature,
a complete, new, bilingual
artists'-book
on the old presses available in the hall.
This took place on Saturday the 21st. and Sunday the 22nd. of
October
2000
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Publication from forumbookart
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Die Buchkunst unter einem Dach in Halle 3.1
Juwelen zeitgenössischer
Buchkunst
zeigt eine Ausstellung, auf der Pressendrucke, Malerbücher,
Künstlerbücher und Buchobjekte aus aller Welt vorgestellt
werden.
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Under one roof: Book art
in Hall 3.1
Jewels of contemporary
book art
an exhibition of
privat presses, artists'
books and book objects from around the world.
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Sous un toit, l'Art du Livre dans le hall 3.1
Joyaux du
Livre-contemporain d'Art
Une exposition qui montre des oeuvres imprimées traditionellement,
des livres de peintres, des livres d'artistes et des livres-objets
venant du monde entier.
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Toda la gama en un unico lugar en la sala 3.1
Joyas del libro artístico
contemporáneo
Aqui se muestra una exposición de impresos, libros de
pintores y artistas y valiosos libros muy interesantes de alrededor
de todo el mundo
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Gutenbergs Erbe
Hier gibt es viel zu sehen: Handsatz, Maschinen
in Aktion mit dem Geruch von frischer Druckerschwärze. So
bekommen auch Nichtfachleute einen Eindruck davon, was es heisst,
ein Buch, wie zum Gutenbergs Zeiten, von Hand herzustellen.
Papier, das man zum Drucken ganz besonderer Bücher braucht,
kommt aus der Bütte. Hier wird gezeigt, wie man Papier für
Bücher herstellt, die Jahrhunderte überdauern. |
Gutenberg's inheritance
There is much to be seen: hand and machine type setting, casting
tools and presses in action with the smell of fresh printing
inks.
This to give you an idea of what it means to produce a book
by hand, as it used to be done in Gutenberg's era.
Paper for proper books comes from the vat! Here we will show
you how paper is made to last for centuries.
Atelier It Plein 19
presents:
ARTISTS BOOKS
&
POP-UPS
and demonstrates its skills
in a special publication that is to be made at the fair
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L'heritage de Gutenberg
En attraction: outils de la typographie manuelle
et mécanique, ceux nécessaires á la fonte
du plomb, presse en action, le tout dans l'odeur de l'encre fraîche.
Démonstration de la technique artisanale et ancestrale
de l'impression du livre fait-main comme au temps de Gutenberg.
Un papier qu'on utilise pour imprimer certains livres précieux,
c'est le papier à la cuve. Il y aura une démonstration
de la fabrication de ce papier pouvant traverser les siècles. |
La herencia de Gutenberg
Aqui Usted podrá presenciar una gran variedad
de interesantes objetos: Tipografías de ajuste manual y
mecánico, instrumentos de fundición e imprentas
que esterán en funcionamiento todo el dia. El olor a tinta
de imprenta y las imprentas en acción, acercarán
también al publico neófito una primera impresión,
de lo que significaba producir libros en tiempos de Gutenberg.
Un Papel proviene de la tina: en este lugar se monstrará,
como producir papel para libros que sobreduran siglos. |
Press Release
from http://www.forumbookart.com
Special presentation of contemporary book art at the 52nd. Frankfurt
Book Fair,
18-23 October, 2000.
For the first time in its history, The Frankfurt Book Fair
will this year provide a special forum for contemporary book art.
Hall 3.1 will become 'Book Art Square', a place where the public will
enjoy an in-dept view of the world of letterpress-printed works, painters'books,
artists'books,and book-objects.
Along with Buch/Druck/Kunst Inc. in Hamburg (the Society for the
Support of Contemporary Book Art), the fair will provide a generous
platform for the presentation of contemporary book artwoks. Various
aspects of this multi-faceted genre will be displayed through a variety
of exhibits and demonstrations.
At Book Art Square, itself over 400 qm., you will find such exhibitions
as:
'Jewels of Contemporary Book Art' - an exhibition of works from all
over the world, spanning the wide spectrum of contemporary book art;
from classic letterpress printing, painters' and artists'books and
book objects, to the E-Book, the artistic re-interpretation of the
vertual book.
'Book Art New Forum' - the second exhibition at Book Art Square,
showing the latest work from the book art exhibitors in this hall.
It provides an overview of offerings from nearly 75 presses and book
artists from 14 different countries.
'One Hundred Words from the 20th Century' - showcasing ariginal examples
of the ways in which book art can interpret text typographically.
Book art kies at the center of Gutenberg Year 2000. Displays will
feature machine-set and handset type, the printing process of antique
hand-presses, hand-made paper, and the original grafic technique of
woodcutting. Printing museums from Germany and abroad will send specialists
to demonstrate the use of typesetting tools and historical machines.
Book printing museums will print their own book-fair newspaper on
the spot, which will be offered hot off the original Heidelberg press
to those present.
Wilfried Bohne and Tita do Rêgo Silva, both woodcut artists,
will demonstrate different methods of color woodcut printing. Gangolf
Ulbricht, a paper-maker from Berlin, will hand-make high-quality paper.
The 'Book Art Directory 3.1' will make visiting hall 3.1 easy, giving
you brief descriptions of artists, their location in the hall, as
well as their mailing adresses.
Other Highlights of Hall 3.1:
'Stiftung Buchkunst' presents two other exhibitions: 'International
Book Art' and 'The Most Beautiful Books of Germany'
Poland, the fair's special guest country, will be featured in an
exhibirion of artists'books, painters'books, and book objects.
The ARION Press of San Francisco will present what is possibly the
last handset and book-press-produced Bible - a masterpiece of typography
and handiwork - as a kind of keystone to an epoch.
A CD-ROM available from Bartkowiak forum book art will show
the life's work of Johannes Gutenberg. The postcards, created by over
150 artists, which make up the 'Mail-Art-Action' homage to Gutenberg
are also on display.
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