Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library
18th December 2009 - 27th February 2010
A Collaborative Artists' Book Project curated by Mara Caruso, Secretaria Municipal da Cultura - Coordenação de Artes Plásticas, Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre / RS / Brazil
Eight groups were invited to join the project. Each group with a maximum of 15 artists produced a collaborative book by making a one-of-a-kind page each to assemble as a set of folios and send to Brazil. The theme - Bread: history, types of breads, Bread and..., Bread of... etc.
Each artist could make one single or double-page in any format of their choice. The maximum size was the book cover of 33 x 35 cm.
Artists groups in Malaysia, Spain, Italy, Britain and two groups from cities in Brazil, have participated in the project. The collaborative books will tour each of the participating venues. They were shown in Porto Alegre, Brazil in summer 2009, and in Vicenza, Italy, in October. After Bristol the tour continues on to Spain.
The photos here are of the show’s installation in Vicenza. You can watch a film of the exhibition opening in Brazil, which shows some of the books:
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=8lG62ArbW3s
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