Evidence Vol. 48, 6134, 27, 537, 1129 2011
Ania Gilmore & Annie Zeybekoglu, USA
| Evidence Vol. 48, 6134,
27, 537, 1129, Ania Gilmore and Annie Zeybekoglu, Boston, USA, 2011 Evidence Vol. 537 is the echo of the senseless bombing on March 5, 2007 of Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of the Baghdad literary, cultural, and intellectual community. One patiently gathered up pages that survived the blast, and then brought them back to life bound together, as if someday they could be used not to just bring the bombers to justice, but also to account for their attempt to kill books and the culture that surrounds them. The thread harkens back to human hair, as the resonance of lives lost in that timeless moment after the blast, one moment of silence before the first scream was heard, before the first bits of flesh and pages began to rain down from the sky. Al-Mutanabbi poems, found Arabic text Found text, ash, wax, graphite, black thread, bookboard, image transfer, waxed linen. 6.5W x 9.5H x 2.5D in. Edition of 5. Born in Warsaw, Poland Ania Gilmore is a graphic designer, painter and a mixed media artist. She works in her studio in Lexington, MA creating artist's books, prints and paints Japanese Sumi-e. Ania received a BFA with honors in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, studied printmaking and book arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. Ania received recognition and awards and curated shows in the United States and internationally. Her work is in private collections in Poland, Romania, UK, Iraq and USA. design@aniaart.com www.aniaartstudio.com Born in New York City, Annie Zeybekoglu has a BFA from Smith College and an MAT in Fine Arts from Harvard. She has taught drawing, painting and book design in the Boston area for over 20 years, and has worked for 18 years as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She has been a mixed media painter and book artist for most of her adult life. Her work is in collections in Boston, New York, Turin, and Istanbul. She lives and works in Boston, and spends summers on the Aegean Sea, in the Turkish coastal town of Cesme Dalyan with her husband and two sons. anniezey@gmail.com www.anniezey.com |