[GBW] Artist Book event by GBW member in Australia

[Cris C Takacs <crisctakacs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tommaso Durante sent in this press release on his new artist book. If anyone would like to see the lovely item, I can send along the file by e-mail.

Cris Takacs, Membership, GBW crisctakacs@xxxxxxxxxx



TERRA AUSTRALIS

 

"Terra Australis is an artist's book made of holes, stones, water, soil and air, traversed by time and pervaded by melancholy. Every page opens on the edge of a measured visual abyss where the invitation to venture through the deep and impenetrable matter is both dangerous and real". Tommaso Durante 

 

The Italian Institute of Culture is proud to present the launch of the artist book Terra Australis by Tommaso Durante on Thursday 18 March 2004 at 7.30pm. An evening of both art and poetry, this special occasion will take place in the spectacular setting of the Cowen Gallery within the State Library of Victoria. Guest speakers include Penny Hutchinson, Director, Arts Victoria; Assoc. Prof. Su Baker, Head of Art, Victorian College of the Arts and Prof. Emeritus Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Director, Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.

 

Born in 1956, Tommaso Durante is a highly established Italian contemporary artist. In addition to exhibiting on a regular basis, he has created a number of artist books which reflect his view of life and of art itself. 

 

Durante's latest publication, Terra Australis, is a collection of suggestive images, elaborated by digital painting, which allude to the beautiful bright reds, blues and variegated shades of black and grey, that the artist perceived from his very first meeting with the local land. Accompanying the images is a unique and prestigious selection of ten poems, presented both in English and Italian. Each text is written by a different Australian author.

 

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