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Time: July 2, 2009 at 9am to August 8, 2009 at 5pm
Location: Sala da Fonte
Street: Paço Municipa
City/Town: Porto Alegre Brazil
Website or Map: http://www.librodeartista.i...
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Mara Caruso
Latest Activity: Jul 3
O Pão nosso - Livros de Artista / Our daily bread Artists’ Books
Sala da Fonte, Paço Municipa, Brazil (02/07/09 – 08/08/09)
A Collaborative Artists' Book Project exhibition curated by Mara Caruso, Secretaria Municipal da Cultura - Coordenação de Artes Plásticas, Atelier Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre / RS / Brazil
A Bakers Dozen - 13 pages of bread for O Pão nosso de cada dia / Our daily bread from Bristol, UK.
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 venues starting in Brazil from 2nd July at Sala da Fonte, Paço Municipa, Brazil.
The books will be shown in June in Porto Alegre, Brazil and in Vicenza, Italy, in October and Bristol and so on.
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