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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2
MAY 1999
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Interfolds Marilyn R. Rosenberg Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. "Interfolds" is my own word both for the process of two parts folding in on each other and for my concept of the infolding of all elements in artists' books and booksworks. There are images that reappear in the same or in altered states in may works. Even with the its reoccurring images, in every case the work itself tells own story. Everything in each work is there for a reason, to be there although at first glance something may appear for decorative reasons alone. This is almost never true. Sizes are for the pieces closed. Some open to fill a table of the edition top. All of the one-of-a-kind and most works are signed and numbered.
Istoria Leonardo: What happened to Leonardo? One-of-a-kind, 1991. Hand sewn binding, layers, collage. 8'4 inches high x 5% inches wide, folds into a hard cover in a folder.
"A retrace and recastthe reticular responsive recounting recreation of
the re-invention of Leonardo Da Vinci." A
from the introduction of this
quote
visual narrative, of more than 65 layered and interfolded pages A variety of papers and media including water, color, collage, drawing and cord, images, and
reflective
Mylar.
Computer symbols act as secret code revealed at the end. A quote from the
"L.'s
eye: Inner Eye (fantasy, sought, noticed, or osmotic Eye imagination/Mirror observations of what is around him: animate and inanimate objects, like a precocious child with a clockwork). His Inner Eye absorbs the ideas ofthe society at large, the thinking, behavior or expectations. His Inner Eye absorbs the traditions, his hand practices the tricks
conclusion:
of his trade: L. is sometimes accepting and analyzing, sometimes improving or improvising, or at other times rejecting, feeling ambivalent or not interested. Purpose: L. seeks information, details to feed and supplement both his Inner and Mirror Eyes=his personal mimetic vision. Used among others: to feed his obsessive curiosity and his (left) hand; to leave something of himself for those after him, to deal with his own mortality (see his notes). Exhibitions: Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery; then Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. It was twelve days before my 7* birthday, and if my the grandparents had not left Russia at the turn of century, I could have there, grown up there, died there, near Kiev, at Babi Yar, on September 29 or 30, 1941. As I become the older generation, I remember. I feel ]I must tell about the Holocaust. Although I am part of everything I do, I rarely do work with clear Jewish themes, this is an exception. Remember Baba Yar, ("The Ravine of Women") One-of-a-kind, 1997, Herstory-History Series. Soft cover, closed approximate 11% inches wide by 15 inches wide, in a box book jacket. It unfolds to stand 5 feet wide. It has two scanned photo images of murdered women from German photo reproductions, 34 cut-out/drawing facsimiles of Jewish (star) badges, and 3 cut-outs scissor (drawings) of hands (bones). The paperhanger's is here. Fine, rough papers are
with miscellaneous
covered
media including
watercolor,
gauche, graphite,
color
pencils,
photocopy,
collage, plus cut out areas are in a hard black book jacket.
Made for "Women of the Book: Jewish Artist, Jewish of the Themes," traveling until 2000. 1997 Women Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes, Finegood Art 1999 Gallery, West Valley, CA. Opens February 4, Kutztown University, Sharadin Art Gallery,