Aléa: poèmes de Réjean Beaudoin
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Artist:
Lucie Lambert
Press: Éditions Lucie Lambert
Document Type: Loose Sheets
Category: --12 folded sheets
Date: 1982
Dimensions: 19 x 24 x 4 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 L22 A4 1982 folio
Notes:
This limited edition (80 copies) artist’s book includes 10 orange-to-rust coloured etchings on folded loose sheets (Angoulême paper from the de Fleurac Mill) by Lucie Lambert. Réjean Beaudoin’s 10 poems, in French, accompany the art. The sheets are encased in a brown box that holds the copper plate used for the etchings. The poems consider the opposing influences of dreaming and being awake (poem 1), of sun and rain (poem 2), of the fortune of finding meaning in poetry and the ambiguity of the language used to write it (poem 6), and of the simultaneous accumulation and deletion or enduring and temporary nature of printed words and books (poem 10). The text also explores a flipping of object and subject: the library becomes the subject, not the dreamer within it (poem 1), and the strap of the sandal, instead of sandal itself or the foot that walks within it (poem 3). Since Beaudoin’s text is inspired by Lambert’s work, it models the visual literacy artists’ books require; we can consider the text to be representations of the etchings. One visual reading might be to think about how each design portrays a different ratio between the seemingly permanent ink and supposedly erased sections that create blank space. Another might be to ask if we see the subject in the coloured ink that surrounds the blank space, or in the blank space that represents the removal of colour? Where is the aléa (risk or hazard): in the colour or the space, in the subject or the object, in the presumed permanence of books, or decay following repeated use? The book is dedicated to the great Iraqi calligrapher Ghani Alani (1937–), now living in France, and is signed by both artist and poet. The etchings in this edition are taken from the 92 etchings in the original edition.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 09:58:00
Press: Éditions Lucie Lambert
Document Type: Loose Sheets
Category: --12 folded sheets
Date: 1982
Dimensions: 19 x 24 x 4 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 L22 A4 1982 folio
Notes:
This limited edition (80 copies) artist’s book includes 10 orange-to-rust coloured etchings on folded loose sheets (Angoulême paper from the de Fleurac Mill) by Lucie Lambert. Réjean Beaudoin’s 10 poems, in French, accompany the art. The sheets are encased in a brown box that holds the copper plate used for the etchings. The poems consider the opposing influences of dreaming and being awake (poem 1), of sun and rain (poem 2), of the fortune of finding meaning in poetry and the ambiguity of the language used to write it (poem 6), and of the simultaneous accumulation and deletion or enduring and temporary nature of printed words and books (poem 10). The text also explores a flipping of object and subject: the library becomes the subject, not the dreamer within it (poem 1), and the strap of the sandal, instead of sandal itself or the foot that walks within it (poem 3). Since Beaudoin’s text is inspired by Lambert’s work, it models the visual literacy artists’ books require; we can consider the text to be representations of the etchings. One visual reading might be to think about how each design portrays a different ratio between the seemingly permanent ink and supposedly erased sections that create blank space. Another might be to ask if we see the subject in the coloured ink that surrounds the blank space, or in the blank space that represents the removal of colour? Where is the aléa (risk or hazard): in the colour or the space, in the subject or the object, in the presumed permanence of books, or decay following repeated use? The book is dedicated to the great Iraqi calligrapher Ghani Alani (1937–), now living in France, and is signed by both artist and poet. The etchings in this edition are taken from the 92 etchings in the original edition.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 09:58:00
