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The valise = La valija = A valise / César Aira, May Castleberry (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content), Elizabeth Zuba (Writer of supplementary textual content), Johanna Calle, Matías Duville, Pablo Duville, Maria Laet, Mateo López Parra, Nicolás. Paris, Rosângela Rennó, Christian Vinck Henriquez, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library Council
Books
FA.SA6.3193
95 pages ; 18 cm + 1 volume ( 88 pages , 18 cm) + 2 posters (11 x 16 cm , 71 x 102 cm) + 1 volume ( 20 pages) + 1 album (23 x 31 cm) + 37 prints + 1 kidney shape object (6 x 17 x 6 cm) + 1 handscroll (51 x 218 cm) + 1 volume (24 pages) ; + 1 envelope (5 x 5 x 2 cm) + 1 map (80 x 204 cm , folded 11 x 26 cm) + 1 sound disc (12 in) + 1 double-headed glass bulb + 1 title pamphlet ( 21 pages ) in carrying case in a carrying case (12 x 61 x 36 cm); 12 x 61 x 36 cm
2017
César Aira, Johanna Calle, Matías Duville, Maria Laet, Mateo López Parra, Nicolás Paris, Rosângela Rennó, Christian Vinck Henriquez
Valise (i.e. carrying case with handle) containing: original prints, maps, artist’s books, airmail envelopes, origami toys, posters, a sound recording, and a hand blown glass sculpture with a seed. Offset-printed book. Edition of 113.
"Leslie Miller and Brad Ewing at The Grenfell Press printed the letterpress, woodcut, and silkscreen works. Mark Tomlinson designed the carrying case, custom-made by Portfoliobox, and created the interior architecture to support each piece. He folded origami and curving pieces by Nicolás Paris, and worked directly with Maria Laet and Rosângela Rennó to produce covers for, respectively, their scroll and map. Mark Tomlinson oversaw the production of the hand-made wrappers, with hand calligraphy by Mary Teichman, for all of the artworks. Meredith Broberg, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and John Iversen and Carolyn Conrad-Iversen, at J. Iversen, Inc., in Easthampton,New York, hand-cut selected prints by Mateo López for cut-paper architecture pop-ups. Additionally, for the deluxe edition, John Iversen hand-painted Nicolás Paris's design on each carrying case."--Title pamphlet (Colophon)
"The printed edition, published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, presents a selection of artworks responding to the idea of travel and to Aira's novel Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero (2000), both the original Spanish edition and the English translation, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006). The novel concerns the surreal story of an 1837 journey through South America by the German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, an associate of the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Designed to fit in a special valise (a carrying case), the works include original prints, maps, artist's books, airmail envelopes, origami toys, posters, a sound recording, and a hand blown glass sculpture, all reflecting the artists' shared affinity for geography, travel literature, and book-making."--MoMA Library website (viewed on October 17, 2017)
"Leslie Miller and Brad Ewing at The Grenfell Press printed the letterpress, woodcut, and silkscreen works. Mark Tomlinson designed the carrying case, custom-made by Portfoliobox, and created the interior architecture to support each piece. He folded origami and curving pieces by Nicolás Paris, and worked directly with Maria Laet and Rosângela Rennó to produce covers for, respectively, their scroll and map. Mark Tomlinson oversaw the production of the hand-made wrappers, with hand calligraphy by Mary Teichman, for all of the artworks. Meredith Broberg, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and John Iversen and Carolyn Conrad-Iversen, at J. Iversen, Inc., in Easthampton,New York, hand-cut selected prints by Mateo López for cut-paper architecture pop-ups. Additionally, for the deluxe edition, John Iversen hand-painted Nicolás Paris's design on each carrying case."--Title pamphlet (Colophon)
"The printed edition, published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, presents a selection of artworks responding to the idea of travel and to Aira's novel Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero (2000), both the original Spanish edition and the English translation, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006). The novel concerns the surreal story of an 1837 journey through South America by the German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas, an associate of the explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Designed to fit in a special valise (a carrying case), the works include original prints, maps, artist's books, airmail envelopes, origami toys, posters, a sound recording, and a hand blown glass sculpture, all reflecting the artists' shared affinity for geography, travel literature, and book-making."--MoMA Library website (viewed on October 17, 2017)