(II International Arsenal Book Festival in Kiev) + (two suitcases of the most beautiful work from the MA Book Arts graduates of Camberwell College of Arts, UAL)
Random reflections on the experience:
1. Kiev is an extraordinary city, with superb food, warm people (and radiators), splendid architecture, a whiff of the Soviet past. A fine fusion of the old and the new and the borrowed and the blue.
2. Unsurprisingly, in preparation to the show things did not go to the plan: some shoddy paintwork, wrong angles, etc. It must be in the nature of things not go to the plan - England or Ukraine. I am yet to experience a miracle of flat plasterwork and seamless paintwork.
3. Against all the odds - the stand looked superb. The best. (see the next post on the Art of Book and Book Arts).
4. I met some inspirational people and it has been a lesson in many areas. It has also been an intensive course of Russian - total immersion, as they call it in linguistics. I have revived my nearly extinct knowledge of the language - and it was a good laugh too. Thanx to all involved!
Мистецький Арсенал, Kyiv |
Egidija Čiricaitė |
Egidija Čiricaitė |
Егідія Ціріцайте «Мистецтво створення дизайну книг» "Masterclass" on book design - it was a new and very positive experience to teach the audience this size. |
Егідія Ціріцайте «Мистецтво створення дизайну книг» "Masterclass" on book design - it was a new and very positive experience to teach the audience this size. |
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