Artist's Book Yearbook 2003-2005 - Book Arts - University of the ...

For some years Morena Coppola studied art
and art history, attended exhibitions and tried
many different mediums in search of a
instrument for her unique voice. In 2000
she found the artist’s book and began
experimenting and investigating the many
possibilities. Morena believes that the book is
part of the individual, that it challenges and
gives advice about the discipline, that it follows
the thought process until a solution is found
and one is ready for the next level of
exploration. She feels it expands creativity and
softens the encounter when diving into a
surface. In the book, there is a passionate
emotion that has no room for compromise.
“An artist book is a kind of expression of my
soul, it’s a self-portrait, a declaration of
correspondence with myself, with my words and
my feelings for others. It’s my thoughts
expressed to others who want to interact, it’s a
diaphragm-volcano that doesn’t want to stop,
and it discovers facts that I cannot understand
rationality. It’s always surprising. But it’s also a
response to that with which I do not agree.
It is the possibility of political reply and the
opportunity to reveal and redeem by
disagreement. It’s a strong wind, it’s convincing
to the extreme, it’s passion. Each book is a sort
of homecoming to Pompeii where, upon
arriving, one finds it is their hometown. It’s
resting in the sleeper’s vegetable-garden, its
relief at the Temple of Isis, its magnificent
collaboration.”
Lia Malfermoni Erranti 224 x 40 cms (open), 49 x 49 cms
(closed), mixed media, one-of-a-kind, 2002
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Lia Malfermoni began making artists’ books
in 2000 after becoming interested in the
possibility of working in three dimensions.
She began to extend her explorations to
include the sequencing of words and images,
using them to communicate emotions and
thoughts and as a declaration of her passions
and beliefs. She feels that the book also holds
an element of play, a game. As Lia has
described it, an artist’s book is
“experimentation, revelation, learning, work,
memories, discussion, the meeting, the
moment, the risk, the telling, the passion, the
becoming, the listening, the sensibility, the
glancing, the soul.”
Above and below: Lia Malfermoni Corpetti
25 x 35 cms, woodcut & watercolour
edition of 7, 2002