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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 30 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 31 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 20 cm x 24 cm, 2020

Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 27.5 cm x 19 cm, 2020

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth,

180 cm x 120 cm, 2019

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books and  bullets

Kingsley Gunatillake, Book of Violence, Used Book and charcoal,

20.5 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm, 2016

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books and bullets

Kingsley Gunatillake, Wounded Book, Used Book and charcoal,

22.5 cm x 14 cm x 1.5 cm, 2013

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books

Kingsley Gunatillake, Election, Used book, 15 cm x 21 cm, 2019

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books

Kingsley Gunatillake, Face, Used Book, 18 cm x 24.5 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, book pages

Mansha Chhatwal, Songs of a Coward, Book pages, Glue on Archival paper,

55 cm x 75  cm,  2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - A Full-Body Shave (Perumal Murugan), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 14 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Oppressed By Nights Of War

(S. Sivaramani ), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book – Buddha Murdered (M. A. Nuhman), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Sexualpathologie (Magnus Hirschfeld), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 29 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Mansha Chhatwal, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper

Mansha Chhatwal, Drawing the Line of Intolerance, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper, 55 cm x 37.5 cm each, 2019

Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

 

Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

Freeing the Book

 

“The Book – a traditional object, which nevertheless is capable of the most contemporary adaptation, yet retains an aesthetic dimension” – Mabel Kaufmann, The Book as Art and Idea


The concept behind the exhibition is to showcase and exhibit works of art that is made by using books, or by full time book artists. Book art is popular in the medium of artist's journals or sketchbooks but not known as medium where books can be altered to depict an idea. 
These books, be it historical or contemporary, also become the medium by which artists interrogate its form and structure, it's content and reinterpret it in their own practice. Reinterpretation of books takes the forms by drawing in them, carving them, tearing them, to convey contemporary issues of displacement, war, fantasy, nostalgia, or history.

2019
Artists
  • Arpita Akhanda
  • Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
  • Kingsley Gunatillake
  • Mansha Chhatwal
     
Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 29 cm x 40 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir III, Paper weave, 40 cm x 29 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 30 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 17.5 cm x 31 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 20 cm x 24 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arpita Akhanda, paper weave

Arpita Akhanda, The Dissected Souvenir, Paper weave, 27.5 cm x 19 cm, 2020

Freeing the Book

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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 35 cm x 27.5 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Ink on Kora cloth, 27.5 cm x 35 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, ink on kora cloth

Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, An-Nisa, Natural colour on muslin cloth,

180 cm x 120 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books and  bullets

Kingsley Gunatillake, Book of Violence, Used Book and charcoal,

20.5 cm x 14 cm x 2 cm, 2016

Freeing the Book

< Back

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books and bullets

Kingsley Gunatillake, Wounded Book, Used Book and charcoal,

22.5 cm x 14 cm x 1.5 cm, 2013

Freeing the Book

< Back

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books

Kingsley Gunatillake, Election, Used book, 15 cm x 21 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Kingsley Gunatillake, book art, Used books

Kingsley Gunatillake, Face, Used Book, 18 cm x 24.5 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

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Mansha Chhatwal, book pages

Mansha Chhatwal, Songs of a Coward, Book pages, Glue on Archival paper,

55 cm x 75  cm,  2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - A Full-Body Shave (Perumal Murugan), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 14 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Oppressed By Nights Of War

(S. Sivaramani ), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book – Buddha Murdered (M. A. Nuhman), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 26 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - This Earth of Mankind (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 24 cm x 15 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book, beeswax

Mansha Chhatwal, Brick or a Book - Sexualpathologie (Magnus Hirschfeld), Book page, Fibre, Beeswax and Blue Ink, 29 cm x 17 cm, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Mansha Chhatwal, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper

Mansha Chhatwal, Drawing the Line of Intolerance, Book ash, Acrylic medium on Archival paper, 55 cm x 37.5 cm each, 2019

Freeing the Book

< Back

Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

 

Freeing the Book

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Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

Freeing the Book

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Book Art Show, Manor

Installation

Freeing the Book

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