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Two RBSCD-Sponsored Talks in November
Dear Friends and Colleagues –
I am delighted to announce two November talks sponsored by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress. Please see below and attached for details. Both events are free, open to the public, and no registration is required. We hope to see you there!!
As always, feel free to reach out with any question.
Stephanie Stillo
When a Book Holds Your Memories
Lesia Maruschak, artist LJ 119,
Thomas Jefferson Building
Thursday November 2, 2023
5:00-6:00pm, Talk, Discussion, and Collection Display / 6:00-7:00, Community Bookmaking
For questions, contact Stephanie Stillo at ssti@loc.gov
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine, Lesia Maruschak will premiere a new in situ installation created especially for the Library of Congress. Titled, when a book holds your memories, the new body of work will become part of Maruschak's Project MARIA; hailed by the National Holodomor Genocide Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine) as one of the most important visual arts exhibitions addressing the famine-genocide. when a book holds your memories will provide the backdrop for a discussion of her three books on the Holodomor, two of which are in the collection of the Library of Congress, Transfiguration and MARIA. Maruschak's third fine art publication in the series Transfiguration: Spirits & Traces will be released in November 2023 and will be on view for the event.
In addition to a talk by Maruschak, when a book holds your memories, will include a community bookmaking activity for visitors. Reminding us that there is no one correct way to narrate history, visitor will encounter a room filled with photographic images of blurred portraits, sacred books, and landscapes blended with Soviet posters, excerpts from soldiers' notebooks and pages from children's readers. Visitors will be invited to take pages from the stacks, sew them together and create their own books—what Maruschak calls "containers for memories." No experience required and all ages are welcome to participate! These newly created containers of memories will be included in Maruschak's larger body of work on the topic.
About the Artist
Lesia Maruschak is an artist working across photography, performance, and the staging of ambitious installations within the landscape. Her practice is underpinned by rigorous research examining the land, histories of colonization, geopolitics, and exile. She has exhibited at 65 museums, galleries and art spaces worldwide. The National Holodomor Genocide Museum, Kyiv named her mobile memorial Project MARIA as the most important exhibition on the Soviet Ukraine famine-genocide. Maruschak's monograph Maria won the Kyiv International Book Festival Grand Prix Award and Experimental Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 Rencontres de Arles Book Award and the Athens Photography Festival Book Award. Maruschak's highly coveted limited edition art books are held in numerous collections including the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, Thomas Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Boston Athenaeum, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, Green Library-Special Collections at Stanford, Rare Books & Special Collections at the Library of Congress, and Butler Library-Special Collections at Columbia University.
Maruschak is the founder of the MENEZVUT and VYDNO Collectives and her work is supported by the Canada Council of the Arts, the Ukrainian World Congress, the Canada First World War Internment Recognition Endowment Council and numerous private foundations. Maruschak is the recipient of the General of Canada Silver Medal Award and Caring Canadian Award, Ukrainian Canadian Congress Saskatchewan National Builder's Award, and the Ottawa Woman of Inspiration Award. She is currently a Research Affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan, Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage. Lesia Maruschak (b. 1961) currently lives/works between Ottawa, ON, and Alvena, SK. She graduated University of Saskatchewan (MA), University of Ottawa (MBA) and completed fine art studies in the United States and Romania.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Franko Family Foundation.
From the Atelier Remond (1793) to the Atelier MUTEL (2023): The Rosetta Stone to the United States of Acid Didier Mutel, artist and printmaker
Lessing J. Rosenwald Room
2nd Floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building
Thursday, November 16, 2023 3:00pm-4:00pm Talk and Discussion, 4:00-5:00pm Collection Display
For questions, contact Stephanie Stillo at ssti@loc.gov
Since 1793, the Atelier Remond in France has been printing books, etchings, and engravings. Artist, master printmaker, and current studio manager Didier Mutel will use his current projects to consider why the slow and obsolete process of etching and engraving still challenges and inspires us today. He will address questions such as: Why and how is so much energy still released from these unique tools? What is the source of vitality flowing from young students and artists who visit Studio Mutel? This talk is a rare opportunity to engage with one of the most significant print and bookmakers in Europe and learn about the activities of the oldest etching studio in France. The event will also include a display of Didier's work currently held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.
From "The Birds of Acid," What I'm looking for does not exist
By Didier Mutel
Contrasts, opposites, play,
representations and, above all,
the understanding of matter,
the transparency of glass,
the imperceptible backbone of paper,
the invisible fibre,
the ink that flows soundlessly.
What I am looking for does not exist,
it is a movement and a wandering
on a sheet of paper. I know where that is,
it is a secret accompaniment
between musical intervals,
a construction, an architecture.
There is no centre,
this geography is a vast expanse of night
and the blue of the sky is an optical illusion
on which Van Gogh placed gold dust.
Create a familiarity with the design of the sky
and watch the stars that walk before us,
the construction of this space that I know
is the construction of a universe.
It comes from afar, pierces me,
links me to a family that spans time,
a large family that searches, doubts,
that tries, that starts again.
here, elsewhere, today, tomorrow.
About the Artist
DIDIER MUTEL has been producing artists' books and engravings since 1989. Born in 1971, he entered the École Estienne at 15, then studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and continued his studies at the l'Atelier National de Création Typographique à l'Imprimerie Nationale. From 1997 to 1999, Didier Mutel was in residence at the Villa Medici in Rome where he produced two collaborative books. In 2008, Pierre Lallier transfered the Atelier Georges Leblanc, and a significant portion of the historical equipment, to Didier Mutel, and in 2009, the studio moved to Orchamps in the Jura. Since 2003 Mutel has been teaching at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts of Besançon and is regularly invited by American universities for presentations and special courses. ATELIER DIDIER MUTEL is a Member of the Grands Ateliers de France, and in 2013 Didier Mutel received the prestigious title of Maître d'art. Most recently, he was awarded the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main, a juried prize for "exceptional talent" that recognized his recent book, R217A (2016), as a work "resulting from a perfect mastery of techniques and savoir-faire of artistic craft" as well as demonstrating "innovation, and contributing to the evolution of this knowledge."
His most recent work includes the monumental The First Atlas of The United States Of Acid (2017), Sidereus Nuncius (2018), Melencholia (2021), and the ongoing series, The Birds of Acid (2019- ).
Founded in 1793, ATELIER DIDIER MUTEL is the oldest etching studio in France. From a historical and artistic point of view it represents centuries of knowledge and a very high level of handcraft production. The studio is well recognized in France and abroad, and is highly specialized in traditional etching and printing processes, from conceptualization through to final execution. Through very specific projects the workshop combines traditional techniques and skills with contemporary methods of design and printing. The aim is to reopen the artistic field of etching and to carry on very challenging projects. Didier Mutel apprenticed to the studio in 1988, joining his master Pierre Lallier who ran it from 1968 to 2008. The studio moved from Paris to the Jura and after 5 years of renovation; its grand opening took place in 2014.
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