Artist's Books (page 3)

Michalis Arfaras

Epigrammata, 2001
(unique copy, signed Michalis Arfaras)
94 loose sheets, illustrated by computer and placed in a clothbound box. Collection of the artist

Leoni Vidali
Bon à Tirer, 1999
intaglio simultaneous colour prints, offset printing, 24x17cm, © Leoni Vidali, Athens 1999. An edition inspired by and dedicated to artistic thought and the art of engraving and printing, with excerpts from the sayings of great painters and thinkers. "In quest of the Bon à Tirer; ...Engraving, plate-ink-paper, the language of shapes, lines, styles, raised and sunk surfaces. The pleasure stems from the wealth of materials and methods. Printing = the End and the Beginning at the same time" (L. Vidali, Bon à Tirer)

Stephen Antonakos
Alphavitos, 1986-1990
Unique book with silver front and back covers. 76 pages. Screenprints, etchings, handmade cuts, and collages on Arches and Dieu Donne papers and Mylar; signed by the artist on the colophon page. Aquatints, reliefs, photoreliefs, hard ground etchings, and chine collés printed by Julie D’Amario and Bill Hall, The Printmaking Workshop, New York; screenprints by Jo Watanabe, Brooklyn; silver work by Anastasios Mavropoulos, Athens, Greece; bound by Andreas Ganiaris, Athens, Greece, 19½ x 15½ x 2²/8.
Antonakos notes that his books, similarly to his rooms and chapels, because of being enclosed, ‘work like private arenas for inner experience. With the books, although the sequence is set, every viewer finds his or her own pace or rhythm of turning the pages. Within this conscious structure, it is the discoveries made by the unconscious that continually bring things to life" (Artist’s notes, in Cat. Stephen Antonakos: Inner Light, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., 1997)
Alphavitos, 1993
Alphavitos also exists in an edition of 8, published in 1993, with embossed leather covers, bound by Peter Geraty, Praxis Bookbindery, Easthampton, Mass.

Theodoulos

Book V, 1991
Triptych. Metal, glass, cement, drawing, 32x32x20cm
Edition of 35 copies
„Ileana Tounta Art Center”.

Book III, 1992
Diptych. Metal, glass, cement, drawing, silkscreen, 32x32x10cm
Edition of 50 copies
„Ileana Tounta Art Center”.

Despina Meimaroglou

The Mirror is always there, 1992
a selection of poems by Alba Ambert interpreted by Despina Meimaroglou. Printed in Athens in 1992 in an edition of 99 copies numbered and signed by the authors. The silkscreen images were printed by master printer Nicos Doucas on Velin B.F.K. Rives Blanc 300gr. 100% cotton, acid free and buffered paper. Hand bound by Andreas Ganiaris, 20x28,5cm.

A Pack of Lies, A.P. IV, 1997
a print portfolio, produced at Pyramid Atlantic during a residency in November 1997. Helen Frederick, Bridget Lambert and Oscar Gonzalez-Ceran proofed the image. Bridget Lambert printed the silkscreen edition with assistance from Trish Tillman with water-based inks on Arches 88 paper and Pergamentata. The lithographs were editioned by Oscar Gonzalez-Ceran on Arches Buff and Arches 88. The images were manipulated by the artist in Photoshop on a power Macintosh 6500/250. The image for the self-portrait was captured by a Sony Mavica Digital Still Camera by the artist who furthered manipulated them in Photoshop. The custom-made paper folio was editioned by Shannon Brock with assistance from Ann Roecklein. 
An edition of twelve copies with five artist’s proofs, three printer’s proofs, two trial proofs and one archive copy were produced. Portfolio: 54x41cm., lithographs: 54x40cm.


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