LIBRO DE ARTISTA

October 11 through November 22, 2024

Opening Reception Friday, October 11 from 6-8 PM
The Nancy Cantor Warehouse
Sue & Leon Genet Gallery

Punto de Contacto-Point of Contact (POC), in partnership with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina (MNBA), and the Museum Studies Program at Syracuse University, presents the exhibit Libro de Artista, a showcase of the National Museum’s Artist Book Collection, coming to Syracuse University for its first showing in the United States.

More than 60 pieces from the institutional collection will be featured in the upcoming show. A presentation by Matías Roth, MNBA executive and curator of the show, will be followed by a reception. Admission is free and open to the public.

Libro de Artista encompasses works by Latin American creators including its latest accession to the collection, La Dama del Río, a piece coauthored by Argentine artists Pedro Roth and the late POC founder, Pedro Cuperman, who was a professor at Syracuse University for more than 40 years.

Artist books occupy an important place in a creator’s life. They are notebooks, sketches, projects, and ideas that, at times, serve as the seed for future art pieces, and can also transfigure into true works of art themselves.

The Libro de Artista exhibit comprises works from different periods by artists in their explorations around painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and drawing. Using different techniques, formats, and materials, artist books take many forms on paper, cardboard, celluloid, acrylic, metal, and other materials, transforming into boxes, intervened prints, collages, and pop-up books.