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Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith's artist book The Vitreous Body calls on the words of the classic Greek Parmenides for text, is illuminated by the artist's woodcuts and printed on translucent paper recalling the luminosity of ancient vellum. Yet the book is fresh and entirely contemporary. A meditation on light and vision, it is created by one of today's most exciting and original artists.
"Since the 1980s, Kiki Smith has been committed to an exploration of the human body. The artist's commitment to the representation of the body is rooted in her fundamentally humanist perspective. She has stated, 'I think I chose the body as a subject, not consciously, but because it is the one form that we all share: it's something that everybody has their own authentic experience with.' For Smith, the body is our existential condition, creating the possibilities and determining the limits of a life lived in a particular time and place.'" (Helaine Posner, from Kiki Smith, Bullfinch Press, 1998).
The woodcuts in The Vitreous Body were created using the Graphicstudio invented technique of heliorelief, which allows photographic images to be transferred to a block of wood. The image is then placed into relief not by traditional handcutting but by sandblasting. The text was printed from polymer plastic plates. Both images and text were printed on Japanese paper using a letterset press.
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