Tommaso Durante's new artist book, 'Skin, Surfaces and Shadows',
in collaboration with the Australian leading poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe, in a limited edition of 25 copies available for sale.
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TOMMASO DURANTE Skin, Surfaces and Shadows text by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE |
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Finely crafted and visually stimulating bookwork produced by TommasoDurante. Set in digital typefaces Utopia STD Display and Frutiger. Printed by Brian Gilkes at Pharos Editions 8 inkjet colour pigments on Somerset Book White 175gsm. Bound by George Matoulas. Section sewn around 3 tapes. Full paper binding with blind blocking on front cover hand made head and tail bands. Dust jacket embossing designed by Tommaso Durante, printed by Martin King on Rives BFK 250gsm. head to tail 260mm, spine to foredge 210mm, depth 26mm. 80 pages in limited edition of 25 copies plus 6 artists’ proofs, all signed and numbered by the artist and the poet. Text in English. |
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‘Skin, Surfaces and Shadows’ book launch was held at National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne (Australia) on the 29th of May 2008 The artist book was also presented by an artist talk at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra on the 12th of June 2008. |
Tommaso Durante is a visual artist and freelance lecturer in History and Theory of Art. He was born in Italy.
Tommaso used to show internationally and travel around Europe and Americas before moving to Australia in 2001 -
under a Visa as Distinguished Talent for Art.
His artistic production is focused on the edge of art and philosophy and connects digital technology to traditional media
in the aim to explore the boundaries between abstraction and materialism.
Durante tries to translate the imitation of ideas by transposing them into other ideas: sculpture-installations, paintings and artist books. He also works around a definition of art as characterized by complex linguistic themes and resolutions, crossing the fields of art, craft and design.
Durante’s bookworks are part of prestigious public and private collections and they have regularly been exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide.
| inquiries to Tommaso Durante - 20 Somers Road Warrandyte, Victoria 3113 AUSTRALIA Phone +61 (0) 3 9844 5465 |
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