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Traveling Light on a Short Journey
East Side, West Side

Item date(s): 1996

Gloria Helfgott


Pages: unpaged
Size: 250mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist


Place publication: Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: Artists Book
Cat. 149-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Bound in yellow leather suade and housed in a black drop-back box.

Colophon: Unique artist book constructed with Rives papers, photocopies on Somerset papers and hand bound by the artist at los Angeles, CA, 1996.

See review in "Artweek", December 1999. Volume 30. Issue 12 at page 21: The curator Gloria Helfgott's Traveling Light on a Short Journey exemplifies much of the work. Her book is a marvelously skilled sequence of cut, built-up and overlaid pages which both allude to the uncapturable personal resonance of a journey and to the idea of an artwork as involving the artist's freeplay with formal and material elements. The resulting object is of undeniable beauty and uniqueness, yet the significance of the object's singularity remains frustratingly elusive.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0149 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/11771











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