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Press Release Mid Manhattan Library The Art Collection 455 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871 Contact: Arezoo Moseni "Making Images & Type" A site-specific installation by Raymond Verdaguer http://www.rverdaguer.com/s.php?id=54 Date: 02-30 March, 2006 Location: 5 th Avenue Windows The Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library is pleased to present a site-specific installation by the accomplished French born engraver Raymond Verdaguer. " Making Images & Type" is the result of several long dialogues between the artist and the art librarian Arezoo Moseni and the subsequent preliminary sketches and the maquette. " Art in the Windows" was initiated by Arezoo Moseni in January 2001. Three solo exhibitions are scheduled per year and "Making Images & Type" marks the 12 th . This exhibition is dedicated to librarian Sue Vial who passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Original engravings and carved blocks along with a copy of the hand-made art book "Occitanian Melody" (Melody Occitane) will be on display in the library windows located on 5 th Avenue. The installation presents two extremes of purpose in creating images and types, produced in two different locations with the span of 25 years. Viewers will encounter different stages of the print titled "Can you teach a social conscience?" created for the cover of Queen's University Alumni Review. " The title of the cover was then drumming in my mind as a reminder of the existence of life, and the meaningful choices to be made during the very short time we 'serve' on the earth?Sue dedicated her life inspiring others to discover ideas and thoughts found in books." In "Occitanian Melody" Verdaguer illustrated 26 poems with 32 wood engravings for a collection of poetry by the French poet Denis Rejane. The woodcuts are engraved in several different blocks of wood to produce the various colors. Each alphabet in the text is engraved and cut out of line, then pasted together on a wood plaque. " I compose each line of the text from individual letters, refusing to succumb to the ease of silk-screening or having it printed." The limited edition of 45 entirely hand-printed by Verdaguer himself, consists of 14 wood engravings with 4 to 7 colors each plus 12 of Denis Rejane's poems and 2 text pages in black and white. "In this series of prints, Verdaguer has made a successful exploration into the most ancient of printmaking processes. He is carrying on in a 500-year-old European tradition of woodcut book illustration, and by including the typeface as part of the total work of art, has produced a rare volume." Susan Gransby, The Vancouver Express. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]