[Local events] Sun 2/25: Artist's Books & Prints from Nicaragua

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper presents/

    *The Matagalpa Artist' Printshop Project:*
    *A Show-and-Tell with Eckhard Froeschlin*


*Sunday, February 25*
4:30 pm

Free admission
Doors open at 4:00 pm; no late entry

*Passages Bookshop*
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209

info at passagesbookshop.com
503-388-7665

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*Eckhard Froeschlin* is a German book artist, printmaker, and painter, 
proprietor of *Editions Schwarze Seite*, and sometimes a somehow 
fanatical teacher.

Based on the sister city relationship between Wuppertal, Germany, and 
Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Eckhard founded the *Matagalpa Artist' Printshop 
Project* in 1998, following a request by two visiting artists from 
Matagalpa.

A first workshop proved that there was a stunning reservoir of talent, 
and the will to continue as a group named *TallerContil*. From workshop 
to workshop, from simple woodcuts to etching, from single prints to book 
art, the project developed into a unique opportunity in Nicaragua, 
attracting professional artists from bigger cities. Book art proved to 
be essential in this poor country, where one person out of every ten 
writes poems, and would be glad to see them printed.

Due to the more recent political climate, part of the group has had to 
emigrate, and an in-person workshop seems impossible at this time. 
However, the artists continue making prints — for an annual fine print 
calendar, for — and especially artist's books in growing intensity, 
communicating with their German partner via the internet.
Eckhard will show a selection of (small, suitcase-size) prints and more 
than twenty artist's books from Matagalpa, and will accompany some 
remarks with a brief slideshow.



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Passages Bookshop
NEW MAILING ADDRESS
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665

fine, rare, and unusual
books and graphic art
poetry, avant-garde art
fine printing, artist's books

www.passagesbookshop.com
facebook.com/passagesbookshop
instagram.com/passages_bookshop
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