[artbooks] Tommaso Durante’s Skin, Surfaces And Shadows book launch at National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne.

Tommaso Durante’s Skin, Surfaces And Shadows book launch at National  
Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne.

  “Skin, Surfaces and Shadows [A triptych] by Tommaso Durante with  
text by Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a new limited edition and a stunning  
new bookwork which pushes the boundaries of art, craft and design by  
combining digital technologies with traditional techniques and  
materials.” —Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella online, March 2008

A book launch will be held at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery  
of Victoria at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia on the 29th  
of May 2008 at 6.30pm. It is about the latest artist book of Tommaso  
Durante, Skin, Surfaces and Shadows, in limited edition of 25 copies  
made in collaboration with the poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe.

The presentation of the bookwork will be made by the Melbourne  
Italian Festival in association with the National Gallery of Victoria  
and in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture [Italian  
Government Cultural Office], the Design Research Institute  
[Intervention trough Art] of RMIT University, World Poetry and the  
Australian Poetry Centre.

Introduction by Franca Smarrelli, Director of Melbourne Italian  
Festival. Special Guest speakers: Des Cowley, Manager, Rare Printed  
Collections, State Library of Victoria; Alex Selenitsch, Poet and  
architect, Senior lecturer, ABP, University of Melbourne. A selected  
reading from the bookwork by poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe will be the  
final touch of the presentation.

Tommaso Durante talking about the reasons for book-making says: “For  
me artist books are artworks in the shape of a book. Furthermore,  
artist books and paper sculptural books offer me the means to  
visually explore complex themes through a powerful symbolic shape.”

Tommaso Durante is still working with a range of media that includes  
sculpture-installations, paintings and artists’ books. His  
exploration, on the edge of art and philosophy, is focused on the  
theme of multidisciplinary cross-cultural practice and discipline  
with emphasis on bringing together public art and urban design,  
digital art and traditional media. His latest large site-specific  
installation, ‘The Chinese Window’, which is the first part of  
Tommaso Durante’s The Silk Road Project, is currently part of the  
permanent collection of Shaanxi University of Costume and Art in Xi  
An, China.

Tommaso Durante’s artist books are part of the most prestigious  
public and private special collections worldwide. They include: the  
Australian National Library, Canberra; Getty Research Institute  
Library, Los Angeles; Yale University Arts Library, New Haven, CT,  
USA; Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Collection, New York; Joan  
Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago; the State Library of  
Victoria, Melbourne, Australia and The Melbourne University Special  
Collection Library.

  Free entry – RSVP by 24.05.08 info at mif.net.au

  
  
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