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the beginning
Noirs, bleus, sables is a poet’s book, designed and
produced for book artists. Each artist who chose to become a
part of this collective creative project made the unbound
numbered book his or her own, transforming it into a unique
and personal work of art. The author proposed not only a
content, a theme, an objective, but also a situation: the text
is “inscribed in the pages”, not just printed; the negative
space is an integral part of it. This material and symbolic
space can be embellished, extended, transcended. Participating
artists had complete latitude regarding the use of the page (paper),
of the book (the sequence of pages), of publication (the
cultural references of the book arts). Each one was free to go
beyond the established forms, to transform the object into
something other, similar but distinct. The text served only to
suggest modulations, variations. The artists made it into
something entirely different, far from the traditional
correspondence of image to text.
The poet’s exercise was based on the exploration of
correspondences memories/colours. The text was divided into
five parts supported by five colours associated with five
different type faces. The orchestration (the page layout) of
the texts offered artists pre-structured spaces which may or
may not have served as reference points for personal
expression. The book’s “multidirectional” space (the poetic
space echoed by its typographical representation) was opened
to extension in any direction.
The book description
A first edition.
Produced by Édition d'art La Tranchefile in a "ready for
binding" format, the printing of 120 copies was completed on
September 15, 2001, in Montreal; typography by Isabelle
Chasse; 20 copies 39.5 cm x 24.5 cm were printed by Piezo
process coloured ink jet on 160 M acid-free Sundance Archive
felt cover stock (numbered I to XV); 100 copies 29 cm x 18 cm,
using xerography, were printed on 120 M acid-free Hammermill
Archive cover stock (numbered 1 to 96).
Excerpts from Noirs, bleus, sables were published in
issue 109 of the poetry magazine Estuaire in 2002. An
expanded version of the collection was published in a regular
edition in 2002 by Éditions du Vermillon under the title De
la lumière blanche.
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