Lesley Mitchell at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia

A La Milonga / At The Milonga an artist book by Leslie Mitchell
exhibition
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Philadelphia Artists’ Books Travel to Venice
Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers Members’ Exhibition

 

Lesley Mitchell’s At the Milonga unfolds in myriad ways to reveal a Buenos Aires dance hall with musicians and dancers, and as the wings of the book open and the folds simultaneously tumble towards the viewer, the perspective brings the heads of joyful or serious participants right up to my face. Surely, I am the dancer next to the couple in front. I feel their breath. I hear the music...

For Balada para un Loco (Song for a Madman), she took the popular ballad of a musician and a poet in 1960s Argentina and made an accordion-fold of 18 four-by-four pages, both back and front. She made prints, then painted atop them, then applied the text. This was scanned into a computer, and then her husband "worked very, very, very hard" to get the color on archival photo paper exactly right.

By Dea Adria Mallin, Weekly Press

 

See leslie's work and the work of 31 other artists in the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers Members’ Exhibition. The exhibition will be traveling to Venice, Italy.