Since the turn of the millennium I have been working mainly as a media artist, but in the 90s I worked a lot with painting and printmaking.
During these years I have made a number of artist’s books that have played an important role in my development as a media artist. This relates to the time-based aspect as well as the transformation of images and visual poetry. Each book is a sequence that tells a story or shows an evolution, just like my video works.
Recently I started to work with artist’s books again, combined with video and animation.
April 1-24, 2022: Exhibition Positions of artistic book and text production, Galerie VBK Berlin.
June 30 – July 17, 2022: Exhibition First Book Night, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf
The work is an animation film in the analogue form of a flipbook/artist’s book. It features imprints of children’s shoe soles, graphite rubbings on each page, accompanied by stamped images, drawings, and collages that depict animated sequences. The book...
Video book project by Maria Korporal. Animated charcoal drawing and digital animation projected on a handmade book with printed text. Text cited from the poem cyclus “Beschwörung des Steines” by Erich Fried, in “Reich der Steine”, Fischer...
“In an Autumn Garden” (1994) is a book object made of wood, with photomontages and etchings. It contains no text, but is a contemplation of the passing season through a sequence of images partly inspired by Toru Takemitsu’s musical piece of the same...
“Contrapuncti” (1991) is a triangular book, hand-bound in velvet. It consists of etchings between which are hand-printed text fragments in several languages recounting the southern Italian legend of Cola Pesce. Recent exhibitions: • June 30 – July...
Satori Soractis. Following Basho’s Roads an artist’s book by Maria Korporal Recent exhibitions: • June 30 – July 17, 2022: First Book Night, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf. • April 1-24, 2022: Positions of artistic book and text production, Galerie VBK...
The video departs from a flipbook. While the artist flips through the pages, a big dot comes alive. Or is it a hole? Many other smaller dots come out of it, fly into cyberspace and transform themselves – but at the end they loose themselves in a big spiral and are...
[slideshow_deploy id='9648'] An folded book and a scroll book with Chinese poems from the T’ang period (Li Po and Wang Wei). Mixed media and collage on different types of paper and fabric. Unique works. Size of the closed book 13 x 12 cm. Height of the roll 16...
[slideshow_deploy id='9634'] Series of small folded books with Chinese poems from the T’ang period (Li Po, Wang Wei and others). Mixed media and collage on different types of paper. Unique works. Size of each closed book 13 x 12 cm. © Maria Korporal 1995
[slideshow_deploy id='9645'] Series of small folded books with ancient Greek poems (Sappho, Simonides and others). Mixed media and collage on different types of paper. Unique works. Size of each closed book 13 x 12 cm. © Maria Korporal 1996