artist’s books

Small Steps

Artist's Books, Prints & Objects,

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 can be flipped from both sides, offering various interpretation possibilities. In the center, a sequence illustrates the evolution from a quadruped (ape) to a biped (human). At the end, the human figure carries the title “Re Sol – Re Sole,” an ironic reference to the idea of humans as the pinnacle of evolution. All materials come from my collection or are second-hand items. The children’s shoes symbolize the youngest generation’s potential to reduce their ecological footprint. Furthermore, I would like to emphasize that small steps can bring about significant change.

Exhibitions:
• October 6 – November 24, 2023: Light on your Feet, GG3 / Group Global 3000, Berlin.

title: Small Steps
technique: Artist’s book / flip book. Graphite frottage, pencil, ink, collage on paper
size: 15,5 x 11 x 1 cm / 60 pages
year: 2023
© Maria Korporal 2023

“finally a bit of animation!”

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• March 31 – April 2, 2023: “finally a bit of animation!” Japan meets Berlin – exhibition and screening, Medienwerkstatt bbk Berlin.


Maria Korporal presents her installation / video book Invocation of the Stone

“Finally a bit of animation!” Japan meets Berlin – exhibition and screening

The Media Workshop celebrates the farewell of Lioba von den Driesch, the contact to the Japanese artist Yasuto Yura, organizer of the independent film festival “VIDEO PARTY”, and the new media lab with a screening and an exhibition. On display will be a wealth of animations of various kinds from Japan and Berlin.

Place: Media lab (Kesslhaus), entrance Marielle-Franco-Platz,
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Time: Friday 3/31/2023, 4 – 10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 4/01-02/2023 both 2 – 6 p.m.
Screening and welcome: Friday 3/31/2023, 6 – 9 p.m.

The Japanese program was selected from works of the festival “VIDEO PARTY”, curated by Yasuto Yura.
Artists from Japan
Yukari Goto | Kazuma Nakaichi | Kotoko Nakamura | Hiyori Naito | Saho Nanjo | Takumi Kataoka | Rika Mayumi | Mirai Mizue | Yuka Sato | Mika Seike | Ryota Takahashi | Shota Ueda | Chihiro Yamanaka | Keigo Yasui

Artists in Berlin
Heike Franziska Bartsch | Christa Biedermann | Catherine Biocca | Susanne Bosch / Ilka Forst | Daniela Butsch | Marina Camargo | Manuela Johanna Covini | Lioba von den Driesch | Jorn Ebner / Dan Thorpe | Juliane Ebner | Lauren Francescone | Helga Franz | GUP-py | Heike Hamann | Michael Hoepfel | Maki Ishii | julakim | Achim Kobe | Maria Korporal | Betina Kuntzsch | Verena Kyselka | Petra Lottje | Alessandro Maggioni | Astrid Menze | Manfred Miersch | Deborah S. Phillips | Katharina Poos | Tatjana Preuss | Isa Schmidlehner | Gaby Schulze | Wojtek Skowron | Barbara Steppe | Hiroko Tanahashi / Post Theater | Amalia Valdes | Lina Walde | Kerstin Weichsel | Gisela Weimann | Kim Annika Welling | Kerstin Wittelmeyer | Barbara Wolters | Yagama Jogmaya

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First Book Night

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After the successful exhibition Positions of artistic book and text production in Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler in April 2022, the works by all 24 artists will now be shown in First Book Night in the BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf from 30 June to 17 July 2022.

In this exhibition Maria Korporal shows some of her artist’s books with etchings and a book object made of wood from the 1990s.

Video of the opening on 30th June 2022

 

The exhibition Positions of artistic book and text production that took place in Berlin in April 2022 can now be visited as a virtual interactive 3D exhibition: korporalwebdesign.com/vbk

A video recording of the virtual exhibition can also be seen on Youtube:

 

 

Positions of artistic book and text production

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Exhibition in Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler
Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin

April 1-24, 2022

Opening: Friday 1.4.2022, 7  pm

Welcome: Sabine Schneider, 1st President VBK
Reading: Peter Schlangenbader

3 April 2022, 3 to 5 pm: Artist talk with the curators from Düsseldorf and Berlin
10 April 2022, 3 to 4.30 pm: Guided tour

Cooperation exhibition of Berlin and Düsseldorf artists.
Curation and project management: Sigrid Ehemann, Jutta Barth, Monika Bartsch
Participating artists: Jutta Barth (B), Monika Bartsch (B), Judith Brunner (B), Sigrid Ehemann (D), Anja Eichler (B), Sabina Flora (D), Jeanne Fredac (B), agii gosse (D), Sibylle Gröne (D), Margret Holz (B), Mauga Houba-Hausherr (D), Maria Korporal (B), Petra Korte (D), Ruth Kühn-Löwe (D), Siegrid Mueller-Holtz (B), Hyesug Park (D), Peter Schlangenbader (B), Peter Stauder (D), Klaus Stecher Klasté (D), Marianne Stoll (B), Andrea Streit (B), Gisela Tschauner(D), Helga Wagner (B), Ulrike Wamprecht (D)

• Download press release in PDF, with presentation of the exhibited works (in German)
• Download flyer in PDF

Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 3 pm-7 pm – Saturday-Sunday 2 pm-6 pm.
The current Corona rules apply!

The works by all 24 artists will later be shown in First Book Night in the BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf from 30 June to 17 July 2022.

In this exhibition Maria Korporal shows both some of her artist’s books with etchings and a book object made of wood from the 1990s, as well as a completely new work that has not been shown before: Invocation of the Stone, a projection of an animated film onto a handmade book with printed text. A selection that gives a good insight into her development from graphics to media art.

 

The exhibition can be visited as a virtual interactive 3D presentation: korporalwebdesign.com/vbk

A video recording of the virtual exhibition can also be seen on Youtube:

 

Invocation of the Stone

Invocation of the Stone

Recent Works & Highlights, Artist's Books, Videos, Highlights, Installations, Video Poetry, Prints & Objects, Works

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 Taschenbuch Verlag 1986

Exhibitions:
• March 31 – April 2, 2023: “finally a bit of animation!” Japan meets Berlin – exhibition and screening, Medienwerkstatt bbk Berlin.
• April 1-24, 2022: Positions of artistic book and text production, Galerie VBK Berlin.

Video and images © Maria Korporal 2022

In an Autumn Garden

Artist's Books, Prints & Objects

“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 name.

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 Berlin.

mixed media on wood
30 x 20 x 5 cm
© Maria Korporal 1994

Contrapuncti

Contrapuncti

Artist's Books, Prints & Objects,

“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 17, 2022: First Book Night, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf.
• April 1-24, 2022: Positions of artistic book and text production, Galerie VBK Berlin.

The book Contrapuncti tells the highlight of the legend of the Messinese diver Cola Pesce and emperor Frederick II. The half-man half fish Cola Pesce can stay under water for an almost unlimited period of time and thus search for the secrets of the sea in the deepest depths. The emperor wants to know the conditions of the foundations of his empire Sicily. He promises Cola Pesce a golden cup for his services. When the diver rises from the water and answers the question of the Emperor what he has seen: “Nothing, noble lord,” the Emperor does not believe him. Ignoring his supplication, he orders the diver to descend even further into the dark depth. This third and last time Cola Pesce does not come back.

The book Contrapuncti consists of two parts: Re maggiore (the emperor) and Re minore (the diver), each starting at the front or back of the book and converging in the middle. So the book has no back. If the book part Re Maggiore is opened, the triangular pages point to the top. The images represent organic forms in which one can recognize facial features, and are printed in warm red-brown and golden colors (the earth). The pages in Re minore point down and are in cool blue-green and silver colors (the sea). Re maggiore and Re minore each have five text pages, in which the legend is cited in as many languages.

– 10 etched images and 10 hand-printed texts on Hahnemühle paper
– format: an equilateral triangle with a side of 36 cm.
– edition: 50 copies, of which the numbers 1/50 – 30/50 are collected in a hand-bound book with hard cover, covered with gold-printed black velvet. The numbers 31/50 – 50/50 are separate prints that can be framed.
© Maria Korporal 1991

Satori Soractis

Satori Soractis

Artist's Books, Prints & Objects, ,

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 Berlin.

Inspired by Matsuo Basho’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, the artist made several meditative walks on Monte Soratte, during which she made numerous drawings that follow the lines and structures of the rocks and stones. These drawings became the basis for the etchings in this artist’s book.

Black silk-covered cardboard box (hardcover) made by hand in Japanese style with letterpress-title on front panel, grey silk and white paper on the inside of the box, 14,5 x 39,5 x 2,5 cms., containing artist’s book entirely printed on Japanese paper, cover made of slik mounted on paper and carrying the title printed above a sumi-e design, four pages with the quoted haiku texts were printed with nylon cliches, two copper plates used to produce each of the eight color etchings, i.e. aquatint and sugar-aquatint.

Artist’s Book in an edition of 40 copies. The cliche of the title, the frontispiece and the colophon were made by Korporal on copper plates. Each copper plate was printed by incorporating two colors mixed by the artist. The final prints are thus composed of 4 different basic colors. The binding was effectuated by using an antique Japanese method called Kangxi.

Sant’Oreste, 1990

Is a dot a black hole?

Is a dot a black hole?

Artist's Books, Videos, ,

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 sucked up again by the black dot in the flipbook.

The music is by Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli. “Knob-Twiddler” in the field of experimental music, fond of all possible links between sound and psychology, currently working on sounds and frequencies to be applied in several alternative cognitive-behavioral therapies in the treatment of various forms of DOC, freely inspired by experiments conducted by Jean Piaget in the 40s of last century.
All sounds of “Is A Dot A Black Hole?” were drawn up on Renoise 3.0.1 _

Belonging to the project HearteartH – see website www.heartearth.rf.gd

title: Is a dot a black hole?
technique: Experimental video and animation
length: 2’22”
year: 2015
concept and visuals: Maria Korporal
music: Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli

Drinking alone by moonlight

Artist's Books

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 cm, width open 100 cm.
© Maria Korporal 1995