Thursday, August 16, 2018

FALSE FICTION FRACTURED FACT ALTERED by Marilyn R. Rosenberg coming out this Fall 2018! Post-Asemic Press #008

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Post-Asemic Press is pleased to announce the release of FALSE FICTION FRACTURED FACT ALTERED by Marilyn R. Rosenberg this October of 2018. The book is a great work of asemic abstract calligraphy. It was originally created as a one-of-a-kind artists' book. Marilyn explains here:


About this work-.



   The False Fiction Fractured Fact series started in 2001 with a diary/journal of 219 pages. Worked on throughout the blank bound purchased book pages in and out of order, MRR often returned to pages and to work on them again, as she still does in other new bookworks/artists' books. Related, are False Fiction Fractured Fact- THE OTHER SIDE, in 2008, a visual/asemic poem published 2009, on Michael Jacobson's’ web/ blog http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/  .

There is False Fiction Fractured Fact: take it with you, 2008 at https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/search?q=False+Fiction+Fractured+Fact%3A+take+it+with+youl 
And other works, including an asemic computer collage, False Fiction Fractured Fact: THE OTHER SIDE in 2008, on http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/  

   Concept started here with a new irritation, a bite of memory, and a triggered reference as a glimpse, with a ghost of an old idea. FICTION FRACTURED FACT ALTERED  can be read, continuing in both directions, and so has two beginnings and possibly no end, spiraling around, as do most of MRR’s bookworks, and can be read in more than one direction. So seeing is both forward and backward, up, down and around. 
     Broken unity, and hesitations in continuity, are so often concretely expressed by the fragmented circle. But, the complete circle does convey the absence of interruption, and many circles, whole and part circles are here. There are fish in various places, which for decades are the metaphors for groups, family or specific personalities. The name of a fish, the type of fish, gives the clue to its reason for being in the space it occupies. 
     Calligraphic marks can recount one side of abstract conversationsSometimes the open folio is one thought, but most often the facing pages are in dialogue, sometimes in heated contrast and possibly interacting or playing with the pages before and those pages ahead. Calligraphic drawing marks, indecipherable language, Ideogrammatic language, asemic poetry, is the language without known language, before written language, the language beyond any language. Varieties of Ideogram languages/ asemic narratives, tell abstract stories, of course. Interacting within themselves and with the viewer/readerthe pages do ask- are we filled with drawings or poems? Altered and added marks, layered, have hints of depth, space, and sometimes of darkness. Images of objects, and new marks together with those from this earlier series, develop new  groups of visual and asemic poems/drawings. 2018 computer collages are 90, or so, pages in this edition artists'  book -
FALSE FICTION FRACTURED FACT ALTERED.   Marilyn R. Rosenberg




BRIEF BIO -  Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Born in Philadelphia Pa, MRR is second generation in the USA and all of her family came from the Ukraine while it was under Russian rule. She and Bob have two daughters, 5 grand sons and one grand daughter. Through the years MRR has had a varied education, then in 1978, a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Studio Arts at Empire State College, State U of NY.  In 1993 MRR graduated with a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University, NY, NY. 

Marilyn R. Rosenberg, as usual, with actual and virtual collage, with pen and brush, stencils, ink, and gouache is making unique and edition images often in bookworks or artists' books. And using the mouse, the Mac, and scanner MRR makes marks, images and words. Since 1977 MRR has been in some one person exhibitions and very many international group exhibits. MRR’s works are part of early mail art, and in current interactions. Ongoing MRR makes artists’ stamps, bookmarks, artists’ books, visual and asemic poetry. A small percentage are created with collaborators. Many unique sculptural bookworks, and published edition works, and works in catalogs, zines and anthologies can be found in university, college and museum library collections.

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