ANTES DEL SILENCIO.; Diseño e ilustración: José Emilio Leyva Azze
Holguin, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2020. handmade book with printed letterpress on handmade recycled paper with with colotypes and monochromatic linotype prints, color illus. pict. wrps., with saddle stich binding, plus one cut-out motif of illuminated butterfly with sting attached and used as bookmark. With exposed stitched binding (Japanese bookbinding). Inserted one certificate of authentication sheet (23 x 15 cm), with publisher stamp in red and number of volumes written by hand in black ink. The 26 leaves of linoleum prints are intervened with sewn elaborated stitches. The covers were printed with a collagraph and with a collage that combines linoleum printing with acrylic blue paint, embroidery motifs and one tipped-in cut-out butterfly colored motif. A "certificado de autenticación" is laid in with the colophon information. Item #116705
ISBN: 9789597163657
NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION OF 100. This handmade edition with a collection of poems illustrationed and designed by the Holguín visual artist José Emilio Leyva Azze. “To know Rafael Mosqueda through his poetry is to touch and feel his soul and his loving city. Legitimate Baracoano, Mosqueda, sculpts and paints its people, its streets, its old city. He knows a lot about his history and reflects the best feelings of love and fraternity of his countrymen.. We cannot reduce him to a painter, singer or poet; Let us say simply: MASTERO!” (HKB Translation) --Page [3]. A "Certificado de Autenticación" is laid in with the colophon information. Printing using early 20th century press machines: Linotype Mergenthaler Linotype Co. brand 1900 the Chandler and Price press Co., 1899, typography and 18th century vignettes and direct printing up flat against specimens were illustrated by linotype engraving, monotypes and interventions. Artistic realization by Boris Ángel Dorrego Bergantiño, Yanely Esquijarona Abradela. CONTENTS: Prólogo / Roberto I. Pun Jaime -- Ciudad mía -- Cantos -- Mi payaso -- Diurno -- Nocturno de la ciudad -- Nostalgia -- Árbol del amor -- Azares -- Otredad -- Recuerdos -- Primavera -- Un día.
Price: $120.00