The Artist’s Book Biennale is taking place in Rodez

The 4th Artist’s Book Biennial presents itself in the best possible way. Under the leadership of the Art in Folio association, the show which will take place on November 9 and 10 in the village hall, with nearly forty artists and representatives of publishing houses, is already making waves. While a conference will be given on Wednesday on the question of artists’ books (read elsewhere), two real gems are being unveiled at the Fenaille museum. Two illuminated books of hours, one for the use of Troyes and the other for the use of Rodez, belonging respectively to the Society of Letters and the media library, are exceptionally revealed. Two true masterpieces created in the 15th century, the finesse of the design leaves one admiring.

They are both exhibited in a room of the Fenaille museum, located at the end of the visit. “These works are survivors of the past”slips the director of the museum Aurélien Pierre, delighted, alongside the representatives of Art in Folio and the Society of Letters, to be able to present them. Given their fragility, they will only be on display until November 10. But it is possible to observe them more closely on your computer, these two collections having been digitized. And observe even more closely the remarkable finesse of the work carried out.

René Duran’s paper towels

“With the exhibition that we are preparing at the Denys-Puech museum on the manuscripts of René Duran, some of which are on paper towels, we will sweep away 500 years of history,” rejoices Caroline Gil. Exhibition which will be on view on November 9 and 10, during the Biennale.

“We will also be present at the Soulages museum, with a conference on October 31 on paper mills in Aveyron,” continues Patrice Lemoux.

The Artist’s Book Biennale therefore takes up residence almost everywhere in the city, what’s more with these wishing trees that it has installed at the town hall, the MJC and the neighborhood houses (read elsewhere) but also the different exhibitions around paper which will flourish in the city’s galleries.