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featured by GoSee SHOP : ‘Welcome to the Grand Hotel of Feelings’ - a poetic picture book by Berlin-based illustrator Lidia Branković (Hatje Cantz)

Hatje Cantz, the publishing house specialized in illustrated books on art, is continuing its illustrated children’s book series and invites readers to the Grand Hotel of Feelings, where all kinds of feelings frequently come and stay. It’s a place where each guest has unique needs. Anger, for instance, is very loud and needs plenty of space to scream and shout. Giving her a small room away from the others wouldn’t be a good idea at all. Sadness, on the other hand, speaks in a small voice and occasionally floods the bathroom. Gratitude likes wandering about in nature; you never know when she might come and sit by your side.

Some feelings are big, and some are small. Some are pleasant and fun, like confidence, coziness or joy, while some are tricky and demand your complete attention. They may tend to get a bit complicated if not dealt with – but no feeling is ever turned away. At the Grand Hotel of Feelings, there is room for everyone!

Illustrator LIDIA BRANKOVIĆ (*1997, Berlin) graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in 2022 with a degree in Visual Communication. LIDIA draws inspiration to develop and illustrate her stories chock full of multicultural flavor and whimsical charm from her hometown Berlin. The Grand Hotel of Feelings is her first book. (32 pages, hardcover, 302mm x 216mm, ISBN: 978-3-7757-5594-8).

LIDIA : “Growing up in Berlin, as a child of migrant parents from Serbia, I was exposed to many different cultures and worlds early on. Today, I find great joy in materializing the worlds within my own mind into pictures and stories.”
08.11.2023 show complete article

 

featured by GoSee ART : GoSee Book Tip : Welcome to the lithographer’s workshop! ‘Die Lithografin’ by Gaby Bazin (Hatje Cantz)

Die Lithografin’ is a lovingly crafted children’s book about the interplay of colors. Step by step, author and illustrator Gaby Bazin reveals the secrets behind the art of lithography, a centuries-old printing technique that can be so amazing, it even seems like magic.

With a blend of science, art, history and playful illustrations, she explains how water and oil don’t mix or how drawings vanish and then later reappear. In this workshop of a book, materials are drawn, inked, etched, rolled, and ground with sand until magical pictures can be printed.

This wonderful book is illustrated in lithographic style – in blue, red, and yellow – and takes us on a journey back to the origins of this fascinating reproduction technique. It tells of the many attempts inventor Alois Senefelder made more than two centuries ago to be able to print multiple copies of ideas, musical notation and art more easily. He experimented like a chemist until he succeeded in giving stone the gift of memory.

To this day, lithography has remained a special art form, while at the same time, serving as the very basis from which the techniques have been derived which are still used to print books, newspapers, and posters in our day and age.

GABY BAZIN (*1992) lives in Pantin, France, but grew up near the French Mediterranean coast. While studying Applied Arts in Paris, she discovered her love for books and making them. Today, she is a graphic designer, illustrator and printer as well as a member of the collective La Briche Foraine in Saint-Denis.

The book is featured in the section Children and Young Adults. “As an art book publisher, we’re good at photos, illustrations and text. What could be more befitting than to enable our children, in this digital world, to enjoy marvelous experiences on paper with their eyes, ears, hands, minds and hearts through good books?” CEO Nicola von Velsen, Hatje Cantz Publishing.

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25.10.2023 show complete article

 

featured by GoSee ART : GoSee Book Tip : Anastasia Samoylova ‘Image Cities’ (Hatje Cantz) - a visual study of the increasing integration of the photographic image and the urban environment

Anastasia Samoylova takes us on a journey through fictitious cities. Her photography is full of masterful refinements of the existing clichés of urban photography: Minuscule human figures, dwarfed by giant ads on billboards, stroll seemingly indifferent through city space, their faces and bodies refracted through glass like collages.

The result of an artisanal working process in which anonymous, royalty-free images from the internet are printed, cut out, assembled and montaged until they become three-dimensional, in order to return to a two-dimensional form upon being photographed.

Samoylova consciously engages with cliché, deconstructs and recomposes it, taking it to a level of pictorial sophistication that eludes any simple statement. Instead, she invites us to reflect on photography’s role in creating a gap between branded urban identity and lived reality. Ubiquitous throughout the series is a tension between the natural and the artificial, between anonymous and authorial photography.

The photographer on Instagram: All images have an agenda. They are not innocent. My photographs of images permeating public space allude to the prevalence of images in our lives beyond the public sphere; they are central to the contemporary human experience. What choices would we be making if there hadn’t been all this advertising for where to live, what to wear, drive, eat, and who to look at?

… Image-obsessed social media has exacerbated this issue, from economic displacement to over-tourism leading to serious environmental consequences to eating disorders in young people. I did not intend to photograph people engrossed in their smartphones for Image Cities; that was simply the majority of people I came across in the busy locations I visited to make the work. The same images we see on our phones manifest in physical form in public spaces – but public spaces cannot be turned off.”


Raised in Moscow, ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA (*1984) has been living in the US since 2008. In her artistic work, she navigates the areas of observational photography, studio work and installation. In 2022, Samoylova made it onto the shortlist for the award of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. Her works are included in the collections of the Perez Art Museum, Miami, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Among her monographs published are ‘Floridas’ (Steidl, 2022) and ‘FloodZone’ (Steidl, 2019).

Anastasia Samoylova ‘Image Cities’ (Hatje Cantz)
Texts by: David Campany, Victoria del Val
06.09.2023 show complete article