Raczej nieoczekiwana, ale bardzo miła dotarła do mnie wiadomość z Anglii. Hamlet w moim wykonaniu został zakwalifikowany do wystaw objazdowych.
Ładnych parę miesięcy spędzi zatem w podróży, ja natomiast bardzo żałuję że wystawa nie zahaczy o nasz kraj...
Poniżej treść wiadomości którą otrzymałem:
Dear Binder,
The judging of all the 250 competition entries and the selection for the touring exhibition took place on 9th & 10th January in Oxford. The judges were:
Richard Ovenden, Deputy Librarian of the Bodleian Libraries
Timothy Ely, Book Artist and Binder, Washington State USA
Katinka Keus, Conservator and Bookbinder,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
James Brockman, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, UK
I am delighted to confirm that your binding has been selected for the touring exhibition!
The Awards ceremony and official Exhibition Opening will take place in Oxford on the evening of Wednesday 12 June 2013 and we hope that as many bindersas possible will make their way to Oxford to take part in the evening's celebrations.
The touring exhibition will visit the following European venues after the opening exhibition in Oxford:
Bodleian
Libraries, Oxford 13
June 10 August 2013
St Bride
Foundation, London 13 August – 20 September
Bibliotheca Wittockiana , Brussels 27 September – 13 January 2014
National
Library of Estonia Tallinn 24 January – 15 February
Museum of
Western Bohemia, Pilzen 22 February – 6 April
Library
of the Bauhaus University, Weimar 12 April – 9 May
Museum of
Printing Arts, Leipzig 12 May
– 29 June
Imprenta Municipal, Madrid 10 July – 3 August
Ente Casa di Risparmio di Firenze, Florence 8 August – 5 September
(The
above dates may be subject to slight amendments once we have more details about
transportation between venues.)
After
Florence we are hoping to take the exhibition to three venues in Japan. Plans for this
extension to the tour is still
to be confirmed.
ALL
entrants will have their binding illustrated in full colour with their description in the lavish
catalogue which will be produced for the Awards Ceremony and official
Exhibition Opening on the evening of Wednesday 12 June in Oxford. All entrants
will receive a copy together with a certificate of participation.
I
wish to thank you most sincerely for having entered a binding. Your
participation has contributed greatly to the success of the competition and has
helped make the catalogue an impressive survey of contemporary bookbinding
worldwide.
I
shall be emailing all binders in the exhibition with further information in
March. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Warm
regards and congratulations,
Jeanette
Koch
