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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/ .
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 conversations. Sometimes
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/reader, the 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 -
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.
Suzanne Nossel
