Laudes Creaturarum
- SIGNED With 15 original ink drawings by Stefan Arteni, initials and seals in red, interleaved with tissue; the text handset in F.W. Gou
- [Jackson Heights, NY: Sol Invictus], 1992
[Jackson Heights, NY: Sol Invictus], 1992. No. 9 of 26 copies, signed by artist and designer. With 15 original ink drawings by Stefan Arteni, initials and seals in red, interleaved with tissue; the text handset in F.W. Goudy's Old Italian style and printed on a Vandercook press by Myriam S.P. de Arteni. Printed rectos only on large folded sheets. [32] leaves (alternating leaves blank). 1 vols. Folio. Handmade illustrated textured paper wrappers, text leaves loose as issued. Cloth folding box, with plexiglass display stand. Minor soiling to box. Fine. Arteni, Stefan. No. 9 of 26 copies, signed by artist and designer. With 15 original ink drawings by Stefan Arteni, initials and seals in red, interleaved with tissue; the text handset in F.W. Goudy's Old Italian style and printed on a Vandercook press by Myriam S.P. de Arteni. Printed rectos only on large folded sheets. [32] leaves (alternating leaves blank). 1 vols. Folio. The half title reads: O cantico di frate sole; and at the back of the book is an English translation of the text, “The canticle of brother sun” by Barbara Carle.
“The paper is from the private mill of Nirma Zarate in Bogotà and was made by hand from fibers of plants that grow in Colombia. Strophe initials and signature seals were hand carved in stone by Stefan Arteni and applied by hand using red seal paste made in China. Stefan Arteni created the fifteen original drawings of each copy with Sumi ink made by Boku Undo of Nara in Japan. There are only twenty six copies numbered from one to twenty six. All are signed by both designer and artist” (from the colophon).
Stefan Arteni (1947-2020) attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and trained with Japanese master calligraphers. “Arteni’s stylistic matrix consists of the interplay of Byzantine tradition, Western formal procedures, and Far Eastern calligraphy and seal-carving methods” (Art of Ink International Society); he received the Japan Foreign Affairs Minister Grand Prize for Calligraphy in 1996 and in 2005. A retrospective exhibition of his work, The Sign of the Logos, was held at the library of the General Theological Seminary in 1999, dedicated to artists' books created together with his wife.
A remarkable production. Provenance: General Theological Seminary
“The paper is from the private mill of Nirma Zarate in Bogotà and was made by hand from fibers of plants that grow in Colombia. Strophe initials and signature seals were hand carved in stone by Stefan Arteni and applied by hand using red seal paste made in China. Stefan Arteni created the fifteen original drawings of each copy with Sumi ink made by Boku Undo of Nara in Japan. There are only twenty six copies numbered from one to twenty six. All are signed by both designer and artist” (from the colophon).
Stefan Arteni (1947-2020) attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and trained with Japanese master calligraphers. “Arteni’s stylistic matrix consists of the interplay of Byzantine tradition, Western formal procedures, and Far Eastern calligraphy and seal-carving methods” (Art of Ink International Society); he received the Japan Foreign Affairs Minister Grand Prize for Calligraphy in 1996 and in 2005. A retrospective exhibition of his work, The Sign of the Logos, was held at the library of the General Theological Seminary in 1999, dedicated to artists' books created together with his wife.
A remarkable production. Provenance: General Theological Seminary