Vida Sacic: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

Reader’s Art 12: Longing for Home

Vida Sacic

Cityscapes project – hand-bound letterpress printed book (4 colors / 64 pages /50 copies produced) produced during an artist residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts Columbia College Chicago

 

The printed book serves as one of two parts of the project. The second is an interactive app that can be viewed on a personal iPad. In both iterations of the books. The same content is used but presented in a way that takes advantage of the medium. Thematically, in this collection of over 40 illustrations of imaginary landscapes, themes of materiality are explored through images of cities.
Whose landscapes juxtapose buildings from varied time periods and geographic areas. The landscapes mostly combine sights from Chicago, where I currently live, with images from my hometown in Croatia. In such spaces, realities collide and coexist furthering a notion of vague familiarity mixed with displacement that mirrors the 21st-century experience. I believe that this book is well suited to the theme “longing for home” because of its strong personal subtext. That alludes to our tendencies to carry our past with us and often finds it resurrected in front of us when we least expect it. I find it fascinating that we carry it all with us. No matter where we go.

Reader’s Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16-April 26, 2012

About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel

Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year devoted to the concept of narrative in the arts in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a window gallery on Cedar Avenue. The main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis, and an online venture represented on Artsy.net. In March 2013, the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel where she continues to work on small and largescale artwork with an attitude. You can find her current work at Susan Hensel Projects. The studio remains open to the public by appointment or chance, on Monday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm. You are welcome to drop by this gallery/workspace at any time. But a call ahead prevents frustration. The well-lit Windows on Cedar Project are available to be seen 24 hours a day.