Stefano Faravelli, Delhi, Confluencias, Granada, Spain, 2012

                

A pocket-sized carnet de voyage (travel notebook) by this well known Italian artist from a series featuring different cities across the globe with this one dedicated to Delhi. The book comes with a biographical introduction coupled with the story of Faravelli's fascination with India, and more importantly Faravelli's own comments about the subjects in each of the pages of this notebook.

The introductory texts at the beginning of this book are translated into four languages - Italian, Castilian, French, English and other books depict Tokyo, Istanbul, Cairo, Rome, Jenne, Jerusalem, Pekin, Toledo and Kashgar. 

See here for Faravelli's treatment of the Malian city of Jenne: accordion publications: Mar 27, 2018

32 pages single-sided, individual pages 5.5" (h) x 3.5" (w), when open 9ft 4". 

                             

                                  

                                 

                               

                                

                                

                                                  

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Olga Shtonda, El Palo Más Alto (The Tallest Tree Trunk In The Woods), 6dreams, Ukraine, 2023

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A wonderful accordion (#46) by Olga Shtonda in the 6dreams accordion series initiated by Roger Omar in 2002 in which he collects dreams from children around the world and then commissions artists to illustrate six dreams per accordion. In this example the dreams are all from children in Mexico with one side displaying the artists' interpretations of the dreams and on the reverse are transcriptions in both Spanish and English of each individual dream. This is a totally unique project and has been going for more than 20 years! More info available about Omar's project here: accordion publications: 6dreams, editor Roger Omar, Valencia, Spain

When I received this work I noticed that Olga's address was from a city in the northeastern part of Ukraine that has seen serious fighting during the war. In the credits for this accordion Olga has written, "Illustrated with hope before and during the full scale war in Ukraine, my homeland, in February 2022 and January-February 2023 in Tlaxcala, Mexico...". I wish her well and hope that she is in a place of safety. 

5 double-sided pages, individual pages 8.25" x 7.75", and fully open at 3ft 2.75". 

reverse side with transcriptions of the children's dreams

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