Storm of the i
An Artobiography
By Tina Collen
Boulder, Colorado: Art Review Press, 2009.
8.25 x 9 x 1”; 322 pages. Offset printed. 322 (275 color images, 57 black & white images, spot varnish). Interactive components: 1 lift-up flap, 1 internal cutout, 1 pop-up, a 5-page color foldout, a 15-panel color foldout in an envelope. Bound in black illustrated wraps of triple weight with flaps and cutout on front cover. Designed by Tina Collen.
Lena Torslow Hansen www.nordicartbooks.com: "This book is a fabulous hybrid, a memoir that's alive with foldouts, paintings, drawings, and a surprising lift-up flap. Beneath the playfulness, however, lies the story of an artist trying to understand her father’s lifelong anger towards her. At the pinnacle of her career, an exhibition of her work in Paris, Tina Collen finds herself inexplicably weeping. It takes courage to probe a father’s lifelong rejection, but Collen has wonderful tools: her humor, memories and the trail of art she created. I discovered Collen through her Fleurotica collages (shown and discussed in the book). At first glance, I thought I was looking at lush paintings of wildflowers, but on closer examination, I was in the world of the Kama Sutra. Based on the idea that flowers are simply sex organs, Collen created her wildflowers from risqué magazine scraps. She took something forbidden and transformed it into something witty, beautiful and acceptable. In Storm of the I, she takes a heartbreaking story and transforms it into something witty, beautiful and unforgettable."
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