Editions Rafaël Andréa ~ France
(Gaëlle Pelachaud)

Les Papillons
By Gérard de Nerval
Paris, France: Editions Rafaël Andréa, 2007. Edition of 20.

6.5 x 6.5 x 1.25"; 18 pages. Double-sided accordion pop up book. Text in French.

"The Butterflies" by Gérard de Nerval (1808 – 1855, French Romantic poet, whose insistence on the significance of dreams influenced Breton and the surrealists and who allegedly had a pet lobster he took for walks through Paris) is the basis for this popup book.
$950

Books to film

Gaëlle Pelachaud: "My artistic endeavor is directed towards a new conception in the reading of images. One is an intimate vision seen in a book whereas the other a shared image projected on a wall. I invite the spectator to an intimate more tactile experience with a book, then onto a vertical reading of the image as it is projected on a screen and thus to the discovery of words, voices, and light. The transformation of a book generally concerns either the volume itself, or the text which is treated as a kind of palimpsest, a framework for a new type of writing. Mine is not a wish to destroy but a deep desire to take pages out of their books, out of their boxes, to let loose words and images. ...My research explores the will to create a symbiosis between both categories and to invent intermediary art forms between the freeze frame which stops motion, to the panorama or the animated picture which is a stationary image put into movement."

MANHATTAN
By Gaëlle Pelachaud
Paris, France: Editions Rafaël Andréa, 2008. Edition of 20.

8 x 7.25 x 4" tunnel book. Digitally printed. Housed in blue stiff commercial cardboard lidded box with paper title on lid.

This tunnel book suggests that the city is composed of stolid unmoving architecture animated by people and cars.

A film that corresponds to this book can be seen on YouTube.
$475

Urashima Taro
By Gaëlle Pelachaud
Paris, France: Editions Rafaël Andréa, 2008. Edition of 20.

6 x 7.5 x 4"; 6 pages. Star carousel structure or double sided accordion. Text in French. Digitally printed. Floral illustrated paper-covered boards with ribbon tires.

Pelachaud uses the carousel structure to give a dimension to scenes in a Japanese garden: fish in a pond and serving tea.

A film that corresponds to this book can be seen on YouTube.
$1,085