Donald Fels Print Subscription Oppportunity
We would like to invite you to support an exciting printmaking project artist Don Fels will be undertaking this fall in Spain. We are seeking subscribers to help fund a special opportunity for Don to work on monoprints inspired by the historic birthplace of the Kabbalah. Each subscriber at $250 will receive one of the small edition of works associated with the monoprint/collage project. This contribution represents less than half the usual price for the artist’s work in this scale.
Don Fels. Trajectories (preliminary study), 2009. Mixed media. 9 x 32 inches.
Fels will be working for the month of October 2009 with Spanish master-printer Eusebi Subiros at the Lupusgrafic studio in Girona on the Costa Brava, in collaboration with Davidson Galleries in Seattle and Michael Dunev Art Projects in Torroella dei Montgri, Spain. It was in Girona that the Kabbalah was first published. With the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the book made its way with them around the world.
Working with Sebi, Fels will create a series of monoprints to include chine colle and collage, found images, diagrams and drawing. The series will pursue the intersection of the Zohar (the most important work of the Kabbalah) and Linear Perspective- the external and internal. The Zohar grapples with the concept of infinity and looking deeply inwards. Linear Perspective and the concept of the Vanishing Point produced a system for projecting outwards into infinite space. Moving in opposite directions, the two bodies of knowledge developed simultaneously in Spain and Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries.
For some years in Italy and then in India, Fels has been researching the relationship between the art of perspective and the Voyages of Discovery, which the perspective system made possible. The time spent in Girona offers the extraordinary chance to broaden his research to re-consider these developments in light of the life of the mind.
“Trajectories”, mixed media, 2009, 9×32” is a study for the print project. It reproduces a 1521 diagram by Cesare Cesarino, itself based on Leonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking work on perspective from 1492. In the mid-15th century, the funnel, as pictured in the piece, brought the French word trajectory into the English language.
If you would like to participate in this important project, please email or call 206-624-7684 to subscribe.
We are hoping to complete the subscription by September 25. Thank you very much.