OPENING EVENT

TUESDAY APRIL 27th starting 10 am
A ceremonial unpacking of the original postcards from New York City will be installed in silence, while the names of the artists will be written into ‘The Book of the Living’.

“A Book About Death” is a collaborative project conceived by American artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City, where the original exhibition took place from September 10 – 22, 2009. The exhibition paid special homage to Ray Johnson (1927-1995), acknowledged as the “Father of Mail Art”. And the project, in its sprawling global reach explored how we celebrate memory and death.”

The exhibition opened with a packed house, and a line snaking up Broadway more than 500 people long waiting to get in the doors to make their own book. Since then, the exhibition has traveled to MUBE - Museu Brasileiro da Escultura in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Otis College of Art and Design in LA; The River Mill Art Gallery in New Jersey; The Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA; The Queens Museum in Queens, NY; The Sexta Literary Arts Festival in Tijuana, Mexico; San Diego State University in Calexico, CA; as well as other venues in Belgium, Sarajevo and Croatia.

Complete sets of “A Book About Death" have entered into the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library.

History of the project so far: abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com

A project by Matthew Rose abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com

MoMA Wales

Museum Of Modern Art, Wales

and The Tabernacle

Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth

Powys SY20 8AJ

Wales, UK.

momawales.org.uk

MoMA WALES – MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | WALES UK       Contributing artists from around the world are participating in this critical part and new chapter in the exhibition of A Book About Death at MoMA Wales, organized by Sonja Benskin Mesher RCA, including the original postcards from the Emily Harvey Foundation exhibition in NYC.