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Alex Czinczel
Stop-frame Animation 
6 - 31 July, 2011  

Animator, bookbinder and graphic designer, Alexandra Czinczel is an artist whose practise escapes the specificity of a single medium. She applies embroidery, sewing and knitting, to cultivate a practical and manual approach to digital media. Czinczel’s animation The Old Hedgehog is a visual recreation of Bob Cobbing's concrete poem The Young Hedgehog (1956), which the artist stumbled upon whilst researching the Poetry Library's collection.

Cobbing's 'cut ups' series employs randomly selected lines of newspaper articles to create poetical stanzas. Czinczel applies this cut-and-paste methodology of fracturing content and rearranging half lines to a digital stop-frame animation. The clippings from The Observer, a Sunday broadsheet, take a turn when the artist notices the newspaper's increasing presence of image over word. Holding on to only the initial theme, The Old Hedgehog is instigated but yet detached from Cobbing’s poem. This recreation through video media is treated by Czinczel in a light and playful manner, a bricolage of spoken word and image, an impulsive reaction to poetry and a performance of the random outcome.

Czinczel’s artist’s book will be exhibited in September 2011 at the Saison Poetry Library.

Alexandra Czinczel graduated with an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art in 2010 and is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London and Visiting Lecturer at Kingston University. Her artist's books are in the collections at the Slade Library, University of the West of England, University of Winchester, and the Gutenberg Collection in Mainz, Germany. Her first solo show was at the Prick Your Finger gallery.

Artists' Book Workshop: Postcard Cut-outs
Saturday 23 July & Sunday 24 July, 2 - 4.30pm
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FREE

Join Alex Czincel and Oona Grimes to creatively engage with cut-up found material and concrete poetry
postcards. Suitable for children.

Prompted by the Festival of Britain celebrations, Art on Poetry is a dedicated season of artists' books at the Saison Poetry Library. Twelve internationally acclaimed artists are given a rare opportunity to draw upon Southbank Centre's archives and re-consider British identity sixty years on.

The Saison Poetry Library is situated on the fifth level of the Royal Festival Hall and open from Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 8pm.  

Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 8pm.

Saison Poetry Library
Level 5
Royal Festival Hall
London SE1 8XX

Phone: 020 7921 0943 / 020 7921 0664

Underground stations: Waterloo & Embankment
Railway stations: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross

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