Laurette Succar – Artist Book Workshop / Venice Art Biennial 2024 “Personal Structures”

‘Artist’s book: Place of rediscovered innocence’ with Laurette Succar.
Event organized by ECC Italy as part of the Venice Art Biennial 2024.

On the occasion of the exhibition Personal Structures 2024, Laurette Succar offers to tackle the theme of the artist’s book with interested visitors.

Visual artist, painter and author, Laurette Succar is also editor of artists books with more than a hundred titles published since 2009.

This workshop deliberately focuses on the choice and preparation of materials. Intimately linked to the creative process, these stages are indeed decisive for carrying out a personal project. The artist invites each participant to follow the process of developing an artist’s book, encouraging them to be guided and carried by the rustling of textures, colours and words. Natural pigments – such as indigo, henna, ochres – marble powder, sand, plant seeds as well as all powdered pigments used in the manufacture of paint will be made available to all. The idea is to introduce participants to experimenting and preparing their own paint or material. And then encourage them to “shape” their own prototype of an Artist’s Book… Emphasis will be placed on the playful and exploratory side at work in the creative process. Disobeying fear, crossing new territories, opening the fields of possibility and sharing. Isn’t the Artist’s Book ultimately a “living cell” – one of the last refuges of the freedom to say, to write and create?

“During the 7 months period of Venice Art Biennial 2024, multiple events will punctuate ‘Personal Structures’ Exhibition : talks, performances, workshops and many other interactive propositions are going to take place in order to generate a conversation about the contemporary art’s developments, concepts and concerns.”