Red South
Arik Kilemnik
2024
Web Print Concertinas
The handmade book consists of three screen prints and an etching, that uses red, black, and blue colors with the white of the papers. Each print has a name: Democracy, Seventh of October, and Anemones. The concertinas are organized in a hand-bound cloth box. The book was initiated during the Balfour protests, continued to be made after the events of October 7, and refers to the future flowering of anemones in the "Gaza Envelope."
- Copies: 24
- Pages: 3
- Type of binding: Hand-made box
- Dimensions (cm): 24X16
- Printing: Jerusalem Print Workshop
- Binding: Manual
- Type of printing: Screenprint and Etching
- Publication: Jerusalem Print Workshop
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Aryeh (Eric) Kilmanik (born March 1, 1935) is an Israeli artist, designer, and the founder of the Jerusalem Print Workshop. Between 1963-1970 he studied art in New York and specialized in printmaking techniques. After graduating, he taught at Cooper Union and established a screen printing workshop there. In 1974, he founded the Jerusalem print workshop. Kilmanik's early work, from the 1960s, is characterized by the influence of American pop art. In his prints from that time until the 1980s, images related to the Vietnam War appeared alongside other anti-war images. In 2015 he presented the solo exhibition "Ithaca" prints, paintings, and drawings of boats and sea voyages, alongside dragonflies.
