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The Lewis Carroll Society selects Dusan Kallay’s illustrations for Alice in Wonderland the most beautiful in the world.

In addition to printmaking and painting, artist Dusan Kallay creates fabulous  illustrations for children books. In 1988, he received the Hans Christian Andersen award for his lifelong achievements. Last year, The Lewis Carroll Society of North America presented the 2010 Slovak translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, translated by Juraj Vojtek and Viera Vojtova and illustrated by Dusan Kallay, with the Grand Prize for excellence in all aspects of this work. In 2015, The Lewis Carroll Society celebrated the 150th anniversary of Alice with the production and publication of a three-volume study of Alice in nearly 200 languages, a major exhibition at the distinguished Grolier Club in New York City, and a two-day conference, and the exhibition was the occasion for the awarding of this prize. The winner was selected by Jon Lindseth, co-curator of the exhibition and general editor of the book. 

We always enjoy the works by Kamila Stanclova, a Slovak artist who has gained recognition for her exquisite prints and book illustrations. She is a dreamer. In this iconic work entitled The Old Moving House (1982), Stanclova shows off her skill to manipulate the real and the fantastic based in dreams, the present and the past, the significant and the marginal, and the real and the poetic.

KADS New York will feature several color etchings by Kamila Stanclova at The 2016 New York Satellite Print Fair (November 4-6, 2016), including The Old Moving House. Mark your calendar, plan your trip to New York!

“Stanclova’s prints exemplify many of the characteristics that we have come to think of as defining the Central European graphic tradition: the mastery of the plate, the connection to book illustration, the critical stance of the artist towards social or political realities mediated through sly humor, fantasy and sheer visual dazzle.”                           – Eva Nikolova, Celebrating Print 2014 exhibition catalog

Featured image: Kamila Stanclova, The Old Moving House, 1982, color etching, 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches image size, edition of 60, photograph by the artist. Courtesy of KADS NY. 

Celebrating Print 2015 Artist: Tobias Crone

Image top: Tobias Crone, Internal Process Failure, 2015, etching, aquatint and gouache on cotton paper, 31.5 x 22 inches image size (80 x 56 cm), edition: 7, printed by the artist, photograph courtesy of the artist (image above - detail of the same print)

“The print entitled Internal Process Failure is part of User Manual for Waiting Lines, a series in which business partners get intimate while dealing with the authorities. In that bureaucratic world, the demand for love exceeds the capacity of the system. Standing in line is the daily routine in life. Respecting the queue allows the available love partners to be processed without severe disturbances and intimate services can be provided to each applicant. Meanwhile, the business partners transit through desolate swimming pools and tiled bathrooms where they experience timid meetings in shower cabins as well as lonely rides through water slides”.