From artist Maddy Rosenberg comes a 2008 accordion book titled The Mini Book of Death. Rosenberg presents us with a white fold out book in which quotes about death stand starkly in the middle of each page. The expression of many artists’ fascination with death has made its way into a variety of formats and perspectives (for irony and humor think Arnow, for a worldview of the death of women look at Silverberg). The energy that Rosenberg impresses upon the page is that of wisdom and enlightenment. The dark ink of the quotes is swallowed by the enveloping white, and the dimensions lend a feeling that such wisdom is to be carried around and absorbed into the subconscious, a petite business model of the balance of life and death.
“As a well day spent brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death” – Leonardo da Vinci
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death does not come, and when death has come, we are not."- Epicurus
Maddy Rosenberg is an artist that works in several media. She paints with oils, prints, draws, and creates artists’ books, installations and toy theater. She also has a history of working with The Center for Book Arts. In 2010 she curated her third exhibition at CBA, Narrative Sequences. She is involved in numerous arts initiatives, including her DUMBO gallery, Central Booking, which shares our passion for bringing book arts to the public.
Visit Maddy Rosenberg’s website here.
View this and other works of Rosenberg’s here.
-Rebecca Kish