“Satori Soractis” (1990) is een handgebonden boek in Japanse stijl met zijde en bestaat uit etsen van tekeningen gemaakt tijdens wandelingen op de berg Soracte in Italië, waar Maria Korporal destijds woonde. Tussen de etsen staan de teksten van gedichten uit Matsuo Basho’s reisdagboek “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, gedrukt op rijstpapier.

Recente tentoonstellingen:
• 30 juni – 17 juli 2022: First Book Night, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf.
• 1-24 april 2022: Posities in de artistieke productie van boeken en teksten, Galerie VBK Berlin.

Satori Soractis. Following Basho’s Roads
an artist’s book by Maria Korporal

Inspired by Matsuo Basho’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, the artist made several meditative walks on Monte Soratte, during which she made numerous drawings that follow the lines and structures of the rocks and stones. These drawings became the basis for the etchings in this artist’s book.

Black silk-covered cardboard box (hardcover) made by hand in Japanese style with letterpress-title on front panel, grey silk and white paper on the inside of the box, 14,5 x 39,5 x 2,5 cms., containing artist’s book entirely printed on Japanese paper, cover made of slik mounted on paper and carrying the title printed above a sumi-e design, four pages with the quoted haiku texts were printed with nylon cliches, two copper plates used to produce each of the eight color etchings, i.e. aquatint and sugar-aquatint.

Artist’s Book in an edition of 40 copies. The cliche of the title, the frontispiece and the colophon were made by Korporal on copper plates. Each copper plate was printed by incorporating two colors mixed by the artist. The final prints are thus composed of 4 different basic colors. The binding was effectuated by using an antique Japanese method called Kangxi.

Sant’Oreste, 1990