Eleonora Cumer

Born in 1956 in Bolzano, where she still lives and works.
She works on artist’s books, book installations and illustration. She holds workshops and artist’s workshops at contemporary art museums and various institutions. He publishes in Italy and abroad.
He has participated and exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions, including: Biennale del libro d’Artista in Cassino, Biennale del libro d’artista in Naples, ‘Artbooks in Archivio’ during Artelibro in Bologna, ‘Libro de artista y de la pequenas ediciones’ Barcelona, Libri dai libri Schio, Belgrado and Vicenza, Biennale di arte e design in Padua and Délires de livres.
His last solo exhibition December 2022 – March 2023 entitled ‘Libro d’artista’ in Pavullo nel Frignano at the Galleria di arte Contemporanea di Contemporanea di Palazzo Ducale.
His works have won several awards including: Stupor Sensibile Award (Unseen Books), Libcomelibrarsi Award (Handmade Books) and Best International Apps & E-Books (Kirkus Reviews).
His artist’s books can be found in private collections and public institutions.

‘I have been engaging with books for a few years now. I find that flipping through the pages or unrolling them stimulates more the curiosity to see what the object one is holding in one’s hands contains. The possibility of touching it, turning it over and over, ‘reading’ it from one side and then from the opposite side is like entering into the object itself. Thus tactile perception is added to visual perception. The book becomes paper sculpture, the paper sculpture becomes book. In the same way, working with the paper of old books, those found in flea markets or near garbage cans, is like working on oneself, recycling and recycling oneself, new ways of being and proposing, the end but at the same time a new beginning’.