Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books Project is a curated Exhibition for the Southern Graphics Council 2009 Annual Conference Global Implications, Columbia College, Chicago. Hui-Chu Ying, organizer of this project, is an Associate Professor at The Myers School of Art, The University of Akron in Ohio, USA. Alicia Candiani, Director of Proyecto´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina and SGC Board of Directors International Member at Large, curated and coordinated the international artists invited to this project.

Opening and reception: March 27, 6 - 9pm
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago
Exhibition: March 6 - 28, 2009

About MIMB:
Artworks of monumental physical scale are overwhelming. The diminutive viewer is confronted and consumed by the gigantic. Presented with the miniature, the viewer, no longer assigned to the passive role, could instead devour the work, taking it into his or her soul. The miniature invites the viewer into a personal and intimate relationship. With attention drawn to the significance of the seemingly insignificant, the momentousness of the miniscule is magnified thus instilling monumental value. This curated exhibition will investigate the power of small-scale artists’ books to challenge their readers with grand, powerful, urgent, and poignant content. This is an intimate, economical, democratic and global exchange project. + View website

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Future exhibition venues: The University of Akron, Proyecto’ ACE, Buenos Aires Argentina, Kent State University, University of Colorado, Boulder, Northern Illinois University, Southern Birmingham University, Texas Tech University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Houghton College, NY, Savanna College of Art and Design, Ohio Northern University, Ada Ohio, Univ. of Texas at Arlington,  Youngstown State University, Ohio University.

Artists from Argentina within MIMB:
Silvana Blasbalg
Silvia Brewda
Maria Ester Constant
Liana Strasberg
Liliana Sánchez
Adriana Moracci
Patricia Miani
Alicia Candiani