AEPM members meeting in the Gutenberg Museum on the weekend of the 24th October were delighted to learn of the American Printing History Association’s announcement that its Institutional Award for 2015 has been given to the Book Art Museum of Łódź, Poland. Janusz Tryzno, his son Pawel and Arkadiusz Rogozinski, a colleague from the Book Art Museum were attending the AEPM annual meeting in Mainz (Germany) with thirty other delegates from seven European countries and two visiting colleagues from Argentina.
From the American Printing History Association’s website :”The Book Art Museum and its founders have made an extraordinary contribution to the study, recording, preservation and dissemination of printing history in Poland over the last 35 years. In a country where fine printing and historic printing techniques were almost entirely eradicated under communism, the Book Art Museum in Łódź has taken on the important role of ensuring the continuity of the art of fine printing. They restore and preserve vintage printing equipment, cultivate printing skills, and perform outreach to the community. The museum originated from Correspondance des Arts, a small press started by a husband and wife team of artists Janusz and Jadwiga Tryzno in 1980; at that time the Tryznos were actively involved in underground printing for the “Solidarity” movement. Their press became a Foundation in 1990, and in 1993 the Tryznos opened the Book Art Museum in a late 19th-century villa on the grounds of an abandoned textile factory in Łódź. […] It produces world-class artists’ books combining traditional hand-printing techniques with the most advanced printing technologies such as 3D printing. “
Further information on the American Printing History Association’s website.
