Location: Uil village, Aktyubinsk region, Republic of Kazakhstan.
Year: 2006.
The International Exhibition of Ex Libris and Graphics devoted to the 100th anniversary of S. V. Kukuruza. 90 artists from 22 countries took part in the exhibition.
The catalogue of the International Exhibition of Ex Libris and Graphics devoted to the 100th anniversary of S. V. Kukuruza, Aktobe, 2006.
Sergey Vasilyevich Kukuruza (1906–1979) was an artist-illustrator (stage designer, illustration, poster, Ex Libris). He was born in Privorotje village, Kamenets-Podolsky region Ukraine. After he had been released from Stalin camps in 1947, he was sent to stay in Aktyubinsk (now Aktobe) where he lived till 1972. After that he returned to his motherland. Sergey Kukuruza occupied his rightful place in the history of the Kazakhstan Ex Libris being the first to promote this type of little graphics.
Ex Libris (from the Latin ex libris ‘from the book’) is a book sign which shows the book owner. It is glued or printed from the matrix to the inside of book covers. In the history of bibliophiles such cases are know when the Ex Liblis glued into a book became more expensive than the book itself. The Ex Libirs appeared soon after the printing invention. It is considered to originate from Germany.
Ex Librises are collected. The main Ex ibris techniques are xylography, zincography, lithography, linocut, etching etc. The computer aided design is being used more and more often for Ex Librises.
Ex libris by Inna Klyavina
CAD – computer graphics.
56×57 mm, 2005
