The Chain of Cities "Guest Book"

Community art project Guest Book has already formed a chain between cities by the sea, Rauma, Naantali and Kotka in Finland. And Brussels Exhibition starts a series of exhibitions abroad. The Guest Book takes the message from one city to another. The art of Group Marginal is made by new, not yet well known, ecological way of printing, so called cartonprint. Carton is covered by shellac and can be carved as a sheet of metal would be. No acid is needed. Thus there are no toxic fumes either. The three artists of Group Marginal often work together in dialogue. They not only support each other by close communication, but also make joint prints. Of the series of exhibitions Guest Book, the first exhibition took place in Lönnström art museum in Rauma in 2006. The next exhibition in Naantali later the same year continued the theme. In the exhibitions, the visitors are challenged to join in making art. Little by little the exhibitions have made a chain between cities. In Brussels the visitors can also participate. The artists are interested in seeing if the traces made by Belgian people are different from those made by Finnish exhibition visitors. All the artists are from Southern Finland. Their aim is to print tones of nature and introduce a new way of making Art Graphic. Groupe Marginal Mari Aspola - Kirsi Kuusisto - Katariina Silvola Le Livre d´or de la chaîne intervilles.