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Description
Join us and Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher, Mark Fischer, at a Members Event centered on Uncle Umberto’s Orchard by Frederic Tuten. A singular creation by this four-time Pushcart Prize-winning artist, Uncle Umberto’s Orchard is equal parts beautiful storytelling and visual feast. Created in Tuten’s signature amalgamation of image and text that brings whole worlds to life, the Rosenbach is delighted to present this one-night-only event just for our members. After refreshments in our Historic House, guests will be welcomed to attend a presentation by Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher Mark E. Fischer.
Lecturers
Frederic Tuten’s short stories, art and film criticism have appeared in ArtForum, The New York Times, Vogue, Conjunctions, Granta and Harpers. In addition, he has written essays and fiction for artists’ catalogues including those of Ross Bleckner, John Baldessari, Eric Fischl, Pierre Huyghe, Jeff Koons, David Salle and Roy Lichtenstein. He has published five novels: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, Tallien: A Brief Romance, Tintin in the New World, Van Gogh’s Bad Café, and The Green Hour. Self Portraits: Fictions is his book of short stories, and most recently, he published a memoir, My Young Life. His books of short stories, The Bar at Twilight and On a Terrace in Tangier, appeared in the summer of 2023. His fiction has been translated into nine languages. Tuten received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been awarded three Pushcart Prizes and one O. Henry Prize.
Mark E. Fischer founded the Stamperia Ponte Pietra in Verona, Italy, in 1976 at age 14. He had started learning the art of handprinting and fine-press publishing from Gabriel Rummonds as soon as his family had moved to Verona in 1973. By the time he matriculated at Harvard College in 1980, his press had published four editions, which had already been collected by Harvard’s rare-book Houghton Library (as well as by several other rare-book collections in the US). These were Marsh Marigolds (in English), L’Indovinello Veronese (in Italian), Blue (in English and French), and Est Modus in Rebus (in Latin, Ancient Greek, English and Italian). Fischer had studied these languages while attending the Liceo Classico Maffei in Verona. At Harvard, Fischer studied descriptive bibliography, Latin, Ancient Greek, and French, and he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.