Books from the exhibition
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Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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Literary Amnesia Officina Ludi; Grosshansdorf / Hamburg; 2001 Author: Patrick Sëskind Illustrator/Artist: Joachim Jansong Printer: Claus Lorenzen Binder: Stefan Cseh Contact: www.officinaludi.de Book design by Claus Lorenzen. Thirty-six pages with three full-page etchings and three offset prints. Printed in hand-set Candida-Antiqua on a hand press on Velin d'arches and Schoellershammer papers. Etchings printed by Milan Drimal (Prague). Edition of 110 numbered copies, of which 10 are preferred editions in complete leather, embossed, with an additional original etching. This short treatise deals thoughtfully and humorously with the phenomenon of literary forgetting, something familiar to any reader who picks up a book read years ago and scarcely remembers any detail of the story. Why, then, read at all? Maybe reading affects much more than just memory and is overlaid with other levels of consciousness. Thus, the illustrations by Joachim Jansong deal with various strata: strata in trees, in stones, in layers of wallpaper and, yes, even with strata in the brain - woven into pictures of ruined remains of parchment, old folios, fragments of prose and poetry and pictures of writers. | |||
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