| Albert Oehlen, Rainald Goetz: D.I.E Artists’ book with drawings by Albert Oehlen and texts by Rainald Goetz Texts in German Hardcover, clothbound 24 x 33 cm 36 pages 13 tipped-in color illustrations 300 copies, numbered, copies nrs. 1 to 50 signed by the artists ISBN 978-3-935567-50-3 out of print |
Albert Oehlen and Rainald Goetz have been friends for a long time and have realized many projects in tandem. With D.I.E
they now publish their first artists’ book. Rainald Goetz has put 17
concretist texts of very few words opposite 13 abstract drawings by
Oehlen, following the painter’s visual gestures in a like-minded spirit.
Every line and squiggle in Oehlen’s large-format charcoal drawings
falls in with an associative tangle that completely denies coherency.
The texts on the pages facing the illustrations rule out any kind of
makeshift sense: they are sound, image, narrative expectation, and
argument. The book itself serves as an open space where free association
rules, only pulled back by reason. It becomes an opening for letters
and lines, images and words, a space for contents, moods, off-roads, and
plausibilities. The artists’ book D.I.E is published in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, the first 50 of them signed by both artists. All texts are in German. |
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