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Death of Afrikaans

Item date(s): 2024

Willem Hendrik Adriaan Boshoff  - (artist)
Heléne van Aswegen  - (bookbinding by)
Helene Smuts  - (introduction by)


Pages: single folding page
Size: 220 x 607mm
Language: English; Afrikaans
Inscription: Signed by the artist and Paul Harris and the binder (with her chop)
Edition: #3/10


Place publication: Muizenburg, RSA
Publisher: Vincent van Graan, VvG Consulting

Additional notes:
This artists' book, Death of Afrikaans was commissioned by Paul Harris of Ellerman House in 2024. It was created by Helene van Aswegen, who used the frottage technique (rubbing) with 6B graphite on 22 gsm tissue paper to accurately capture Willem Boshoff's monumental artwork (2021). Boshoff's original artwork, bearing the same title as this book, features 14,475 inimitable Afrikaans words laser etched in Times New Roman font onto five slabs of gabbro (Belfast Black granite). These slabs stand vertically as part of the permanent collection of Ellerman House, located at 180 Kloof Road, Bantry Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dimensions of frame: 3800 x 1215 x 76mm

First exhibited on the retrospective exhibition: Willem Boshoff: Word Woes

Guest curated by Helene Smuts for the Javett Art Centre, University of Pretoria (March 2021 to March 2022)

This accordion book is designed and hand bound by book-artist Helene van Aswegen, TheBookWorkshop, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Set in Times New Roman and Monterci sans.

Printed with Epson YUltraChrome TM inks on 309 gsm Hahnumule Photorag paper.

Exhibition notes:
Weird, ‘Wonderful’, Quirky & Peculiar, JBCBA, WAM

Curated by David Paton, Ciara Struwig & Jack Ginsberg

3 June – 29 August 2025



Ref: GB/31812


   



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