Pages: 10pp Size: 220mm, oblong Inscription: Signed by the artist. Edition: #2/7
Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA Publisher: Artists Book Cat. 16 Exhibition 2006; 2017
Additional notes: Bitter Love was digitally printed by the artist and bound in linen by Peter Carstens, Johannesburg, 2003. Each edition is presented in a mauve ("black") linen slip(case) and custom made by Carstens. The seven linoleum cuts are hand printed on each page.
The book is printed on the following papers: Title page & Colophon: Fabriano Roma 145gsm. Body: Ingres Fabriano 160gsm.
Each linoleum cut is stamped and signed by the artist.
There are limited editions of ten of each linoleum cut, with one artist's proof.
Exhibition notes: Item 16 in the exhibition 'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists' Books and the Digital Interface'.
Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchefstroom.
25–30 September 2006 and the
FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg.
5–13 October 2006
'Booknesses: Investigating the Body. Emandulo, Chris Diedericks and Charles Hobson'.
Gallery of the SARChI Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg.