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Die Neue Versleere

Item date(s): 1993

Gerhild Ebel

Pages: unpaged
Size: 240mm
Edition: #13/40

Place publication: Berlin, Germany
Publisher: Uwe Wanrnke Verlag

Additional notes:
"Gerhild Ebel created an important signal with her book »Die neue Versleere« dated 1993. The title was immediately irritating, as Versleere – with a double e here – pointed to something different to the usual, not what one expected at first.* She had cut various verse forms from pages of white card. The only written words on those pages were the terms used for the individual verse forms: sonnet, haiku, palindrome etc. But that was not all. On other pages, the seriousness one thought one had understood disappeared, there is a trace of humour that cannot be overlooked, and finally, an open conclusion." Uwe Warnke, Berlin 2006

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

Curated by David Paton, Ciara Struwig & Jack Ginsberg

3 June – 29 August 2025

Ref: GB/1888