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Item date(s): 1999

Yoko Tawada
Carsten Nicolai


Pages: unpaged
Size: 323mm
Language: German; Japanese
Inscription: Signed by the artists.
Edition: #34/50 of 60

Type: French door fold
Theme(s): Textural book

Place publication: Gotha, Germany
Publisher: Edition Balance
ISBN: 3-928440-13-6

Additional notes:
French fold with printing inside the fold which is visible espcially with the cut-outs. 12.5' x 9.25'. 13 texts accompanied by 13 woodengravings and 13 cut-out figures by Carsten Nicolai. Japanese sewn binding with gray spine and cream wrappers with title; gray cloth wrap-around card folder with white closure tabs; cream title label in Japanese. Music CD produced by Carsten Nicolai laid in back board. Endpapers by Nicolai. Yoko Tawada, born in Tokyo in 1960, studied literature in Japan. In 1979 she came to Germany for the first time via the Trans-Siberian railway. She has been living in Hamburg since 1982, and since 1987 her work has been published in both German and Japanese. This Dadaesque poetry 'plays' with numbers.

Carsten Nicolai and editor Henry Gunther met Tawada in New York in 1995. Inspired by her texts, Nicolai developed the idea of a joint book project. As is the case with all his art projects, Henry Gunther brought together both artists in meetings where first ideas, texts and music were developed.

Co-published with Galerie EIGEN + ART.

A sophisticated and very beautiful textural book.

Ref: GB/10915



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