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Risk. Risiko

Item date(s): 2010

Cynthia Lollis
Daniela Deeg


Pages: unpaged
Size: 385mm
Inscription: Signed by both artists.
Edition: #11/14


Place publication: Belgium
Publisher: Frans Masereel Centrum

Additional notes:
Accordion format with peforated card covers, the one side in English and the other in German. Contained in a brown cardboard box with the title on the cover and the colophon on the underside.

A screenprinted accordion book comparing life's risks to gambling. Photographs, taken by the artists, feature sites and objects from iconic gambling towns found in their two respective countries: Baden-Baden (Germany)and Las Vegas (USA). Seven catagories of risk are explored via statistics: Relationships, Water, Money, Travel, Career, Health and Weather. The first line of text is from a journal entry written on July 14, 1857 by the Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, and the second is a Russian proverb.

The papers are Mohair and Cristalla from Romerturm Feinpapiere. The typefaces are Helvetica Extended and Dot Matrix.

Ref: GB/12734







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