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The Quickest Forever

Item date(s): 2017

Inge Bruggeman


Pages: unpaged
Size: 255mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: #24/35


Place publication: (Reno, Navada)
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
This book was made in an edition of 35 plus 5 artist's proof copies.

The pages are letterpress printed from handset type and photo[olymer plates on both Zerkall paper and handmade paper from Cave Paper. The Robert Smithson quote is from his essay, Hidden Trails in Art (1969).

Exposed spine binding. Contained in a beige hand-stitched linen bag with the title on the flap.

See essay on p34 of Parenthesis 35, Autumn 2018.

The Quickest Forever, a contemplative series of works rendering language as an attempt to know, control, and own one’s existence over time. Inspired by the life and work of Orra White Hitchcock, one of America’s earliest women botanical and scientific illustrators and artists, Inge investigates the book as a geological artifact in itself. The exhibition will also feature other sculptural and framed works that engage the viewer in asking how we embody information (text, words, language) from our surrounding environment and how it becomes part of the layers of ourselves.

Ref: GB/15136







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