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Selected Stratagem for a Sorrowful Game

Item date(s): 2013

Stephan Erasmus


Pages: 16pp
Size: 292mm
Binding: Belgium secret binding
Technique: Digital print
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #3/12


Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: Artists Book
Exhibition 2017; 2019

Additional notes:
The artist's book contains a selected set of strategems for a ball based game. The strategems uses letters of the alphabet as players and layers in the ball game. The game diagrams out the movement of each letter spelling out the text composition.

Each game plan is an encryption of sampled text from various sad love poems. Source text: various love song lyrics.

The layout of this artist's book was digitally designed. The printing was done on an Epson Stylus Photo R2000 printer using Epson Ultra Chrome ink on Fabriano Accademia Bianco paper 200 g/m2. the book is hand bound using the Secret Belgium Binding method and is covered in hand backed book cloth.

Reference note:
The artist's use encrypted texts and images resembles diagrams drawn in planning a football match.

Exhibition notes:
‘Booknesses: Contemporary South African Artist's Books’. FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg. Curated by David Paton and Eugene Hon. 24 March - 5 May 2017

Samplings: South African Artists' Books. Basement Gallery, WAM. 26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/15174


   


   


   



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