despalles overcomes the distance that still exists between the German and French language areas. Thus the artist's books of the edition are mostly conceived from the outset as bilingual, French and German, or even trilingual. As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations. In them, artists and poets from different aesthetic categories meet.
Etel Adnan /
Johannes Strugalla
Night
The text is part of a larger poetic cycle by Etel and published here for the first time.
It is composed by nine short but intense stanzas English translated into French and German in this book – alternating with sections of an drawing by Johannes Strugalla. The entire was translated into a woodcut which is part of the book.
A second section has been added to the book, celebrating Etel Adnan’s 90th birthday with “Landscape Meditations”, text by Ulrike Stoltz, and “Place Saint-Sulpice”, poem by Johannes Strugalla.
Trilingual edition: English, French, German.
Digital and Letterpress printing on Arches and Japanese paper;
hardcover, thread-stitching; 36 pages; 12,8 x 9,5 inches (32,5 x 24 cm);
Woodcut ; 35,4 x 26 inches (98 x 66 cm), folded up 12,5 x 9 inches (32 x 22 cm)
edition of 50 signed copies.
