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 As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations.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.
Jürgen Hill
>sur le motif<
24 black and white handprinted photographies by Jürgen Hill of the Montagne Sainte Victoire – Cézanne’s mythical hill. Booklet with text passages by Paul Cézanne, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Bilingual: French, German.
Selection of the texts, translation and realization: Françoise Despalles and Johannes Strugalla.
Portfolio 24 baryta-coated paper photographs (22 × 22 cm), cloth binded box, 43 × 42 × 12 cm. Text booklet: 40 pages, 22 × 21,5 cm, Laser print.
Five copies, signed and numbered by the artist behind each photo mount.
Booklet 52 pages, 22 × 21,5 cm. Text booklet with additional 12 photographs by Jürgen Hill.
Laser print. 50 copies, numbered.
Mainz / Paris, 2003.
