Wolfgang Heuwinkel / ANFANG ENDE Beginning End Signed 1st Edition 2010

An Artist's Book Ouroboros. Brilliant artist's book from John Gerard's Paperstudio in which artist Wolfgang Heuwinkel utilizes chromatography to color handmade paper, the sheets then cleverly cut to form the letters that spell "Anfang" (Beginning) and'Ende' (End) - all appropriately bound dos-à-dos. Keiner der Künstler für die die Bezeichnung paper arterfunden wurde, hat sich so auf den Rohstoff des Papiers eingelassen, wie Wolfgang Heuwinkel.

So verdient diese Arbeit besondere Aufmerksamke. " "None of the artists for whom the term'paper art' was invented have been as involved with the raw material of paper as Wolfgang Heuwinkel. His work deserves special attention. According to the publisher, the selection of colors was based on the artist's intuition:'A' begins with yellow for sunrise/beginning of day;'N' brown for earth;'F' green for nature;'A' red for the colors of the garden;'N' blue for the sky; and'G' yellow for sunset/end of day.

'E' violet, complementary color to yellow, the opposite to beginning;'N' brown for the past or transitoriness;'D' yellow for the shimmer of hope;'E' blue for the vastness of space. A deceptively simple and elegantly executed idea, embodying in multiple forms the infinite, the alpha and omega.

Read more: Wolfgang Becker, Pulp: Wasser, Zellulose, Holz. [Rheinbach, Germany]: (Paperstudio John Gerard), (2010). 12.75'' x 10.75''.

Original grey linen dos-à-dos binding (by Norbert Hoffman). Housed in original matching grey linen-covered clamshell box, with gilt decoration to front and blue titles on spine. One of 25 copies (though each essentially unique), this #7.

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