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Ines v. Ketelhodt – Friederika Mayröcker – Brancusi “Der Kusz” (Kalkstein): Goethe – Meine Ruh ist hin.

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(Ines von Ketelhodt) Friederika Mayröcker – Brancusi “Der Kusz” (Kalkstein): Goethe – Meine Ruh ist hin. Artist’s book by Ines v. Ketelhodt. [Oberursel.] 1994. Accordion fold book. 15.5″ x 5.75″. 20 black-and-white photographs printed from polymer-clichés. Handset with three-colored letterpress and printed in red and silver Palatino on one side. Light gray cloth boards, each with the a different title. In a black paper-covered slipcase with a lid; red decorative double-triangle on one side and a gray on the other, which can be turned so that it seems to be a ‘meeting’ of the triangles – or lips, following the idea of Brancusi’s ‘The Kiss’. No. 24 of 50 copies, signed by the artist. Fine.

“The background is composed of 20 photographs of kissing scenes out of Hollywood films, taken from a television screen. Their arrangement in the form of a concertina is suggestive of a film strip. Guiseppe Tornatore’s film “Cinema Paradiso” provided the inspiration. The idea for the slipcase with lid came from Brancusi’s sculpture ‘The Kiss’. ‘The Mayröcker text and the quote from Goethe’s Faust are mounted in opposite directions, each beginning at the opposite ends of the book; i.e. each text begins where the other one ends. To read Goethe’s text the book should be held horizontally.” – Ines v. Ketelhodt.

In the collections of The Rochester Institute of Technology, The University of Alberta at Edmonton, The Arthur & Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, and the Library of the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC.