Yesterday I was musing on the fact that so many invitation cards use books in their design – whether it be images of book covers, photographs of real books, paintings or drawings of books, stacks of books, self made books, images from performances using books…..and then Daniel came in and I was explaining my idea to him and he mentioned that Christoph Schifferli, from whose personal collection a lot of the invitation cards in this exhibition come from, had himself planned an entire wall in the exhibition based around the concept of cards using printed matter – a nice serendipity. I was a little stricter in my choice though and only photographed cards using books, not printed matter in general.
John Armleder
Wade Guyton
Bogomir Ecker
Terry Winters
Ron Nagel
Les Levine
Yvonne Quimbach@ New Jerseyy
Simon Burgunder @ New Jerseyy
Today i felt drawn to the colour red. So i have made a series of all the invitation cards and posters with red in them. I just typed “red symbolism” into Google and the following description came up: Red is the color of extremes. It’s the color of passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure. Our prehistoric ancestors saw red as the color of fire and blood – energy and primal life forces – and most of red’s symbolism today arises from its powerful associations in the past.
ENVY
Es war die erste Karte, die ich angeschaut habe, die mich als erste angezogen hat.
Das Wort & die Künstlerin.
C.Z.