Albert Oehlen, Rainald Goetz: D.I.E German out of print
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Albert Oehlen and Rainald Goetz have been friends for a long time and have realized many projects in tandem. With D.I.E they now publish their first artists’ book. Rainald Goetz has put 17 concretist texts of very few words opposite 13 abstract drawings by Oehlen, following the painter’s visual gestures in a like-minded spirit. Every line and squiggle in Oehlen’s large-format charcoal drawings falls in with an associative tangle that completely denies coherency. The texts on the pages facing the illustrations rule out any kind of makeshift sense: they are sound, image, narrative expectation, and argument. The book itself serves as an open space where free association rules, only pulled back by reason. It becomes an opening for letters and lines, images and words, a space for contents, moods, off-roads, and plausibilities. The artists’ book D.I.E is published in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, the first 50 of them signed by both artists. All texts are in German.
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