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Publisher Note english german
“The curtain has fallen” was the headline in the newspapers for the “Aktion vor der Orangerie” (Action in front of the Orangery), which Roman Signer presented to the Kassel audience at the end of Documenta 8 in 1987. This was the first time that the St. Gallen artist was reported internationally. The “Aktion vor der Orangerie” was Roman Signer’s biggest event in front of an audience, but has never before been honoured in an individual publication.
The present volume uses a little more than a hundred still images from a film document of the Media University of Offenbach and presents them as an image sequence. When turning the pages quickly, the series of images on the left-hand pages of the book turns into a flip-book and shows how three hundred and fifty thousand sheets of white paper shoot up, form a curtain in front of the orangery and then sail back down to the floor, fluttering wildly and gracefully at the same time.
Starting from this event, Aline Feichtinger leads us through reflections on the white sheets of paper to a dialectic of culture and nature. On the right pages of the book the author develops her text in a poetic way. On each page a single thought manifests itself, where one can linger and extend the words into a “time without time, into an eternity”. While turning the pages, the lines are gradually transformed into other content, from which – parallel to the flow of images in the flip-book – the text begins to evolve.
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Release Place | Zurich, Switzerland |
Release Date | 2018 |
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Printrun | 800 |
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978-3-03746-222-5
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Topics | Roman Signer |
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Dimensions | 12.0 × 20.0 cm |
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Pages | 216 |
Technique | Offset Printing |
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