despalles overcomes the distance that still exists between the German and French language areas. Thus the artist's books of the edition are mostly conceived from the outset as bilingual, French and German, or even trilingual. As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations. In them, artists and poets from different aesthetic categories meet.
Johannes Strugalla
Interference
11 poems, 12 drawings, 13 woodcuts
In these poems the artist and poet J.S. plays with strange links between memory, observation and deep desire.
He likes to hide the reality behind a rich and unusual metaphorical language, which is full of ambiguity and irony. The intervals are set like breathing.
In his airy drawings the clear and vibrant lines of a bamboo pen are contrasting with the enigmatic content of the poems. They are printed with grey ink and overlaid with color woodcuts printed by hand.
For the endpapers Françoise Despalles has especially made a newspaper collage also overlaid with woodcut.
Bilingual edition (German and French). French translation by Françoise Despalles.
Digital printed poems and drawings, woodcut printed by hand on 160g “Arches” and 35g “Kawashi”.
Printed hardcover with deep blue mold-made paper.
50 pages, 32,5 x 24 cm (12,8 x 9,5 inches). Chinese perfect binding in a slipcase.
Edition of 50 copies and 5 deluxe copies with the complete suite of drawings and woodcuts in a linen box.
English version by Kate van Houten (on a separate leaflet)
Mainz 2017
