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 As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations.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.
Cozette de Charmoy
oracle
Relying on Greek mythology, Cozette de Charmoy develops her vision of past and contemporary conflicts
in History. For this artist/author, Gaia’s myth, the myth of Mother Earth, the defeat of the original Woman, has become the metaphor for the calamity weighing
on the world today.
The composition of the book takes its source in ancient drama: a narrator, a commentator, a chorus and a priestess succeed each other.
Original text and artwork by Cozette de Charmoy, with quotations by St. John’s Revelation, Herodotus, Hans Jonas, Etel Adnan.
Trilingual: English, French, German. German translation, book design and realization by Françoise Despalles and Johannes Strugalla.
54 pages, 35,5 × 26 cm. Ultrachrome print on Arches paper.
Edition: 50 signed and numbered copies, 7 copies (I–VII)
with an original artwork by Cozette de Charmoy in a slipcase.
Paris / Mainz, 2006.
