Artist's Book Yearbook 2003-2005 - Book Arts - University of the ...

Next, another group: 10 years ago, two women
from Leipzig founded Carivari. The word
Carivari means something like a happy disorder.
As a collective for artists’ books, multiples and
small edition prints, Christiane Baumgartner
and Sabine Golde understand Carivari as a
platform for a creative cooperation of text and
image.
Christiane Baumgartner has her focus on
artists’ books, printmaking, and video. In this
book, she takes the verses 1224 — 1237 from
Goethe’s Faust and breaks them down to the
geometrical elements of the letters themselves:
horizontal and vertical lines and segments of
circles. Screenprinted, the unreadable elements
add up to readable letters because she uses
translucent paper.
Goethe’s Faust: Verses 1224 - 1237 Christiane Baumgartner
Speed is a book that has obviously to do with her
video work. 26 videostills are combined with a
text by Paul Virilio. Christiane Baumgartner is
here dealing with abstract landscapes, reducing
them to a visual structure and thus translating
from a natural to an artificial form.
Speed Christiane Baumgartner / Paul Virilio
Sabine Golde is particularly interested in poetry
and music. Several times she has used work by
John Cage as a starting point for her artist’s
books. Here it is in 45 minutes for a speaker
including a CD with an interpretation of the
piece by the pianist Steffen Schleiermacher.
Sounds are not just sounds, but letters as well,
as Cage said. Sabine Golde’s typography tends
to turn into images. In this book she interprets
the poem Ebene by Johannes Bobrowski. Large
letters are spread over the accordion book,
leaving a lot of “empty” space to add to the
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Above: 45 minutes for a speaker Sabine Golde / John Cage
Ebene Sabine Golde / Johannes Bobrowski
“sound” of the text. This corresponds with the
“flat land” that Bobrowski talks about in his
poem. Die Farbe der Leere (the colour of
emptiness) contains fragments from poems by
Vittorio Sereni set in Italian as well as in their
German translation. Sabine Golde’s
typographical compositions are dense and
colourful. The text “illustrates” itself.
Die Farbe der Leere Sabine Golde / Vittorio Sereni
CTL Presse stands for Clemens Tobias Lange
and his press, or, as he explains himself: “book
different”. For over 14 years, the careful
research for the poetic application of little used
traditional, fine, or forgotten materials is as
important for him as the choice and the quality
of the text. He often collaborates with other
artists. In this book with the title Mexico you see
photographs by Stephan Köhler. It is a twovolume
artist’s book. Each volume includes 33
black-and-white photographs printed by
Clemens Tobias Lange onto photo-sensitive
handmade Kozo paper, combined with a text
comprising letters to Stephan Köhler from
friends in Mexico, set and printed by hand.