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egard as an attempt of reconstruction. The
project is planned to last for 10 years, with 5
volumes being published every year, one
volume covering one keyword. The artists
regard choice and network of keywords as a
main principle ensuring that in the end it will
be not just a pile of “anything-goes”, but a
coherent oeuvre. Even formally the 50 volumes
show that coherence: all come in the same
format and will be bound in different shades of
grey. Inside, quite a lot of different techniques
are used: handset and computer set type, offset
as well as letterpress, photography and linocuts.
The choice of paper (up to printing on found
material) is also an important element. “But of
course…”, they write, “we know we can only
mirror Tlön in our own world, and the
encyclopaedic idea can only be realized in
cut-outs and fragments. But we hope that the
pieces we find will give an idea of the whole
building.”
Above and below: Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön
Ines v. Ketelhodt / Peter Malutzki
Anton Würth studied graphic design and
lithography in Germany and Italy and has
been exhibiting regularly both in Germany and
abroad since 1985. The book is the object and
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subject of his work, with construction and an
artificial setting being more important than
mimetic representation. The book 22.3.1994
contains colour woodcuts on music paper.
22.3.1994 Anton Würth
Anton Würth also makes copperplate
engravings, a printing technique that supports
his idea of “transforming the book from a
linear rational form of knowledge into a multidimensional
aesthetic concept”, as he says
himself. The second example shown has the
title 20. Mai - 4. Oktober 1997. Technique and
content correspond with each other:
concentration, reduction, linearity, lightness.
Sometimes, there is no text at all:
“Book as a form and media of art requires an
understanding of text that does not literally
cling to writing.”
20. Mai - 4. Oktober 1997 Anton Würth
Frankfurter Edition (The Frankfurt Edition)
is the title of a publishing project of Coco
Gediehn and Bernd Wolf. It is a series of
one-of-a-kind books created by fine artists.
For the past 12 years more than 90 artists
have taken part in the projects that all deal
with visual communication. This diversity has
fostered the growth of the project into a