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"Ellen KORTH's work - I hesitate, the booklets for their great overall impression disdainfully as 'book' to describe - is about the search for belonging to her mother who came from Kharkov (Charkow, Russia) through Germany to Holland and destroyed their identity. She had no secret, she was a mystery.
The viewer of these large-format publication, which comes in a cardboard box, the magic of the 7-part work, which also includes an explaining booklet in German, English and Dutch language cannot escape.
On the design of the Dutch designer worked Sybren (SYB) KUIPER with decisively!" (© RIchard G. SPORLEDER, 2016)
"'Charkow' is a work about the search for and of belonging to the artist’s mother and her secrets." (© Ellen KORTH)
„Iedereen heeft wortels. Iedereen wordt gevoed door de bodem waarin hij is opgeschoten en waarin hij tot bloei is gekomen. De stad, de streek, het land. De geur in de lucht, de smaak van de aarde. De kleur van de bomen."
"Ellen KORTH's work - I hesitate, the booklets for their great overall impression disdainfully as 'book' to describe - is about the search for belonging to her mother who came from Kharkov (Charkow, Russia) through Germany to Holland and destroyed their identity. She had no secret, she was a mystery.
The viewer of these large-format publication, which comes in a cardboard box, the magic of the 7-part work, which also includes an explaining booklet in German, English and Dutch language cannot escape.
On the design of the Dutch designer worked Sybren (SYB) KUIPER with decisively!" (© RIchard G. SPORLEDER, 2016)
"'Charkow' is a work about the search for and of belonging to the artist’s mother and her secrets." (© Ellen KORTH)
„Iedereen heeft wortels. Iedereen wordt gevoed door de bodem waarin hij is opgeschoten en waarin hij tot bloei is gekomen. De stad, de streek, het land. De geur in de lucht, de smaak van de aarde. De kleur van de bomen."
- Book design
- Sybren (SYB) KUIPER
- Format
- Seven different slipcased booklets (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm., color ills., trilingual text: German / Englisch / Dutch, Ltd. to 750 copies