What a well-made book!
Starting with pencil/aquarelle drawings in colour you chose your language in German, French or English.
The essay With Hidden Noise by Bernard Marcadé explains how the body as a theme became abstract and how the bead, the necklace as a form provoke a form of bedazzlement, leading to blindness in the beholder. Why the work of Othoniel turns beauty into a visual trap. And how the shapes of stranded beads became sculptures and lead to new shapes like the knot, the hole, the aura, the spiral, the wipe and their developing meanings. Closing with the explanation of the title of the book and essays which will stay a secret unless you read this book.
Between the 3 text pages good photos visualizing sculptures formed by strands of mirrored, transparent and opaque glass beads. In the Appendix you will find the Biography, Expositions, Public collections, Bibliography, Exhibited Works and Publications by Galerie Karsten Greve, the publisher of this highly recommended book.
Angela van der Burght
 
GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE
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D-50667 Cologne / Germany
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