{"id":2435,"date":"2022-11-19T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:39:18","slug":"artist-books-marlen-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/artist-books-marlen-wagner","title":{"rendered":"Artist Books – Marlen Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artist Books\u00a0Marlen Wagners<\/a>\u00a0from the years 2021 to 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zettels Traum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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19 x 11 cm + 8 text pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Book of Dreams: Zettels Traum<\/em> is a homage to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em> (Zettel=Bottom), to Arno Schmidt’s Zettel’s Traum<\/em> (famous German author who worked with really many pieces of paper) and to the time of reading and discussing. A time when there was no internet, no full-text search – but slips of paper and index cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spiked<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spiked – Artist Book \u00a9 Marlen Wagner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

19 x 11 cm + 4 Textseiten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second book of dreams: a nightmare – beware, no happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Spite of Everything<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Spite of Everything – Artist Book \u00a9 Marlen Wagner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

19 x 11 cm + 2 Textseiten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first book of dreams, its theme is departure, journey – and hope. Short dream stories are embedded in a photo, a drawing, a collage, and the cover and spine are designed according to the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Hours, fifteen Minutes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two hours, fifteen Minutes – Artist Book \u00a9 Marlen Wagner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Flutter Book, 13 x13 cm, 10 photos, cardboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos of a land art project that took place at the Baltic Sea in June 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curiosity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curiosity – Artist Book \u00a9 Marlen Wagner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lotus fold: 11 x 11 cm, 3 sheets \u00e0 20 x 20 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Letters of the Angels<\/em>, only one sign distinguishes curiosity from expectation – the last one. 
While expectation always has a claim to fulfilment, curiosity is self-sufficient: the desire to experience something new, to get to know something new, can only fail if there is nothing new to experience. And this is highly unlikely. The opportunities that curiosity holds are innumerable – what counts here is the sense of possibility, not that of reality.
Whether the angels who turned away from heaven and towards earth harboured certain expectations? Who knows, they were curious in any case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Constellations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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