{"id":6270,"date":"2026-05-14T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:24:49","slug":"artist-books-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/artist-books-2026","title":{"rendered":"Artist Books 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Books from earlier years you can find here:<\/mark> 2025<\/a>, 2024<\/a>, 2021\u20132023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe task of art is to open doors where no one sees them.\u201d \u2014 Peter Weibel<\/span>

At times when it is not art itself, but rather the nationality of artists, that proves decisive, it becomes the task of art first to make the walls visible and then, where there are now stones, to create openings. To open doors is a noble aspiration \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming soon: Something personal …<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“In the Shadow of Towers. My Father’s Land” \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black and White \u2013 again<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black and White – again 1 \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Abstract painting on an A3 sheet, folded into an artist\u2019s book measuring 21 \u00d7 14 cm, offering multiple possibilities for unfolding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN 1, 2, 3<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN 3 \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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UN 2 \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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UN 1 \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Three artists\u2019 books: leporellos with 8 pages each, 12.5 \u00d7 10.5 cm. Eight words each set against continuous black-and-white thread drawings on red paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prefix un-<\/em> functions in German both negatively and positively. Positively, as in unbeugsam<\/em> (\u201cunyielding\u201d), it expresses the absence of something undesirable. Negatively, as in ungl\u00fccklich<\/em> (\u201cunhappy\u201d), it transforms something positive into its opposite \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secret inside<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secret Inside 1 \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Suminagashi on blue paper, Lotus Fold; 10.5 \u00d7 10.5 cm \u2013 within it hides a second Lotus Fold, in which a text, a small gift, etc., may be concealed \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rilkes Hortensien \u2013 rosa<\/em> und blau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rilkes Hortensien. Rosa \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rilkes Hortensien. Blau \u2013 Artist Book by Marlen Wagner<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two leporellos, each 15.5 \u00d7 11 cm. A new reading of the Rainer Maria Rilke poems \u201cBlaue Hortensie\u221a (Blue Hydrangea) and \u201cRosa Hortensie\u201d (Pink Hydrangea): across eight pages in each book, certain words almost completely disappear as the letters fade, while others remain clearly legible. Two new texts emerge, one from the faded words and the other from the remaining visible words, each readable from the front and the back of the book respectively. Monoprints of blue and pink hydrangea blossoms drift lightly across the pages onto which the lines of the poems have been mounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The journey continues: new artists\u2019 books in 2026 to discover, to read, and to marvel at. Expand your notion of what a book can be \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-books-kuenstlerbuecher-en","category-aktuelles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}