Public utilities bring "fire nets" to the Klingspor Museum

Pictures by the artist couple were on display from November 2019 to fall 2020 in the exhibition "The Pictures of the Book Artists IX - Anja Harms and Eberhard Müller-Fries" in the Stadtwerke premises on Senefelder Straße. Following the joint show with the Klingspor Museum, Stadtwerke has acquired an impressive unique book for its collection for the ninth time in a row, which was recently presented to the museum.

"We are very grateful to Stadtwerke for allowing us to show this work with its unique format and material in our current exhibition," emphasized Soltek. In keeping with the title "Fire Nets", the cover is made of blackened oak wood cut into the shape of a net. "In the artist's book, language and image as well as the individual pages are also interlinked," explained Soltek. Two poems are depicted: "Seelied" by Paul Celan and "Schranken" by Ingeborg Bachmann - "thus the work also stands for a special lyrical quality".

The two authors had an intensive relationship after the Second World War - just like the artists Anja Harms and Eberhard Müller-Fries, who met in the mid-1990s and discovered many parallels in their work. "Thanks to Stadtwerke Offenbach, we can now present their first joint work in Offenbach," says a delighted Soltek.

Stadtwerke Offenbach has been supporting the renowned Klingspor Museum with €7,500 net per year since 2010 and in return receives an annual exhibition "The Pictures of the Book Artists" in the company center. "After the coronavirus-related break last year, we would like to ensure this high artistic quality in our offices and corridors again from fall 2021," announced Walther. "This inspires our employees as well as our guests." The Managing Director was particularly impressed by the ensemble that surrounds the newly acquired work in the current artists' books exhibition until May 23. Oversized, vertically positioned pages enlarge the book theme into the middle of the room: "This is a truly unique work."