"The Pictures of the Book Artists IX": Stadtwerke and Klingspor Museum present new exhibition
12.11.2019 – The exhibition "The Pictures of the Book Artists IX - Anja Harms and Eberhard Müller-Fries" by Stadtwerke Offenbach Holding GmbH in cooperation with the Klingspor Museum opened on Wednesday evening, November 20, 2019, at Senefelderstraße 162. Numerous interested visitors came to the SOH to talk to the two artists.
With this exhibition series, which was launched in 2010 in cooperation with the Klingspor Museum, Stadtwerke Offenbach is paying tribute to the free painting and printmaking of artists whose top-class book and letter art is collected and exhibited by the Klingspor Museum Offenbach. As books always have several sides, this time the exhibition pays tribute to two creative artists who create one book after the other. They transform texts into pictures and vice versa. In doing so, they are constantly realigning their special skills for drawing and etching, linocuts and woodcuts.
Graphic and organic qualities
Artists' books have characterized Anja Harms' work since she graduated from the HfG Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach in 1988. With consistency and urgency, she has created a graphic language in books that has attracted widespread attention. Her skills in conceptual as well as technical realization always guarantee the highest quality of her books - as evidenced by purchases from the Tate Gallery in London and the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
Since 2011, Anja Harms has found her counterpart in Eberhard Müller-Fries. The artist from Offenbach demonstrates his penchant for the organic: his wooden works bring the grown into the form of the respective work. The artist translates the inner constitution of the material into a formal language that extends into the space. The same motivation can be seen on the pages of his books: what cannot be read literally is revealed to the eye as the language of traces, which can also be followed in the rooms of the SOH.
The ninth consecutive show at the SOH runs until fall 2020 and can be seen by appointment: Telephone 069/840004-168 or email uksoh-ofde
