Hartmut Andryczuk, Covukrain, Redfox Press, Blue Fox Collection, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland, 2022, ed. 70

Another cool silk-screened accordion in the Blue Fox accordion series from the folks at Redfoxpress. There are two other accordions by this German artist in this blog, and like this one they all display his own unique visual poetry that combines words and images, coupled with the dark and brooding quality of his drawings. This work combines a text about Covid with the war in Ukraine, see complete texts below.

10 pages double-sided, individually 6.25" x 3.75", and when fully opened 3ft 1.5"

"Science has found a way to inflate coronaviruses as big as tennis balls. Finally the military 

had the opportunity to bomb them in eastern europe (ukraine)"

"After the war the military and virologists saved all the remaining variants."

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Maria Eichhorn, 72 Bilder (72 Pictures), supplement to catalogue 'Der zerbrochene Spieger: Positionen zur Malerei,' Museumquartier Messepalast, Vienna, 1993

This gatefold accordion catalogue was published as a supplement to the exhibition catalogue for Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen zur Malerei (The Broken Mirror: Positions on Painting) co-curated by Kasper Konig and Hans-Ulrich Obrist and shown originally at the Museumquartier Messepalast, Vienna, 1993. 

These minimalist works were created during Eichhorn's 1992/93 exhibition Qui, Quoi, Ou, at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris. A German artist known for her site-specific works, she represented Germany at the 2022 Venice Biennale. While a relatively traditional gatefold accordion publication, however, I particularly enjoy the pure visuality of all these differently colored paintings when the catalogue is unfolded.

On the reverse side is information about each individual work including date and the title/color of each work in 3 languages

6 double-sided pages, individually 8.25" x 5.75" and when fully opened 2ft 10.5".

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