Erwin Einzinger, Skizzen auf Tränenpapier
With this book I once again picked up on the interesting topic of intersecting lines, which I had already used in earlier projects – this time with printed dashed lines. Such lines are normally used to mark where a page should be cut or folded, or to identify an area where something will be pasted in. The quality of the thin, nearly transparent paper (it is cheap, simple paper from a Spanish bakery, where it is normally used to wrap bread) gives the booklet a certain three-dimensionality and depth. Lines, text blocks and collage areas overlap and permeate one another across several pages. While they are clear and distinct on the surface, they gradually disappear into the depths of the overlaid pages. Each page that is turned produces a new constellation. I used various materials for the collages: photos from magazines, original maps, but also gold leaf and a piece of a dried tree leaf. A piece of original gauze and a picture of fabric from a magazine face one another: the original and the image. Everything was cut into shapes and then fitted into the spaces defined by the lines: cutouts. The fourteen short texts by
Erwin Einzinger are also cutouts. Snapshots of everyday life. They come from his book
Das Ideal und das Leben
(Ideal and Life), which was published by Residenz Verlag in 1988 and contains many short, self-contained texts. The title
Skizzen auf Tränenpapier (Sketches on Lacrimal Paper) was taken from his text
Oder hier (Or here). With two punched perforations, the slipcase once again references the dashed lines of the booklet.
30 pages, hand-set, letterpress printed, booklet in cardboard slipcase, 19 x 28.5 cm,
42 print-numbered and signed copies. Lahnstein 1990.