Cerith Wyn Evans - Delay - Buchhandlung Walther König 2009

Rare artist book published in conjunction with the exhibition Cerith Wyn Evans / ”…”, curated by Moritz Küng at deSingel Antwerp in 2009. 

Cerith Wyn Evans references two publications from the 20th century in both design and scope. Firstly, the 1914 edition of "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard-poême" (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance) by Stéphane Mallarmé, which is considered to be the first hypertext in the history of language, and secondly the 1969 replica of the same name by Marcel Broodthaers, in which he blacked-out all the lines of text in a dandyish gesture and subtitled it "image". This laboriously designed homage contains just one text, spread over 32 pages, whose letters are laser perforated: "Permit yourself to drift from what you are reading at this very moment into another situation... Imagine a situation that, in all likelihood, you've never been in." 

Edition of 500, numbered, #220/500
254 x 333 mm, 32 laser die-cut pages, softcover, good condition