Voyages
of Discovery - Japan
Unique Book dated 2012: Colophon: “Reflecting on a black hole in
the toilet of the (?). Impressions from
a journey through Japan in May June 2012. For Cheryl, Bernd”. I remember the wait for this book Bernd had
said he had made for me - “a portrait of a city, portrait of a movement”. I
have quite a few of Bernd’s unique handmade books, including The World is a
Town and 100 billion suns. From Bernd’s website - “born in 1960 on a rainy day
behind the Iron Curtain. Tried to escape Germany after the reunification in
direction Pacific Ocean, but stranded at the shores of surrealist Belgium.
Lives there in Brussels as a happy economic refugee creating artist books and
object boxes. As a printmaker I specialized in woodcuts and wood intaglio
prints.
Robert Rehfeldt showed him a mail art archive around 1985, but it
took until 1992 until he joined the network”. He is also the Editor of the assembling
magazine “Bizarre Cities”.
This unique book is created using collage, drawing and text - a real work of art and one I would have found very
difficult to part with. Having not been
there, but loving the minimalism of Japan, set in a maximum of crowded bussinism (my mental view of Japan),
this book echoes a mental voyage of discovery I have had on Japan. See: http://www.bernd-reichert.net
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