Constant Tonegaru was born into a middle-class family from Galați, Romania in 1919. His father was a ship captain, who took his son on voyages to Greece, Turkey and Egypt and instilled him with a passion for poetry. After having finished primary school in Brăila, Tonegaru moved to Bucharest where he finished his secondary education and was trained as a journalist. His first articles were…
Sea Urchin’s Văz compiles nine watercolour portraits of people who were born with a caul (part of the amniotic sac wrapped around the baby’s head). In folklore around the world the rarely occurring cauls were considered omens of good fortune. ‘Caul bearers’ were also thought to possess supernatural powers and the ability to see ‘beyond the veil’, between this world and others…
Pie marks Sea Urchin’s 25th anniversary. The slim compilation of 10 prose and poetry pieces offers a taste of Sea Urchin’s publications since 2000, when the press was launched as an artist’s project on the historical avant-garde and its 19th-century predecessors. With: Henri Michaux, Edgar Allan Poe, Georg Trakl, Urmuz, Johannes Baader and more…
George Bacovia (1881-1957) and Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971) represent two generations in the long line of Romanian Francophile Symbolists. Although both Bacovia and Stelaru took inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and the French Symbolists and were also touched by early-Expressionism, the two countrymen were miles apart in upbringing, cultural background, character…
Tailpieces are decorative elements used in printing to mark the end of a text or chapter. In the elegant hand made edition Finis Sea Urchin compiles 30 tailpieces that were done in the 19th and 20th centuries by various artists, ranging from Thomas Bewick to Alfred Kubin and George Grosz. The tailpieces have been printed single…