Sea Urchin – Sea Urchin Editions

VOID

Sea Urchin’s VOID is a small selection of the 98 woodcuts that were printed in the first illustrated edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum liber. Originally, Alciato’s manuscript consisted of Latin epigrams and mottos only. The Italian jurist, who lived from 1492 to 1550, distributed his unillustrated work among fellow-humanists to convey classical knowledge and morality, hoping it would inspire other…

€ 20.00

Nathaniel Hawthorne – Fresh and lovely, yesterday

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a short story writer and novelist who is generally regarded as one of the leading representatives of American ‘Dark Romanticism’. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts and descended from a family of Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the earliest and largest New England colonies. His ancestor John Hathorne was a harsh and unrepentant…

€ 25.00

Ben Schot – Shiner

Shiner is a set of 10 postcards printed on 300 gr Hahnemühle Britannia in a hand made jacket of 200 gr Fabriano drawing paper. The postcards show fullcolour photos taken by Ben Schot. The set, complete with an obi strip, has been published in an edition of 15 hand numbered copies. Without considering himself a photographer, Ben Schot takes photos with his smart phone every now and then. Shiner compiles…

€ 20.00

Johannes Baader – Fifi

Johannes Baader (1875-1955) grew up in Stuttgart and studied architecture in that town from 1898 to 1899. After having met Raoul Hausmann, Baader moved to Berlin in 1905, where Hausmann introduced him to a circle of artists that would germinate into Berlin Dada some ten years later…

Dimitrie Stelaru – The Magical Tree

Vagabond poet Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school in Transylvania at the age of fourteen. Stelaru escaped the institute’s austere regime a couple of years later and vanished into the fringe of…