catalogue number: | hdv 1999.081.2 |
date created: | 1999 |
classification: | editions & publications |
work type | artist's publication, photograph series |
medium: | volume 44 of the series 'eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publications', containing 3 photographs printed in quadrichromic offset on paper; the photographs show wave propogation of waterdrops falling in an underground lake, the Twannbach Schlucht in the Swiss Jura in 1994. The photographs are wrapped in a paper cover with text by Leonardo da Vinci from his Codice A, 1492 (folio 9, verso) in Italian and English; (in English translation) "like a stone, thrown into the water becomes the centre and the origin of many circles, so that the sound spreads in the air in circular forms, so spreads every body that is located in the bright air itseld circular and fills the surrounding parts of the air with endless pictures of itself and so appears all in all in every part." |
dimensions: | each sheet and cover 16 × 21 cm |
signature and inscriptions: | number of the edition on the last page-colophon (graphite pencil) |
edition: | © 1999 by herman de vries / the eschenau summer press & / temporary travelling press publications/ 97478 eschenau 29, germany / printed by vonhausen und barent, oberhohenried
edition 300, numbered 1/300 - 300/300 |