Book Art – Russian Vote

New exhibition provides illustrations in the Russia year with Gisela Mott Dreizler the third exhibition of the Russian exhibition year at Tonning Hotel Miramar, which, coinciding with the cultural summer and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival at the same time Russian authors at the Center. Gisela Mott Dreizler (* 1941) is a free artist and graphic designer, but also Illustrator; She dominated a wide range of techniques and has secured since 1970 nationally with a fine sense of the interplay of text and Visual implementation a reputation as a first-rate artist himself. The connection of literature and art to a fabric that appeals to both intellect and eye, is one of their main concerns. Great poets and their works are in their images almost at home”. The narrative is the main feature of their talking pictures”.

Many of woodcuts and engravings enrich the texts of the artfully crafted books of the Publishing House of the mill in Witzwort (Nordfriesland), which it operates jointly with its partner Reinhard Scheuble. From unfangreichen “Program the following works have been selected for this exhibition: Alexander Puschkin: the tale of the priest and Toffel, his work man” by 1833. You used the woodcut technique. The tale is written in simple verse in rhyming. Pushkin refers to here a motif, known also from German folk tales: the devil is tricked out with a list.

This well-known narrative pattern with Russian folk traditions of the anticlerical criticism is connected. “Nikolai Gogol: the story of terrible revenge” of 1831; the linocut was chosen as technology. The narrative plays at the time of the uprising of Ukrainian Cossacks against Poland around 1648. “Bypasses the horrors at the Cossacks: the magician” is returned. His true identity is unknown; He wants to impose his daughter Katerina to the incest, and wants to kill her husband, the warlike Cossack Pan Danilo. “By Ivan Turgenev: the narrative phantoms” from 1863. Here is the artist with lithographs. The text from the Late of the author is also under the title ghosts”known; It is a fantastic story on the border to the uncanny: A phantom travels with a Russian noblemen throughout Europe. For the artist, it is an almost mystical process again if text and image meet. Because Mott Dreizler is no Illustrator in the modern understanding, it translates not 1:1 to the text, rather it is approaching the text in the actual sense of the word illustrate the concept of”(lat. illustare): it illuminates the meaning of the text, it brings to light what is overlooked in the volatile read and what stands behind the obvious, she explains and interprets. The texts are alive is because lead is the artist of the words, to select the appropriate technology. Opening: July 13, 18; the opening reception with a reading from the illustrated works will be accompanied. It reads: Gunther Lefeber, Tonning. Hotel Miramar, Westerstr. 21, 25832 Tonning, Tel.: 04861-9090. Opening hours: daily 8:00 to 23:00. Duration of the exhibition: 13 July 31 August author: Dr. Katrin Schafer