Stanley Brouwn / Afghanistan – Zambia
BROUWN Stanley (Paramaribo, Suriname 1935 - Amsterdam 2017)
Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst - Katalog 24, 1971, 19,9x21 cm.softcover, pp. [28-4 advertisment], artist’s book, published in occasion of the exhibition (Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst from May 6 to 28, 1971). Through the pages is recorded the amount of steps (“the total number of my steps in”) the artist is supposed to have collected in different countries. The same sentence reported before it has been repeated 244 times, 10 per page, except for one that has 9 and another one that has 5. The sentence ends each time with the indication of a different nation, ordered alphabetically, starting from “Afghanistan” and ending with “Zambia”. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2005: pag. 101; Ruhe 2001: pag. (33)].
BROUWN Stanley (Paramaribo, Suriname 1935 - Amsterdam 2017)
Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst - Katalog 24, 1971, 19,9x21 cm.softcover, pp. [28-4 advertisment], artist’s book, published in occasion of the exhibition (Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst from May 6 to 28, 1971). Through the pages is recorded the amount of steps (“the total number of my steps in”) the artist is supposed to have collected in different countries. The same sentence reported before it has been repeated 244 times, 10 per page, except for one that has 9 and another one that has 5. The sentence ends each time with the indication of a different nation, ordered alphabetically, starting from “Afghanistan” and ending with “Zambia”. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2005: pag. 101; Ruhe 2001: pag. (33)].
BROUWN Stanley (Paramaribo, Suriname 1935 - Amsterdam 2017)
Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst - Katalog 24, 1971, 19,9x21 cm.softcover, pp. [28-4 advertisment], artist’s book, published in occasion of the exhibition (Aachen, Gegenverkehr e. V. Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst from May 6 to 28, 1971). Through the pages is recorded the amount of steps (“the total number of my steps in”) the artist is supposed to have collected in different countries. The same sentence reported before it has been repeated 244 times, 10 per page, except for one that has 9 and another one that has 5. The sentence ends each time with the indication of a different nation, ordered alphabetically, starting from “Afghanistan” and ending with “Zambia”. First edition.
[Bibliography: Lailach 2005: pag. 101; Ruhe 2001: pag. (33)].
