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Marina Tsvetaeva as the woman giving birth, seeing, walking and playing.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva´s poetry ignites while practising on the piano, while deciphering the words above the notes. Her life´s journey took her from revolutionary Moscow into exile and into banishment.
2005 Piano childhood
Eleven differently coloured watermark
pictures, drawing and collage poetry from ‘Haus am alten Pimen’ by Marina Tsvetaeva, translation Elke Erb
Hand set and letterpress
by Klaus Münchschwander,
ten variations copies 1-3 bound,
4-10 as single sheets
in a folder 59 x 42 cm
2012 I would wish to sing
of the silvered staircase
four sheets for
Marina Tsvetaeva´s poem
‘The dark staircase’
in Russian and French
1. etching ‘Birth/Naissance’
2. photomontage Voyante
3. waterjet drawing poem Dark staircase cyrillic script
White staircase + gelatine
4.perforated etching Black staircase
Anne Arc and Serge Chamchinov
20 variations,
35 x 22 cm
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