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Memento mori
a danse macabre book of 36 etchings and one cover etching
This series of danse macabre isn’t following the medieval schema of the death dancing with
the emperor, pope or other stands, but a very own and nowadays interpretation of this
subject. You’ll see the death as a manager, as a bride or even as a little child touching a
pregnant woman. You’ll follow the death in his privacy, sleeping cozy between barrels of
poison or being himself terrified by the atomic threatening.
The etchings (3.5 x 3.5) are done in a very elaborated way, a combination of open etching,
engraving and aquatint. I worked at all ten years with the plates before making this
wonderful book out of them.
The book’s format is 14.4 x 7.7 and in its inner parted in three separated parts, one above the
other, so that you by leafing can combine six different etchings at the same time and create
new relations between them.
It was printed and bound 1996 in the Bottega del Tintoretto in Venice by Roberto Mazetta
and became a real masterpiece of bookbinding. The cloth covered cases for this edition of
only 21 exemplars were made in the famous Bookbindery Frölich in Stuttgart.
a danse macabre book of 36 etchings and one cover etching
This series of danse macabre isn’t following the medieval schema of the death dancing with
the emperor, pope or other stands, but a very own and nowadays interpretation of this
subject. You’ll see the death as a manager, as a bride or even as a little child touching a
pregnant woman. You’ll follow the death in his privacy, sleeping cozy between barrels of
poison or being himself terrified by the atomic threatening.
The etchings (3.5 x 3.5) are done in a very elaborated way, a combination of open etching,
engraving and aquatint. I worked at all ten years with the plates before making this
wonderful book out of them.
The book’s format is 14.4 x 7.7 and in its inner parted in three separated parts, one above the
other, so that you by leafing can combine six different etchings at the same time and create
new relations between them.
It was printed and bound 1996 in the Bottega del Tintoretto in Venice by Roberto Mazetta
and became a real masterpiece of bookbinding. The cloth covered cases for this edition of
only 21 exemplars were made in the famous Bookbindery Frölich in Stuttgart.
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