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Metz, Reinhold
1942, Allemagne
Reinhold Metz was born in Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany. Raised by his grandmother, he wanted to become a writer or poet, but his manuscripts were rejected by the publishers to whom he sent them. Later, he became an assistant in a printing works, then found employment in a library. In parallel, he had a job in a secondhand bookseller’s shop.
At around 30 years of age Reinhold Metz abruptly felt he had been entrusted with a mission: that of reviving the age of illustrated manuscripts in the manner of the copyist monks of the Middle Ages. He started to do calligraphy and illumination for Cervantes’ Don Quixote in Spanish, German and French. He dedicated this huge work first to Unicef, then to Jean Dubuffet and Michel Thévoz.
Reinhold Metz works with inks in bright, glossy colours and as a support uses highly absorbent handmade paper. Each book is made up of 270 handwritten pages, whereby text and images mingle and form an indissociable whole.
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Reinhold Metz "Don Quichotte"
The Art Brut Fascicle N°13
The Art Brut Fascicle N°13, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2018. In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Écrire en dessinant. Quand la langue cherche son autre (édition française)
Through the work of nearly a hundred contemporary artists and Art Brut personalities, the exhibition Scrivere Disegnando and the catalogue Ecrire en dessinant explore writing’s shadow side. A terra incognita where arabesques, reiterated marks, scribblings, compulsive writings produce “meaning” in a field outside of language by becoming axioms of the unspeakable, of what is unfathomable in the soul as well as in language.
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Writing by Drawing. when Language Seeks Its Other (English version)
Through the work of nearly a hundred contemporary artists and Art Brut personalities, the exhibition Scrivere Disegnando and the catalogue Writing by Drawing explore writing’s shadow side. A terra incognita where arabesques, reiterated marks, scribblings, compulsive writings produce “meaning” in a field outside of language by becoming axioms of the unspeakable, of what is unfathomable in the soul as well as in language.
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Pathologie du cadre
Michel Thévoz, Pathologie du cadre, préface de Sarah Lombardi, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 2020, 160 pages.
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Théâtres (french version )
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Théâtres, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
Reinhold Metz "Don Quichotte"
Theatre (englixh version)
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Theatre, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
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