Black Heart Press

THAUMATROPIC

Patricia Hansen-Wagner
This Pier And An Ocean
Silkscreen on cardboard
Helsinki 2012

This lovely thaumatrope is part of the cover of an ongoing collaborative project between Helsinki-based Patricia Hansen-Wagner and Berlin-based Lisa-Rike Birkholz. In the spirit of famous correspondences, like the letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Wolf or the letters of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, the two artists write to each other frequently, their two sides of the communication forming one image, like the two sides of the thaumatrope becoming one when spun.
Very curious to see how this project will evolve.
 

Further reading:

Great write-up about the letters between Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann (and Max Frisch): http://shigekuni.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/paul-celan-ingeborg-bachmann-correspondence/ via http://edithliebtihn.tumblr.com/

Lisa-Rike Birkholz & Patricia Hansen-Wagner at the Rikhardinkatu Library collection of artist books: http://rikart.lib.hel.fi/en-GB/WorkOfArt/?WorkOfArtId=438

From Mondrian’s Pier and Ocean series:
http://paintingdb.com/view/9260/ and http://paintingdb.com/view/9259/ 

Tropics of Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYUJoCkX8A