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From: Archäologen entdecken Urwald in Ungarn (Archaeologists discover primeval forest in Hungary), 2007, page 6 of 6, untitled
Sheet 38.3 x 53.5 cm, image 23 x 28.5 cm
Signed AMVK, dated 2007
Unnumbered edition of Griffelkunst
Griffelkunst, Index of editions 329 A6.
Original etching on 270 g/sqm Zerkall laid paper. Printed at Kunst- und Radierwerkstatt W. Jesse, Inh. D. u. M. Jäger, Berlin. Monogrammed and dated (2007) in pencil below the image by Anne-Mie Van Kerkhoven (AMVK).
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Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven came across the title Archäologen entdecken Urwald in Ungarn (Archaeologists discover primeval forest in Hungary) in a Belgian newspaper of 4 August 2007. “The arbitrariness and absurdity of such a report struck me,” says AMVK. “That the forest had always been there, but only existed when it was seen by human eyes. Does a place become more important once it is discovered? What changes in eternity when it is looked at? It is the same with the images that my hand draws from my body. I made the drawings during the last two weeks of August. I was in Berlin and had a new diary, in which I pasted the newspaper article on the first page.”
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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK , °1951 Antwerp Belgium, studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp and has been prolific in her output of drawings and other works on paper and synthetic material, as well as short videos, since the early eighties. A straightforward feminist tone pervades in all her works, in which the erotic meets machine-fetishism. She explores the relationship between art, science, politics and social issues.