Sung Hwan Kim

Sung Hwan Kim – Ki-da Rilke

Artist: 
Sung Hwan Kim
Title: 
Sung Hwan Kim – Ki-da Rilke
Authors: 
Sung Hwan Kim
Publishing year: 
2011
Edited by: 
Kunsthalle Basel
Publishing house: 
Sternberg Press, Berlin / Kunsthalle Basel
Designed by: 
Robin Watkins
Printed by: 
Druckhaus Köthen
Languages: 
English
Pages: 
186
Binding: 
Hard Cover
Dimensions and weight: 
16,2 x 22 cm, 560 g
ISBN/ISSN: 
978-1-934105-51-1
Price: 
CHF 40 / CHF 32 for members (excl. packaging and transport costs)
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The artist’s book Ki-da Rilke evolved in relation to the exhibition “Line Wall” by Sung Hwan Kim. In the book, Kim engages with the work of the Prague born poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). The first part of Ki-da Rilke features a transcription and drawings of Rilke’s collection “New Poems” (1907) in the German original and on thin sheets of paper and notepads. The second part features Kim’s drawings inspired by Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus” (1923), which are then further developed in the book’s third part, which comprises an independent picture story featuring recurring characters. These figures are named in an index on loose sheets of paper.