Gunnesch, Stefan: Tender Buttons - Room Gertrude Stein’s text is characterized by repetition, rhythm, displacement, and a playful approach to meaning—qualities that draw parallels to Cubist painting. These principles are visually translated in the book’s design: sound and rhythm become typographic patterns, while individual words and sentence fragments appear as distinct facets, opening up multiple meanings simultaneously.
The result is a visual structure that oscillates between representationalism and dissolution, in which different perspectives can be experienced simultaneously. Blocks of text overlap and shift, while two colors mark the perspectives of the author and the viewer or translator. Both levels intersect without converging into a single, unambiguous interpretation.
Stein’s text is thus transformed into a visual structure of rhythm, sound, and spatial arrangement. Translation and reception are understood as independent processes of reading, shifting, and interpreting. The artist’s book becomes a space between language and image, reading and seeing, in which different perspectives can be experienced simultaneously.
n the center of the book is a series of six abstract prints. Through overprinting and acetone transfer printing, the pages in each copy become unique. er., Engl., Acetone transfer printing, hand colouring, cut-outs, Hardcover with sewn binding, 76p, 7,3 x 11,4 inch, Ed. of 12, num., sign., Leipzig, 2026, Edition Bildschriftlich Request of availability backnext