Michail Karasik

(1953 - 2017)

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Mikhail Karasik

Ecclesiastes 2000

St. Petersburg 2002

440 x 297 mm.

Edition: 15. - Copy no. 7/15

 

Ecclesiastes 2000 written by the artist refers to the

book Ecclesiastes in the Bible. It consists of 6 folded

sheets (24 pages) of white paper with six full page

colour lithographs illustrating the text lithographed in

green. The Russian language text was written with reed

pen, the separate English translation is silkscreened

on 7 folded sheets of paper. Both the loose sheets of

the book and the appendix are kept in a lithographed

paper cover. The 15 copy edition as well as the

supplementary artist proof have two slipcases: the

first of folded Plexiglas, the second made of black

cardboard.

 

References:

Hellyer 2006, no. 914