Kissing scenes from various Hollywood movies, taken of a television screen, are stacked within an accordion and suggest a film reel. They are printed with Friederike Mayröcker’s Text “Brancusi ‘Der Kusz’ (Kalkstein)” and the excerpt “Meine Ruh ist hin” [My peace is gone] from Goethe’s “Faust.” In landscape format, the Goethe quotation runs left to right, parallel to the image, and is printed in red in 72-point Palatino font. In portrait format, Mayröcker’s text is printed in silver in 14-point Palatino. Her text is distributed across the spaces in various ways, at right angles to the images. The accordion was inspired by the Italian movie “Cinema Paradiso” by Giuseppe Tornatore, in which kissing scenes fall victim to censorship and are cut out of the films. The idea for the case came from the sculpture “The Kiss” by Constantin Brâncuși. The case, covered with black paper, features three-cornered embossings. When the lid is closed, the two triangles come together to form a square (red and/or silver).
 

20 black and white photographs printed with polymer plates, hand-set (Palatino), letterpress printed, Zerkall mould-made paper, one-sided accordion housed in paper-covered and embossed case, 40 pages, 14.8 × 39.5 cm (extends out to 592 × 39.5 cm), 50 numbered and signed copies, Oberursel 1994, (sold)

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