From 1997 to 2006, Ines von Ketelhodt, together with Peter Malutzki, worked exclusively on the 50-volume project called “Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön.” “If our foresight is not mistaken, a hundred years from now someone will discover the hundred volumes of the Second Encyclopedia of Tlön,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges in 1941 in the epilogue to his story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” After more than 50 years, his text is the catalyst and source of inspiration for this project, which Ketelhodt and Malutzki see as an attempt to reconstruct the “Second Encyclopedia of Tlön.”

There is a website about the project: www.tloen-enzyklopaedie.de

Photography, collage, linocut, wood engraving, use of found materials (atlases, deconstructed books, 24-carat gold leaf, large-scale posters, aerial photographs, daily newspapers, phone book, US comics), polymer plates, embossings, hand-set and computer typesetting (Akzidenz-Grotesk, Bauer Bodoni, Block, Britannic, Candida, Egyptienne wood type letters, Futura, Garamond, Schadow, Thesis TheSans, Thesis TheSerif), letterpress and offset printing, various papers and binding materials, foils, 12.5 × 20 cm (book block 63 cm long), 40 numbered and signed copies, Flörsheim, Lahnstein & Oberursel 1997–2006

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