From the Age of the Poets

Taken from the introductory text for the exhibition by Aanant & Zoo:
‘The gallery Aanant & Zoo dedicates the exhibition From the Age of the Poets to the interplay between the wonder of language, truth, the possibility of mis- or not understanding and poetry as a legitimate access to the world.’

Artist listing from Aanant & Zoo:
Johanna Calle, Luis Camnitzer, Hanne Darboven, Michael Dreyer, Friederike Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dora García, Simryn Gill, Peter Greenaway, Channa Horwitz, Bethan Huws, Vlado Martek, Henri Michaux, Edwin Moes, Robert Montgomery, Michael Müller, Aribert von Ostrowski, Kasper Pincis, Falke Pisano, Gerhard Rühm, Mike Ruiz, Max Schaffer, Carl Trahan, Cy Twombly, Geerten Verheus

From the Age of the Poets
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
07.09.2012 – 20.10.2012

Above and below:
Entry treatment for the exhibition

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Thank you, fog

Found a 1974 copy of Faber & Faber’s last poems by W H Auden. The title is set in Berthold Wolpe’s powerful ‘chiselled’ display face, Albertus, and most likely it’s his cover design too—as he was their in-house designer until 1975.

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