Collagebuch zwei. - 2008

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2008.. Edition of 20. 20 x 28.4 cm (7.9 x 11.2"); 36 pages, Letterpress graphics printed in black and red with brassrules. Design, handset and letterpress by Peter Malutzki. Linen-over-board cover with front label. In slipcase. Numbered and signed by the artist. Collage material original pages from US comics. Peter Malutzki: " This book is a variation on 'Collagebuch eins', with different materials and shapes. The 'text block pages' consist of horizontal lines in red and black. The number of lines increases from page to page. But unlike 'Collagebuch eins', where the same green rectangle always provides the frame for the collages, here the number of lines increases on the collage pages as well. The material for the collages comes from original US comics. Unlike the book pages in 'Collagebuch eins', however, they are not torn up 'at random', but divided by perforations. I made perforated lines all across the comics pages, separated them along the lines, and then put the resulting postage-stamp-like pieces back together in the collages. The figures that came out of this mainly vary throughout the edition because of the image motifs on the individual comics pages, which are different in every copy. The shapes of the perforated pieces that I used are almost identical in every copy, since I perforated the necessary material for the entire edition in a single step each time. As with the first book, in version two it was also important to me to have the print layer and the collage layer bleed into each other. In other words, in some cases I glued in collage elements even before the line printing so they would be underneath the print layer later on. Conversely, I also glued collage elements over printed lines, which placed them on top of the print layer. The interplay between these two approaches produced a certain three-dimensionality in the end. In some places, it creates the impression that the collage is between the printed lines. Which technically is the case.