MY OGRE BOOK, SHADOW THEATER, MIDNIGHT

This intimate and gorgeously produced book pairs Belgian artist-poet Marcel Broodthaerss earliest collections of poetry My Ogre Boo k (1957) and Midnight (1960) with an eighty-image projection work Shadow Theater (1973-74) made toward the end of his too brief life . Together these works reveal a dizzyingly prodigious interplay between the images and textsparticularly illuminating Broodthaerss use of the oblique and dark fairytale framework within (and against) which he plays with reflections and reproductions, inversions and fictions...[Read more]