Oro

Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
Images/graphics: Peter Malutzki
Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
Categories: Bookwork / Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books

Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/02.03 Place/Shelf:3AL

Book title:	Oro
Year made:	2002
Place made:	Germany
Original:	Yes
Edition: (No. in Edition)	40 (30)
Dimensions:	125 x 200
Binder:	bound by Ricarda Rau
Physical description:	cloth case binding, hard cover
Medium:	text, graphics, found objects (bank notes)
Further information:
ORO translates GOLD. "The chosen texts (from Brothers Grimm fairy tales) contain the word gold and put together into a kind of text collage" and illustrated with "pictographs printed in shades of yellow. Two of them were gilded with 24 carat gold leaf. Seven original bank notes from various countries are bound into the volume." (p. 196) "The old alchemical symbol for gold adorns the front and back covers of ORO ... The spinners of gold and the spinners of tales here share a common thread: gold is beautiful and desirable on the surface, but what lies beneath may be strange indeed. On the fantastical planet Tlön as on Earth, in fairy tales as in reality, fiction is nearly inseparable from truth." (p. 98) (from the catalogue)