Nocturnes
Artist Book and Poetry
Erwin Uhrmann, Moussa Kone (ed.): Nocturnes. Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2012
16 x 20 cm, 152 pages, 54 drawings, 51 lyrical texts, imprinted hardcover with dust jacket, thread-bound, ribbon page marker. German language.
Preface by E.G. Thormassi.
ISBN 978-3-902717-14-6
Nocturnes contains 51 lyrical texts written by Erwin Uhrmann and 54 drawings by Moussa Kone. The artbook describes in its composition a turbulent, dangerous course of the night: roadtrips, twilight hours, nightmare-episodes, clear and bright moments, excursions in remote areas, far into the solar system, nebulously described secrets, violence, serenades, anxiety, murders, street ballads, ecstatic moments, kinky poems.
Erwin Uhrmann and Moussa Kone have been collaborating in many art projects and focus on the relationship between art and text.
They co-founded the art association Kunstwerft, ran an artist-run-space, the Kunstklappe and the Collection of Stolen Art. In their libretto Missing: Discourse they reflected about the art world. Both initiated the Art Critics Award.
“This multifaceted, dense composition of lyrical texts and black-and-white drawings testifies to an immensely strong linguistic and pictorial power of association. Poems and drawings complement each other and at the same time search for their own ways of presenting content and form. […] Not only worth reading and watching at night.”
Sebastian Gilli, Der Standard Album, May 4, 2013, p.A10
(translated from German)
