Memorabiler Lochtext.

Grenchen.: Verlag Galerie Toni Brechbühl., 1969. Loose as issued in original pink paper-covered chemise, with plain slipcase.. (28.5 x 19 cm).. pp. (35). With 8 original hors-texte prints by Reinhold Koehler, each signed in pencil. Artist’s book, published in an edition of 40 copies, signed by both Heissenbüttel and Koehler on the colophon page. This is one of the first five copies with eight signed prints by Reinhold Koehler (the remaining 35 copies only with six prints). Published as the second volume in the series ‘Das Grencher Kleinbuch’. Throughout his career, Reinhold Koehler developed a body of work informed by the art of ‘décollage’. From 1948 until his untimely death in 1970, Koehler experimented intensely with paper, sand, glue, fire, glass and ceramics. In Germany, Koehler single-handedly developed the ‘décollage’ technique which he then subjected to a multitude of experiments resulting in a ranch of radical new techniques. His ‘Décollages Imprimés’, as utilised here to illustrate Heissenbüttel’s text, consist of prints produced from flattened food cans collected by the artist from scrapyards.