Bidspirit auction | EBEL (Gerhild). GELÖSCHT. Halle (Saale).

EBEL (Gerhild). GELÖSCHT. Halle (Saale). s.d. - EBEL (Gerhild) GELÖSCHT . Objecto original de artista; colagem, ponta de feltro e esferográfica sobre electrografia. Halle (Saale): Edição de autor, s.d. 1 ff.; 200×130 mm. Gerhild Ebel, a German artist from the German Democratic Republic, actively participated in the visual poetry and mail art networks that had one of their most productive centers in Halle (Saale) during the 1980s and early 1990s. Her name appears among the contributors to the magazine UNI/vers(;) , a mail art and visual poetry publishing project founded in 1987 by Guillermo Deisler in partnership with Jörg Kowalski, Gregorio Berchenko, and Ulrich Tarlatt. The present piece is an original artist's object: electrograph on a musical score background (identifiable as ”Nr. 8 Szene und Finale II”), intervened with felt-tip pen and ballpoint pen in various colors. On the musical score, a hand-drawn black triangle, annotations in German (”Das neue Corpus”, ”ob für gutes Verhalten”, ”pH-Wert optimal”), a strip of paper tape with a pH scale glued to the left, and superimposed typographic stamps and seals. The word ”gelöscht” - cancelled, erased - handwritten on the back functions simultaneously as a title, a gesture of cancellation, and an ironic affirmation of presence. The back of the piece documents its circulation in the Halle mail art network: stamps and inscriptions by Guillermo Deisler (Thälmannplatz 12), Wilhelm Bartsch (writer, Händelstrasse 11), and Jörg Kowalski (Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 26), all residents of Halle during the GDR period, co-animators of the same circle of visual and experimental poetry. Gerhild Ebel's handwritten signature on the back confirms authorship. Unique original piece, with documented provenance within the GDR mail art network. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate