A Guide Through Hue
A Guide Through Hue
Artist: Sibylle Eimermacher
Publisher: The Eriskay Connection
EUR 40
– Concept and Photography: Sibylle Eimermacher
– Design: Rob van Hoesel
– Book Size: 220 × 297 mm
– Pages: 368 pages
– Binding: Softcover
– Language: English
– First Edition: 600
– ISBN: 978-94-92051-75-2
Born and raised in Germany, Sibylle Eimermacher (DE/NL) has now lived in the Netherlands for over twenty years. Ever since childhood, she has been drawn to the rocky landscapes of Scandinavia. A few years ago, her eyes fell upon the reds, browns and purples of granite and porphyry found on sandy Dutch terrains. These stones speak of the migratory routes that they followed during the glaciations. Researching the geological backgrounds of these glacial erratics, she was pointed to two regions: the province of Dalarna in central Sweden and the Åland archipelago in Finland. Her urge to travel up north was reawakened.
A Guide Through Hue is a record of Eimermacher’s observations and leads the viewer to where the rocks are laid bare, to the open veins that pigment the landscape and guide the eye from the moment it is attuned to the hue. Reddish, pale pink, purple and brownish granite and porphyry, often bleached in various gradations through weathering; here and there accompanied by greyish and pale-coloured metamorphic rock interlaced with ornamental strands.
Leaving behind their native Scandinavian bedrock, their presence gradually spreads, scatters and finally fades into the Dutch flatlands; ignoring national borders as well as the boundaries of nature and culture. What can be seen on the one hand as representatives of a migratory, homeless state of being, can be experienced on the other as interconnectedness and surrender to the universal condition of constant change.
Including essays by Sybrandt van Keulen and Harry Huisman.
About Sibylle Eimermacher
Sibylle Eimermacher was born 1979 in Münster, Germany. She lives and works in Arnhem (NL). From 2000 to 2004 she studied at the AKI Mixed Media in Enschede (NL), in 2006 she obtained a Master of Fine Art at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen (NL). Since then she has worked as a visual artist in the disciplines of photography, video, artist’s books, sculpture and performance, and has exhibited her work at home and abroad. Her work has been exhibited at, among others, Museum Arnhem, Johan Deumens Galerie in Amsterdam, Galerie Block C in Groningen, Kunstverein Kleef (DE), Babel in Trondheim (NO) and GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn (GB). She is also active in organizing and compiling exhibitions and is a member of the Syzygy collective.
About The Eriskay Connection
The Eriskay Connection is a Dutch studio for book design and an independent publisher. They focus on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research and writing. In close collaboration with authors they make books as autonomous bodies of work that provide us with new and necessary insights into the world around us. The key for The Eriskay Connection is to convey the essence of their work through high quality editing, design and production. Their editions are mainly offset printed and bound in The Netherlands and they strive to work with local producers and sustainable materials as much as possible.
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