First edition of Flesh of stone by Michael Kenna (2022)
Large format hardback in as new condition
Presented in a slipcase
In a limited edition of 689 numbered copies
Please note that the signed copy is signed by Michael Kenna to front end page
Text in English and French
About
FLESHofSTONEisa collector art book, bilingual English-French, printed in 689 copies numbered by hand, bound and presented in a red embossed case.
Michael Kenna is drawn to the vestiges of humankinds activity within the natural world, to places where human action has ceased, or to places where forgetting has established itselfthe abandoned cemetery, the lonely avenues of a park in winter. But out of what he finds there Kenna does not produce images of extinction or finitude, of what has passed, but rather what lives on through a presence which has not been properly recorded, the hidden life behind objects, as explored in the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and Georges Rodenbach or the writings of Proust, until the moment Kennas lens endorses, emphasises that presence.
Will Stone
