First edition ofThere Is Hope But Not For Us byVincent Delbrouck (2022)
First impression
Small format hardback in new condition
Spiral binding
In an edition of 500 numbered copies
Signed byVincent Delbrouck to copyright page
Comes with a signed print
Published by Editions Bessard
About
This book is a palimpsest, a kind of colorful fiction made of material on which later images have been superimposed on effaced earlier memories.
It is a mix of collages made by the artist, pictures and printings of vintage erotic images on an old cactus book.
Overprints. Drawings.
Helen is a character coming back quite often in the book, in the collages, etc..
She was the artists young Cuban wife but she left him two months after the making of the last images of her in Spain, last winter.
This book is a living and vibrant process, the thinking of a period, a search for experimentation, in the chaos of the studio.
Tons of images spread everywhere.
It is funny, colorful and crazy. Maybe nostalgic or exorcist.
