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Konstantin Kedrov
Фиалкиада
Violetiade
Moscow: Goppe, 2005
300 x 210 mm. 20 pages
Edition: 15, copy № 14/15
Violets are the subject of Konstantin
Kedrov’s ‘Violetiade’. Kedrov (born 1942)
is poet, scholar, artist, philosopher, and
teacher in one person. In his philosophy
he argues that the growth of a plant is
similar to the birth of poetry and that plants
like verses can undergo a metamorphosis
into butterflies. That is why Van Gogh
painted sunflowers, Monet, water lilies and
Kedrov composed this poem about violets.
Goppe printed this poem on lilac paper
and illustrated the verses with collages and
colour silkscreen prints.
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