Paul Viaccoz, ESPRIT ES-TU LÀ?, Before publication 5, brochure, 36 pages – single booklets, 17.2 × 23.5 cm, offset, stapled binding – published in the Before publication collection, which gathers the pre-publications of authors’ texts or artists’ inserts, which will appear regularly and as a preview before the final publication, L’Effet papillon II (second volume of L’Effet papillon, 1989 – 2007, catalogue of the Centre d’édition contemporaine published in 2008). Text: Paul Viaccoz. Graphic design: Niels Wehrspann, Lausanne. Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, 2021. ISBN: 978-2-9701369-3-4.
CHF 20.-
ESPRIT ES-TU LÀ? complements the eponymous exhibition presented by Paul Viaccoz at the Centre d’édition contemporaine, from October 1 to November 12, 2021. The publication brings together reproductions of drawings made on the walls of his garden cottage, drawings from the Paysages de guerre series, and a text by the eponymous artist. Paul, aka Damiano and ПОЛ, the central character of two previous short stories – Le responsable de l’économat est aujourd’hui indisponible (ed. FMAC, Geneva, 2012) and La censure des messages, (ed. Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier, 2018) – mentions the experience of isolation. Viaccoz’s short text frames two quotations from Wolfgang Sofsky’s book, L’Ère de l’épouvante. Folie meurtrière, terreur, guerre (ed. Gallimard, Paris, 2002), which bears witness to the difficulties of representing cruelty, violence and war.
