IANNONE, DOROTHY - Ewig Grun

2015 release. Edition of 300. Full-color cover and inner sleeve by Dorothy Iannone. "Dorothy Iannone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1933. She attended Boston University and Brandeis University where she majored in Literature. Since the beginning of her career in the 1960s, Dorothy Iannone has been making vibrant paintings, drawings, prints, films, objects and books, all with a markedly narrative and overtly autobiographical visual feel. Her oeuvre is like an exhilarating ode to an unbridled sexuality and celebration of ecstatic unity, unconditional love, and a singular attachment to Eros as a philosophical concept. "When I was living in France in 1975, I made an audio cassette singing some lines from a famous German song: Wenn keiner treu Dir bliebe, ich bleib Dir ewig gr_ɬºn, Du meine alte Liebe, Berlin bleibt doch Berlin. (When no one stays by you, Ill remain forever true, my old love, you, Berlin will always stay Berlin.) Maybe the song was on my mind because I had just recei