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Gabriel Delmas: Largemouths (Hollow Press 2016)

688 wortlose Seiten, inspiriert von dem Gemälde "Saturn verschlingt eines seiner Kinder" von Francisco Goya (im Zyklus "Pinturas Negras / Schwarze Gemälde" 1820)

Inspired by Francisco Goya’s Saturno devorando a un hijo, Delmas tells a story from the dawn of time, when the world was obscure and hostile, inhabited by strange and frightful creatures. The greatest among them, the Largemouths, fought for the domination of the continents, while men took their first step on Earth and spectral entities created the earliest forms of art.

Largemouths is a wordless book of 688 black and white pages, printed in size 16 x 21,5 cm on munken paper of 80g, 2 full-color interior pages, full-color cover and backcover, stitched paperback binding, “mushroom” plasticization (...)