Raffaella della Olga

Raffaella della Olga was born in Bergamo, Italy. After a short career as a defense lawyer, she studied at the Beaux-Arts in Milan and then moved to Paris, where she still lives. The discovery of 'Un Coup de Dès Jamais n'abolira le Hasard' by Mallarmé (1914) led to a change in her artistic work. While she finds her inspiration in minimal and conceptual art as well as in avant-garde poetry, she creates her own language using a mechanical typewriter - machine-typed text is crossed over with drawing, the indent as a sign of air takes precedence over letter and number. With four keys, one of which has been changed, Raffaella draws in various signs on a stage of writing, on which echoes multiply to breath and silence.

Bernhard Cella is interested in the economic and sculptural framework in which artists’ books – highly informed objects in themselves – can be used as artistic materials. To this end, he conceptualized the ’Salon für Kunstbuch’, a life-size model of a bookshop, in his studio in Vienna. Since 2007, more than 12.000 artists' books have accumulated and entered into unfamiliar vicinities and dialogues. Buying and selling these objects become an integral part of an original artistic practice.