A monograph of Fritz Horstman's Folded Cyanotypes has been co-published by Municipal Bonds, the New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, and Planthouse, New York. The book, Folded Light, features contributions by Lisa Williams, Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the NBMAA, and poetry by Vincent Broqua, Professor of Literature at Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint Denis. Edition of 300.
Seven Notes and Nine Poems
What do we see when we look at Fritz Horstman’s Folded Cyanotypes?
Are they a flight of stairs reaching up to nowhere?
Or a quilt made of similar shapes both angular and curved?
Or an iceberg seen from a plane
Clouds forever drifting
Are they mountains and valleys?
Angles and straight lines wanting to curve
the curvature of lines
Are they totally abstract
and if so, is abstraction the most remote from sensibility
or are sensibility and abstraction like the curve and the angle
forever twisted, together, embraced in present metamorphosis?
—Vincent Broqua
