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February 28, 2006: Book-Collector Artist Creates Homage to Her Burned Library

"Angela Grauerholz's work is unanimously textual, whatever her medium of the moment - photography, installation, assemblage, design. She was the co-founder of Artexte, it may interest you to know. She was born in Hamburg, but moved to Montreal in 1976, and has been teaching at UQÀM's École de design since 1988."

"As an exemplification of her love affair with text, you may recall Grauerholz's fantastic series Privation, part of the Biennale de Montréal 2002, which she made shortly after a fire ravaged her entire private library. Out of the disaster, the book-collector artist erected a homage to her charred treasures by photographing them and thus imbuing them with a whole new beauty in their new state of being."

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