“In Gertsch’s woodcuts, everything makes it impossible to “pocket” the image as a finite subject. One must go inside, adjust, let one’s eyes wander, orient oneself. Beyond the dimensions of the block (and the print), there is no scale.”
—Rainer Michael Mason, Parkett No. 28, 1991
1990 Woodcut in blue, on Heizaburo Japan paper, with full margins. I. 25.5 x 41.6 cm (10 x 16 3/8 in.) S. 53.9 x 62 cm (21 1/4 x 24 3/8 in.) Signed and numbered XXIII/XXX in pencil on the reverse, from the edition of 30 in Roman numerals (there was also a folded edition of 80 in Arabic numerals without margins), published by Parkett Editions, New York and Zurich, to coincide with the publication of Parkett Vol. 28.
