oh no Robin,
she is here on Wed. at the Museoin, Museum of cont. art, and from her tel.
num. she lives in this town or in a nearby village. How could I have been so
silly not to find those sites on the net, I was maybe tired and typed in a
wrong name.
Thank you for your good help, anny
> > you are solving one of my problems. I have a mail written to me by Berty
> > Skuber with her telephone number and I am supposed to interview her,
which
> I
> > haven't done yet because I don't know anything about her. Tell me more,
> > please. And in the meantime thank you for the info!
> > Care, Anny
>
> Ah, there you have me, Anny! If it were about concrete poetry generally,
or
> concrete poetry in Scotland in the sixties ... So this will have to be
> strictly WebWork.
>
> A google on "Berty Skuber" gives 67 hits. Most of these seem to be in
> foreign (i.e. non-English, as what's foreign depends on where you're
sitting
> <g>) tongues, which I'll leave to you. But some English ones:
>
> Longish piece in NY Arts on the labels ... (I see from this that she's due
> in Venice in April/May, which is presumably when you'll be interviewing
> her?)
>
> "
> Under Penalty of Law
>
> Henry Martin
>
> Berty Skuber's travels through the world of labels began more or less by
> accident and without premeditation in 1995, when her eye was caught by an
> image that peeked out surreptitiously from the lining of a friend's or
> acquaintance's jacket ...
> "
>
> http://nyartsmagazine.com/72/law.htm
>
> ****
>
> http://www.rediscov.com/SACKNER/VFPCGI.EXE?IDCFile=/sackner/PAGE.IDC
>
> Links to images (not really well reproduced) of two of her works.
>
> ****
>
> A little sexist one <g>:
>
> "Henry Martin lives with his wife, the artist Berty Skuber, and their son,
> John-Daniel, in the mountains of southern Tyrol not far from Bolzano,
Italy.
> "
>
> http://www.archipelago.org/vol1-1/about-contrib.htm
>
> ****
>
> This one lists all her exhibitions, etc., and has one image:
>
>
http://www.thegallerynet.com/italiano/gallerie/scripts/artisti_home_galleria
> .idc?key=342
>
> ****
>
> I think I'd better stop there -- it looks as if most of the writing on her
> is in Italian or French, so if you google, you'll pick up more than I
could.
> There must be more visual illustrations of her work on the Web than I
> managed to find.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin
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