Etel Adnan

Sébastien Delot, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
2018

Texts by Etel Adnan, Sébastien Delot, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Otabind binding
118 pages
20 x 26 cm
English
Graphics: Fanette Mellier

June 14, 2018

Curator | Commissioner

Sebastien Delot

Co-published by Dilecta, Zentrum Paul Klee

Etel Adnan, painter, essayist and poet, was born in 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon. She discovered Paul Klee in California, where she lived after her studies in Paris, when she was 30 years old. In the 1960s, she began teaching philosophy of art at Dominican College in San Rafael, north of San Francisco. It was there that she made her first works of art.

This versatile artist, who writes philosophical essays, poetry and creates works with intense color fields as well as calligraphic drawings, clearly found a kindred spirit in Paul Klee.

Etel Adnan speaks of Paul Klee as a first love, a thunderbolt. A passion that sharpened her gaze.