Jean-Christophe Ammann
German, English, French, Dutch, Italian edition.



The work of Elly Strik evidences a profound quest for the essence of the human condition, for what makes us human beings. She penetrate the impenetrable, describing both figuratively and literally an inner condition, were outward and inward looks coincide. The drawing of man as the scar of man.

Jean-Christophe Ammann on ‘The Bride Fertilized by Herself’:
…’The title signals a core theme in Strik’s work: every artist is his own bride, every artist her own groom. The focus here is on gender bipolarity, something all artists unite within themselves as a creative motor and a form of consciousness.’…

Colophon:
isbn: 9789079282005 - 2009 - hardcover - 31–23 cm - 48 p. - € 19,50
publisher: Tornado Editions, Brussels

In the same editions:
‘Oracle’, an approach of Hans Theys and Mechthild Haas about Elly Strik’s work. In one sale with ‘The Bride Fertilized by Herself’ € 35.

Elly Strik - Oracle

Hans Theys, Dr Mechthild Haas
English, German, Dutch, French edition



The work of Elly Strik occupies a wilful place in the contemporary artistic landscape. Her work evidences a profound quest for the essence of the human condition, for what makes us human beings. She penetrate the impenetrable, describing both figuratively and literally an inner condition, were outward and inward looks coincide. The drawing of man as the scar of man.

Dr mechtild Haas wrote an essay and Hans Theys talks with Elly Strik.

Hans Theys in ‘Oracle’:…’ It is like the scratched night from which a vision of the etching emerges and a wondrous bandying together of lines, from which a volume seems to emerge, as if we are experiencing the birth of a drawing, an image, an apparitation and a living being.’.. The result is an image that reveals the essence of the drawing’...

Colophon:
isbn: 9789079282067 - 2009 - hardcover - 31–23 cm - 128 p. - € 29.50
publisher: Tornado Editions, Brussels

In the same editions:
‘The Bride Fertilized by Herself’, an approach of Jean-Christophe Ammann about this work of Elly Strik. In one sale with ‘Oracle’ € 35.