Codetta
In 2006 Norwegian artist Mette Stausland began creating a series of drawings entitled «Coda». This is no coincidence. Coda in music signifies the closing part that picks up a piece’s core motifs again. Accordingly, the «Coda» series exemplifies Stausland's work as a graphic artist, representing a condensed version, so to speak, of what she expresses through her drawings.
«Codetta» – the diminutive of coda – is the title of this publication, which presents a selection of drawings from the «Coda» series. Accompanying the pictures are texts by Ina Boesch – poetic apercus or fictionalised episodes from the life and work of Mette Stausland based on in-depth conversations with the artist. Drawings and texts (German and English) interact in a subtle way, while each stand alone, too, as pieces of art in their own right. The sparse and clear language of both the visual artist and the writer is finely brought to the fore in the congenial book design by Marco and Theodora Müller.
Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2013. Designed by Marco and Theodora Müller