Paul Good, Stefan Steiner: Mein Heraklit

Accompany Heraclitus

Heraclitus has not given up to this day. How could he, who sees in every existing thing an untiringly differentiating, changing thing at work! He gives justice to the flowing, the most fleeting, the competition of all things. His visionary voice still resounds in our fast-moving world from the vernacular, poetry and the arts. Paul Good's new translation presents his words of wisdom in lines of words for the first time. This makes the paratactic rhythm of this form of saying visible and tangible. Born in Mels (Switzerland), Paul Good was Professor of Philosophy at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1983 to 2007, after completing his doctorate on Merleau-Ponty in Munich in 1970 and his habilitation on the philosophy of language in St. Gallen in 1973. A research assignment in Berkeley was followed by numerous teaching positions at the university, teacher training college and grammar school in St. Gallen and Bern until his appointment in Düsseldorf. Since his retirement in 2007, he has maintained a philosophy studio in Bad Ragaz.Stefan Steiner places blocks of his watercolours in the joint artist's book on the translations by Paul Good. The painter writes: "The ancient Greeks knew no word for blue. With a simple gesture, watercolour is applied to Japanese paper. The paint is mixed anew for each watercolour. The colour lies somewhere between ultramarine blue and cobalt blue. The direction of the paper is horizontal. The paper reacts to the moisture, it wrinkles. As it dries, the colour collects between the folds. Something happens. Select. The running direction of the printed paper is - vertical." Stefan Steiner was born in Zug (Switzerland) and was a master student of Günther Uecker at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1988-1992. He lives and works in Cologne. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions, his works have repeatedly been shown in the context of artist's books and paper.