Verzamelalbum met 70 ex libris van Pam Georg Rueter 1916 - 1998

This is Pam Georg Rueter’s album of seventy bookplates, made sometime in the twentieth century. The approach to mark making and the colours here feels like a process of quiet accumulation. Focusing on the surface of the book, the gold rectangle at the centre catches the light, drawing your eye to the middle of the work. The gold leaf is applied to suggest the shape of a book, or maybe a doorway. The frame around the edge in a similar gold, gives the whole work a sense of containment. Think of Agnes Martin and her subtle grids, or the quiet books of Etel Adnan, Rueter’s work shows the ongoing conversation of abstraction that exists across time. What seems simple can often be the most complex thing of all!