Title page edition Delirium, 1994, 70 x 51 cm, lithograph and silkscreen on paper Richard Bouwman realised a series of seven lithographs inspired by the poetry and the figure of Arthur Rimbaud, printed in an edition of forty, print seize 70 x 51 cm.The lithographs are particurarly inspired by a part from Une saison en enfer (1873) entiteld: Delires II, Alchimie du verbe. This text was translated in Dutch by Rien Vroegindeweij. The French text and the Dutch translation were both silkscreened. The vowels of the French text are printed in a special way, namely in the colours indicated by Rimbaud himself. It is the frist time that a text of Rimbaud is printed in this way. The silkscreened texts together with the lithographs form the edition Delirium (edition of forty). Each example of the edition is placed in a linen covered cardboard box. The edition Delirium has been taken in the collections of the Centre George Pompidou /Bibliotheque Kandinsky et la Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Art, MuHKA, of Antwerp, Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, NL, the Musee Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville-Mezieres, FR, the Royal Library Albert I in Brussels, the Royal Library in The Hague and the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, NL.
