Author: Kessels, Erik.
Title: Unfinished Father. (Signed).
Description: Paris, RVB Books, 2015. Stiff photo-pictorial wrappers (softcover), 17 X 23 cms, 72 pp. with 31 photographs including 4 photographic stickers. As new. ISBN 9791090306387. Unfinished Father is a very personal project. Erik Kessels father suffered a stroke and can barely speak or move since. Prior to this, he was extremely active. His projects included restoring examples of that Italian icon: the Fiat 500 (or ?Topolino?.) Before his stroke, he'd completed four such restorations and was working on a fifth, the half-finished carapace of which was left abandoned at his home. This work is about a man who - like his vehicle - will never be complete, but remain forever interrupted. The unfinished Topolino is the reverse of his father's situation in life: he was a man who didn't like to leave things undone, who saw them to their end. We can attempt to control our circumstances, but in the final analysis they control us. Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies being numbered and signed in pen in colophon.

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