La Métamorphose illustrated by Miquel Barceló

Text by Franz Kafka, illustrations by Miquel Barceló

Limited edition of 99 numbered copies printed on BFK Rives paper , accompanied by an original engraving created using bitumen of Judea and aquatint, etching and burnishing on BFK Rives paper, numbered and signed by the artist. Presented in a slipcase specially designed by the artist.

28,8 x 35,8 x 4,2 cm 

Price on request.

“I read The Metamorphosis in one sitting, at night, when I was 13 or 14. Maybe even twice in a row, as I sometimes did. […] I reread it several times after that. Perhaps once every decade. I consider it a kind of essential and modern comic (like Cervantes). The more years and events pass, the more I find Franz Kafka relevant, with this humor that was called Jewish but which is a very ancient form of humanism… cosmic despair… […] Metamorphosis: change. The only one who doesn’t change is Gregor Samsa; he may get thinner, but he remains the same from the moment he wakes up until the end. Everything around him is transformed. His father, his mother, his little sister! After reading it, you become aware of something you had long forgotten, something you already knew.”

Miquel Barceló

Deeply affected by this fiction, this is how the artist explains the strong link that binds him to this text which has inhabited him since his adolescence.