THE BERLINER ENSEMBLE
THANKS YOU ALL.
BY MARCEL DZAMA
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The Berliner Ensemble
Thanks You All,
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Five years ago, McSweeney's published Marcel Dzama's The Berlin Years,
bringing Dzama's elegant, enigmatic bears, bats, and sexy ladies to a
slumbering nation. The first edition of that book was snapped up in a matter
of minutes, and the same thing happened with a second edition a couple of years later. We were thinking about a third printing, but then we thought: instead, why not do it
all new and all better?
So that's what we've done. The format is similar to the original: an
envelope with 28 loose-leaf prints good enough to frame, including
a hard-to-describe four-way four-parter (four drawings that fit together to
make one really large one, wherein any of the four connects to any of the
others, and in any configuration: four square, a vertical stack, all
horizontal, an L, etc.—any Tetris shape); plus a scrapbook; plus an insert
card; plus an oversized foldout poster. The artwork is entirely new, the
scrapbook is new, the envelope has been redesigned—it's a whole new thing,
in a beloved familiar shape. Get one for yourself, one for a friend, and
three for your helpless unborn grandchildren—they'll thank you someday.
Also: Five original Dzama drawings, on hotel stationery, have been sprinkled
in randomly. Sort of like Willy Wonka's golden tickets, except, instead of
winning a tour of a dangerous, racist chocolate factory, you get a hot
Marcel Dzama original. Today could be your lucky day.
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