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![Palimpsest 004 and 012, 330 x 200 cm each, latex print on truck tarpaulin, 2019](https://axel-malik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/malik-bundeskunsthalle-2019-9046_dxO_52-1920x1250.jpg)
![The ill. on the left (© Klassik Stiftung Weimar) shows an original page of Goethe's Arabic writing exercises. The ill. in the middle shows one of my chosen excerpts, from which I have taken Goethe's writing in digitised form. In all of the palimpsests I transformed Goethe's writing traces (shown here in red for clarity) into a vector file and uploaded them in this form onto an electronic writing tablet. Using an electronic stylus I added one or more layers of writing, which highlight certain characteristics or parameters of the original.](https://axel-malik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/malik-bukuha-g3-ff1-1920x1008.jpg)
![Palimpsest 004 and 012, 330 x 200 cm each, latex print on truck tarpaulin, 2019](https://axel-malik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/malik-palimpsest-004-0121-1920x1008.jpg)
![Detail: Palimpsest 004](https://axel-malik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/malik-palimpsest004detail-21-1920x1008.jpg)
![Detail: Palimpsest 012](https://axel-malik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/malik-palimpsest012-einzel1-1920x1008.jpg)
An exhibition of the Bundeskunsthalle and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in cooperation with the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt/Main, the Goethe Museum Düsseldorf and the Museum Casa di Goethe, Rome, under the patronage of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.