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Boshoff's artist statement in 2001 on his Blind Alphabet project is reproduced in this catalogue. Extension of this project to wooden sculptures of additional shapes in this exhibition are depicted along with captions of their definitions. The title of this exhibition, Epat is coloquial French and backwards in French, it is tape, a 'slap' or 'blow'; 'tapee' is a smart answer. In the exhibition, Epat is an installation of old music casettes in an asembly of plastic boxes. The final work described in the exhibition, Kykaafrikaans - Poetry Recitals, consist of a compact disc recording of the concrete poetry work held by the Sackner Archive. The compact disc is also held by the Sackner Archive courtesy of the Michael Stevenson gallery. This catalogue depicts five typings from Kykaafrikaans. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Boshoff's work. Boshoff writes that his inspiration for concrete poetry was his passion for crossword puzzles. Boshoff writes (page 23) in an lengthy biographical interview with Warren Siebrits the following: In early 1996, I visited the book artist Robbin Silverberg taking with me a silkscreen print of a poem from KYKAFRICAANS to thank her for the hospitality and kindness she showed me. She didn't seem to like it very much, and suggested we take it to show to the artist book dealer Toni Zwicker.Toni was already quite elderly, but it was amazing to see how excited she became about this work from KYKAFRICAANs that I has made 15 years earlier. As it happened, the great American collector, Marvin Sackner, from Miami, visited Toni's home while we were there. He became so enthusiastic that he decided on the spot to buy the original manuscript of the 99 A4 typed pages that constitute KYKAFRICAANS, and invited us to go and visit him...