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“Art and the City” is published on the occasion of the international festival of the same name held in Zurich in summer 2012. Inviting more than 40 artists to present works in the public space, the manifestation takes as a point of departure the transformation of the west area of Zurich from an industrial ...

Can a sculpture be dislocated? What is the role of the work's spatial context? What is society's responsibility toward art in public? And how great is the loss of identity at its removal? * * These and other relevant topics were studied by Zurich's KiöR (Art in Public Space) think-tank when the square ...

Die Arbeiten von Susan Hefuna, Bharti Kher und Fred Tomaselli sind geprägt von einem Rückgriff auf kulturelle, traditionelle und religiöse Referenzen. Bharti Kher (*1969) klebt indische Bindis direkt auf den Bildgrund oder auf Skulpturen. Susan Hefuna (*1962) verwendet aus Holz geschnitzte, aus der arabischen ...

Zurich-based artist Raffael Waldner (*1972) has been developing an extensive and complex body of work called "Car Crash Studies" for ten years. The object of his artistic research is the world of sports and luxury cars. He is interested in the relics that are left by accidents in these expensive vehicles. ...

The photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White (*1972) explore the complex social and psychological realities of American culture. "American Minor" delves into an important subtext of White's work: the American teen. By cataloguing studio archives, film stills, animation stills, scripts, and ...

Fummeln für Fortgeschrittene zeigt Arbeiten des aus Estland stammenden, jungen Dresdner Malers Paul Pretzer. Bereits der Titel des Katalogs führt uns unmittelb ar in den klugen, skurrilen und tragikomischen Kosmos des Künstlers. Gefummelt wird in vielen seiner Gemälde - aber in ikonographisch vertraut ...

The Swiss artist David Renggli (*1974) uses everyday items to create his surrealistic worlds in which objects suddenly appear to be individually souled: plant leaves take the form of a mobile, plush fabric forms a rare mythical creature, etc. * * His sculptures evoke a world of fairy tales and ghosts ...

The life of Basel-based artist Hanspeter Hofmann (*1960) seems to be a romantic artist's biography: trained as a natural scientist, he turned to quasi-alchemical experimentations as processes of form-finding, and to printing techniques for grounding his pictorial work. * * Seen from an another angle, ...

So schlicht, beinahe asketisch zurückhaltend die Aufnahmen von Thomas Popp auf den ersten Blick erscheinen, so komplex und faszinierend entpuppen sie sich in der Zusammenstellung und dadurch auch wiederum als Einzelbilder.
Nebst dem Bildteil beinhaltet die Monografie auch einen Textteil. Renommierte ...