Dimensions

23 x 27 x 2,5 cm.

Material

Printed book. Hard cover.

Date

2020

Published by DISTANZ
Texts in English and German
208 pages, full color

Texts by Dr. Brigitte Hausmann, Daniel J. Schreiber and Sylvia Volz. 

 This publication brings together works created by the artist between 2013 and 2020. They have been grouped in series so that readers can wander, as it were, through various chapters bearing the following titles: Welcome to the Show, An Odyssey, lnteriors, Animal Beings, Ex-libris, Songbook, When Reason Sleeps, Between Chairs, and Here on the Inside. 

 Linking everything together is the impression of a Theatrum Mundi that unfolds before the eyes of viewers. Seen are interior spaces - from the circus arena to the bedroom - and, of late, exterior spaces, the world of mountains, as well as people, animals, and chimeras. These are worlds operating with their own sets of rules, where the spaces and creatures inhabiting them are all protagonists. A tense atmosphere dominates these dramas, which are difficult for viewers to grasp; the situation can change instantaneously, an impression heightened by venturesome angles. One is reminded unwittingly of Freud's notion of the uncanny, as detailed by the psychoanalyst in his 1919 treatise of the same name.