Mathias Kessler : Nowhere to Be Found (9783775738231)

The work of Mathias Kessler (*1968) critiques and re-imagines the contemporary concept of nature. Quoting from art history, philosophy, and ecopolitical debates, he restages representations of natural processes with humor and gravitas. Romantic painting, land art, and digital renderings compete and collide in order to unhinge familiar oppositions: nature/culture; representation/experience; ideology/aesthetics. For example, the viewer does not know whether the images are photographs of a spectacle of nature or perhaps digitalized artificial landscapes: in the installation The Sea of Ice, there is a picture featuring icebergs as lifeless Hollywood sets staged in wan light, and the viewer is invited to combine looking at the miniature reproduction of a masterpiece in the freezer of a refrigerator with a sip from a bottle of the beer cooling in the lower compartment. Exhibition: Kunsthal Rotterdam 12.9.-13.12.2015

Product details

• Format Hardback | 304 pages
• Dimensions 240 x 300 x 33.53mm | 2,060g
• Publication date 25 Aug 2015
• Publisher Hatje Cantz
• Publication City/Country Ostfildern, Germany
• Language English
• Illustrations note 329 Abb.
• ISBN10 3775738231
• ISBN13 9783775738231
• Bestsellers rank 3,307,068

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