Michael Huey Knihy

The history of modern design is not only older but much more multifaceted than commonly assumed. This thesis is elegantly borne out through an exploration of the work and influence of the Vienna avant-garde of the Biedermeier period, an era that brought forth shapes and forms which have lost none of their appeal, even today. If the towering objects that appear together on the cover of this book give the effect of a futuristic city, they thereby prove that their design stands the test of time, resoundingly relevant to our current design view thanks to its creative innovation. In fin-de-siAcle Vienna, the designs of Josef Hoffman and Koloman Moser for the Wiener Werkstatte were informed by the intellectual content of that time. Since then, many of their ideas and the ideas of the Vienna avant-garde found their way into mass production; in this way have they trickled down into today's design vocabulary, primarily via the Bauhaus and de Stijl movements. Viennese An Adventure in Time 1800-1900 compares 180 carefully selected Viennese silver objects from the classicist to the Wiener Werkstatte periods with 20th-century architectural and design objects, exploring the question of Vienna's contribution to the development of modern design.

Die Werke des in Wien lebenden amerikanischen Künstlers entstehen aus der Arbeit mit unterschiedlichsten Archivmaterialien: einem Album aus den 1930er Jahren oder einem Kodachrome-Dia von einem Ausflug zum Eisfischen auf einen amerikanischen See; einem modernen Papiershredder mit mysteriösen Papierresten, einem 80 Jahre alten Plätzchen, das in Wachspapier gehüllt wundersam erhalten blieb, oder Familienfilmen aus den 1950er Jahren. Die Wahrnehmung der Arbeiten Hueys ändert sich mit ihren Kombinationen und Verknüpfungen. Sie beeinflussen, erklären und vervollständigen einander. Ihnen allen liegen die verwandten Rhythmen von Schöpfung und Zerstörung, Erinnern und Vergessen zugrunde. Gemeinsam führen sie den Besucher durch eine Landschaft des Verlusts und der Katharsis, die gleichzeitig karg, geheimnisvoll und seltsam einladend ist. Das fünfte Künstlerbuch von Michael Huey im Verlag! Er ist dabei, in diesem Medium eine ganz außergewöhnliche Werkfolge zu schaffen. The works of Vienna based US-American artist Michael Huey develop from a source of archive materials as wide-ranging as a 1930s inventory album; a 1940s Kodachrome transparency from an ice-fishing expedition; a contemporary paper shredder with its enigmatic contents intact; an eighty-year-old biscuit miraculously preserved in wax paper; and recaptured vintage 1950s film material. They reveal connections as unexpected in formal terms as they are in their array of possible meanings; they influence, explain, and complete one another. At their core are the twinned rhythms of creation and destruction, that of memory and that of forgetting. Together they lead the visitor through a landscape of loss and redemption at once austere, inscrutable, and strangely inviting. This is Michael Huey’s fifth artist’s book published with schlebrügge. editor! He is about to create an exceptional series of releases.