Adam Budak Knihy

Publikace věnovaná tvorbě německé výtvarnice Kathariny Grosse. Vyšlo u příležitosti výstavy její velkorozměrné malířské instalace, kterou umělkyně vytvořila pro Velkou dvoranu Veletržního paláce v Praze. S deskami vyrobenými za užití originálu díla autorky.

Human Condition untersucht Übergangsriten, die von den sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen verschiedener Gesellschaften des neuen Jahrtausends geprägt sind. Die Komplexität der aktuellen Situation, in der das Prekariat und die Brüchigkeit globaler Wirtschaftssysteme und politischer Ordnungen im Vordergrund stehen, ruft nach einer eingehenden Reflexion von zeitgenössischen Mechanismen sozialer Bewegungen und Arbeitsstrukturen, von der Machtverteilung und der Ethik des Urteilsvermögens. Human Condition examines rite of passages that have been affected by the social, political and cultural developments in various societies in the new century. The complexity of the current situation, in which the precariousness and fragility of global economic systems and political orders are very much in the foreground, calls for a detailed reflection on the present mechanisms of social change, the structures of work, the spread of power and the ethics of judgement.

vorherige ISBN 978-3-86895-317-6 Is it a waterfall in slow motion, running across the current of time and consciousness? Is it an avalanche, violently descending towards the valley of forgotten past? Or perhaps it is a mountain rock, proudly spreading its solid volume in the enchanted landscape of the world yet to come? The formally nonchalant work of Kathrin Partelli is a generous act of daydreaming the sculpture as a medium of a particular potency and richness. Through a liberating and emancipatory gesture of expanding the space, the artist negotiates the sculpture as a cross-disciplinary, performative collage, between a drawing in space, installation and an architectural construction. eigentlich (2010), as actually the title suggests, is Partelli’s manifesto of an ontological condition of her multidimensional work. Left undefined as such, it indicates a process: a moment of about to be delivered and articulated, a constant state of becoming and birth. Applying contrasting materials (soft and hard, fragile and solid) and techniques (focused on almost simultaneous attempts of building up and destroying, accumulating and reducing).

Book, DVD and postcards published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, October 1, 2011 - January 15, 2012.