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Georg Aerni: Silent Transition--Neue Arbeiten/New Works

Georg Aerni: Silent Transition--Neue Arbeiten/New Works

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Georg Aerni: Silent Transition--Neue Arbeiten/New Works

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Exhibition Catalog

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2022. Published in association with Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich.

192 pp. Well illustrated (all col.) and 168 col. ref. ills. 34 x 24 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.

ISBN 9783039420742

Swiss-binding. Publisher's description: Transformation processes are the focus of Georg Aerni’s new photographs. The Swiss photographer and artist shows plastic greenhouses that have annexed whole swathes of land for agricultural mass production, residential houses that have been built overnight on the city outskirts without construction machines and literally noiselessly. He points his lens at olive trees that have grown over centuries into figures full of character, at creepers that conquer leftover spaces between high-rises and motorways, and at mighty rock faces that are being gnawed by erosion. With the merging of art and documentation that is typical of Aerni’s work, Georg Aerni—Silent Transition both makes signs of change the object of contemplative observation and asks challenging questions: about our handling of natural resources, about the social backgrounds to cities growing out of control, about the regenerative force of nature. A decade after Aerni’s first monograph, Sites & Signs, this new book showcases the artist’s ongoing photographic work through numerous individual images as well as new series. 166 beautiful color and black-and-white plates are introduced through texts by Peter Pfrunder and Nadine Olonetzky and commented on with an essay by Sabine von Fischer.

Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Switzerland -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Photography --

Artist(s): Aerni, Georg

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