Description:
German-born artist Thomas Mullenbach plays with our everyday perception of the normal and well-known and undermines our collective ideas of sense, value, and purpose of the visible world. To this end, the now Zurich-based artist explores the discipline of art history and puts the possibilities and limits of painting up for discussion.
This lavishly illustrated new monograph features a range of Thomas Mullenbach s paintings and drawings. Published in conjunction with a recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich, it focuses on Mullenbach s more recent works, many of which he created especially for this show. Essays by Elke Bippus and Juri Steiner and a conversation between curator Beatrix Ruf and Thomas Mullenbach complement the illustrations.
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Brief description: Juri Steiner is the director of the MCBA, Plateforme 10 in Lausanne, and a scholar of the history of Dada, Surrealism, and Situationism.