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521 illustrations, brochure with colour cut
Publisher Note english german
In times of the Netflix booming, where every aspect of modern daily life is dealt with in television episodes and every milieu, however unusual, is illuminated in the successful format of the series, the serial seems to be omnipresent. At all times, artists have created extensive episodes, cycles, and series with repetitions and variations.
When the artist duo Huber.Huber was commissioned to work with the collection holdings in the context of the 150-year anniversary of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, their artistic research led to an in-depth examination of the concept of the serial in art. For the exhibition on the occasion of which this publication has been published, the two artists have not only made a harmonious selection from one of their series, but have also done the same for four other important series from the holdings: Thus Dürer’s religious symbolism meets profane motifs by Fischli/Weiss, the light sociability of the sisters Claudia and Julia Müller meets Goya's dark social borings, and together with the refined transformations of Huber.Huber’s Vanitas they form a kind of collage whose hinge seems to be everyday life.
With the present publication, a book has been created that approaches the subject of series in an experimental way. Its layout, which completely depicts the five selected series in an ingenious rhythm, requires a “lecture automatique”: subjectively, commonalities of the individual parts can and should be perceived as developments of the whole, and ever new formal and content-related criteria should be pursued. The book should invite the reader to leaf through, to discover, to meander and (also) to skip and turn back.
The illustrated groups of works are loosely interspersed with aphorisms by Simone Meier, who laconically and with linguistic wit highlights individual elements from the depictions or describes the peculiarities of a series. Johannes Binotto has contributed a theory of the series with his reference to the term “feedback”, and Alexandra Barcal, the co-curator of the exhibition, lays out in her essay a spectrum of artistic motivations for serial work.
On Series, Scenes and Sequences
Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, Claudia & Julia Müller, Huber.Huber, Fischli/Weiss
edited by Linda Schädler, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich
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Release Place | Zurich, Switzerland |
Release Date | 2017 |
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Printrun | 800 |
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978-3-03746-213-3
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Original Price | 38.00 CHF |
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Topics | Printmaking |
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Dimensions | 16.5 × 23.5 cm |
Weight | 845 gram |
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Pages | 592 |
Technique | Offset Printing |
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