EDITION LAMMERHUBER presents PRISMA Kunst.Werk. - A work of art on the wall, the book taken in the hand becomes the catalogue of its own exhibition
The flux of images by Dagmar Varady depicts the libraries and workspaces of ‘researchers in the broadest sense’. A selection of 23 photographs in a concertina-fold format conveys the cognitive horizon of the knowledge spaces behind the visual research on the respective genius loci.
In collabration with the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library in Leipzig, the book has been published in a high-quality edition of 345 numbered copies bound by hand and signed by the artist.
Kunst.Werk.Buch denotes a kind of world interior space and implies that there is also a universe within – that of the knowledge contained in the book. Each bird and/or thought that flies moves equally through a world exterior space as well as through a world interior space – the universe book.
“I’m interested in taking a look behind the scenes, the place where the work is created,” says Dagmar Varady.
Material that is quite divergent in content, essays and glossaries on the subject of the reflection upon individual methods of working for the production of knowledge are compiled into a common text in an accompanying publication. The multiplicity of intellectual connections – between architecture, science, art, research, commercial history, garden history, art book collection, and cultural management – makes the process of thinking permeable both outwardly and inwardly. As a work of art and as a work of science, it finds its space in the book. Considering it as an artistic work, it is possible to approach this book similarly to an exhibition.
DAGMAR VARADY is an artist who photographs in the libraries and workspaces of people she has encountered through her art.
PAOLO BIANCHI is a curator, cultural publicist, and creativity researcher who examines fundamental questions about the acquisition of knowledge in his conversation with Roger M. Buergel, using the example of the library at the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich.
ROGER M. BUERGEL is an artist, exhibition curator, critic, museum founder and director of the Documenta 12 in Kassel.
HUBERTUS GASSNER is an author who describes in his essay the move of his private library with a focus on surrealists such as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí or Man Ray from Hamburg to Perinaldo, Italy.
MICHAEL HAGNER is a Professor of Science Studies at ETH Zurich, whose research interests include the history of the human sciences and the history of the book.
STEPHANIE JACOBS is a cultural historian and Director of the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library in Leipzig. In her prolog, she places the book in the larger context of cultural practices of knowledge storage.
BERND KAUFFMANN, a fully qualified attorney at law and wanderer between the ‘Order of Things’ and the ‘Perspectives of Things and the World’, was in Weimar from 1992 until 2002 where he served as the President of the Weimar Classicism Foundation until 2001.
WERNER OECHSLIN is the founder of the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, with a focus on architectural history.
VANESSA SIMILI is developing a portrait of the material archive and art library at the Art Foundry of the Sitterwerk Foundation in St. Gallen.
THOMAS WEISS, is an art historian and was the Director and Chairman of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation from 1994 until 2017, whose essay addresses the microcosm of the private space, in which concentration becomes possible.
PRISMA – Dagmar Varady . 38 x 28 cm . 48 pages, 30 photos . German . Concertina-fold in slip case . Limited edition of 345 signed and numbered copies . ISBN 978-3-903101-72-2 . EUR 250.00
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Photographer Dagmar Varady
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