Paul Pfeiffer /anglais/allemand - Couverture rigide

Goetz, Ingvild

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3775731520 ISBN 13 : 9783775731522

Editeur : Hatje Cantz, 2011

Synopsis

The video and sound installations, sculptures, and photographs by Paul Pfeiffer (*1966 in Honolulu) deal with the phenomenon of the “afterglow” of mass-media images that are rooted in the collective memory of a globalized media society. In works like The Long Count or 24 Landscapes, he digitally manipulates found images―in this case of celebrities such as Mohammed Ali or Marilyn Monroe―cropping, retouching, duplicating, and layering them. The visual material appears in new dimensions, triggering a stream of thought in the viewer while melding works of art with personal memory. In this way, one can experience the role and functions of images in pop culture in relation to the (re)construction of history on both a social as well as an individual level. This publication extends to the artist’s oeuvre the recognition it deserves.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a select overview of Paul Pfeiffer s work over the last decade, including his most recently produced projects as well as his fundamental work which explores new technologies in a creative process that unfolds in diverse media of video, installation, sculpture and photography. For his most widely recognized work, the artist digitally alters old film footage or TV sports events to erase the main characters of the scenes, dissecting the role played by the mass media in the contemporary cult of celebrity. The book also examines Pfeiffer s creative process with original essays by Lawrence Chua (writer and professor at the Architecture Department of Cornell University, New York), Jessica Hagedorn (writer, Philippines), Niklas Maak (critic and columnist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) and Katy Siegel (Professor of Art History at Hunter College, and critic for Artforum), and other writings selected by the artist, including the works of Don Delillo, Ellias Canetti, Gary Indiana and Roger Caillois.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in 1966 in Honolulu, Hawaii (U.S.A.), Paul Pfeiffer spent most of his childhood in the Philippines, until he settled in New York in 1990. There, he studied at Hunter College, and later participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Since the beginning of his art career, Pfeiffer has won numerous awards, including the first Bucksbuam Award (2000) at the Whitney Biennial, and scholarships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ArtPace. His work has been shown in numerous solo shows, including the MIT List Visual Arts Center of Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago; Artangel of London; K21 of Düsseldorf and the Kunst-Werke of Berlin. Pfeiffer was selected for the 49th Venice Biennale and most recently for the Sydney Biennial, 2008.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hatje Cantz
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: allemand
• ISBN 10: 3775731520
• ISBN 13: 9783775731522
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible