Beate Passow : monkey business / Herausgeber, Michael Buhrs ; Autoren, Michael Buhrs, Ulrich Wilmes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Passow, Beate, artist.

Buhrs, Michael, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Wilmes, Ulrich, 1953- writer of supplementary textual content.

Museum Villa Stuck, host institution.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Passow, Beate--Exhibitions.

Passow, Beate.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

104 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Monkey business

Place of Publication:

Berlin : DCV, Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft, [2020]

Language Note:

Texts in German and English.

Summary:

Beate Passow (b. Stadtoldendorf, Germany, 1945; lives and works in Munich) creates installations, photodocumentaries, and collages that seek to salvage her subjects from oblivion, though as she sees it, her art is an effort to come to terms not so much with the past as with the present. When her compositional inventions touch on painful memories, their objective is not to arrive at new insights. Rather, she aims to uncover visible and verifiable states of affairs and throw them into sharp relief. In her cycle of pictures Monkey Business, the artist unfolds a mysterious fairy-tale world with a political edge. Strange animals and mythical figures populate the large-format black-and-white tableaux, which a closer look reveals to be woven tapestries. The unusual protagonists roam readily identifiable locations: Gibraltar, New York's Wall Street, Brussels, or the island of Lampedusa. Behind these ostensibly simple facts of geography loom the darker aspects of contemporary European politics: Passow's work calls for a debate on the systems, economic structures, and political movements that rule the continent. Exhibition: Villa Stuck, München, Germany (19.05. - 22.11.2020).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Museum Villa Stuck, München, May 19 - November 22, 2020.

ISBN:

9783969120187

3969120187

OCLC:

1240702158

Publisher Number:

9783969120187