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Un-Break My Walls

Christiane Blattmann - Un-Break My Walls
First monograph.
The first monograph on Christiane Blattmann takes its title from her solo show Un-Break My Walls at Kunsthalle Münster in 2019. Blattmann intricately interweaves, intermeshes, combines, compounds, merges, and processes in her work not only materials but also structures, things, stories, characters. The volume includes extensive illustrations of exhibitions, projects, and works, and a great number of black-and-white images capture the artist's studio practice. The interactions of materials, along with theoretical and literary references, serve as important points of departure, and the emblematic outcomes involve text and texture as material structure and patterned surface; vivid condensation and entanglement; and invitations to exploration and reflection. The book compiles different elements designed on a series of shifting layers. Texts by Merle Radtke and Chloe Stead and a conversation between Christiane Blattmann and Than Hussein Clark provide insight into Blattmann's art, complemented by a piece of fiction by Huw Lemmey.
Born 1983 in Stuttgart, Christiane Blattmann lives and works in Brussels and Hamburg.
Edited by Merle Radtke.
Texts by Merle Radtke, Huw Lemmey, Chloe Stead; conversation between Christiane Blattmann and Than Hussein Clark.
 
published in September 2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
23,5 x 15,5 cm (softcover)
152 pages (ill.)
 
25.00
 
ISBN : 978-88-6749-415-6
EAN : 9788867494156
 
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