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The catalog accompanying the exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich presents a collection brought together under an extraordinary gaze, a collection that makes a theme of one of the oldest motifs in the visual arts: the human body and with it its Eros and sex, its desiring and being desired, its vulnerability. Today we live in times when the body as a topic has been done to death. In unfiltered close-up, modern and contemporary art lend the body's physicality a new fit and a new metaphoric, culturally coded, the way art has always done it. The staging of the body has exceeded the moral boundaries and thereby arrived at radical questioning about the mystery of intimacy, self-projection, and vulnerability of one's own and the other's body. These approximately 200 photographs, sculptures, paintings, and video works from the collection of movie director Thomas Koerfer demonstrate this in a dramatic way. Numerous essays accompany the extensive image material and shed light on the interrelated web of gazes, yearnings, and knowledge with thoroughly subversive potential.
Softcover
22 x 27 cm
192 pages
169 color illustrations
German
Out of print
ISBN 978-3-86828-625-0
2015
Editors:
Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Kunsthaus Zürich
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The catalog accompanying the exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich presents a collection brought together under an extraordinary gaze, a collection that makes a theme of one of the oldest motifs in the visual arts: the human body and with it its Eros and sex, its desiring and being desired, its vulnerability. Today we live in times when the body as a topic has been done to death. In unfiltered close-up, modern and contemporary art lend the body's physicality a new fit and a new metaphoric, culturally coded, the way art has always done it. The staging of the body has exceeded the moral boundaries and thereby arrived at radical questioning about the mystery of intimacy, self-projection, and vulnerability of one's own and the other's body. These approximately 200 photographs, sculptures, paintings, and video works from the collection of movie director Thomas Koerfer demonstrate this in a dramatic way. Numerous essays accompany the extensive image material and shed light on the interrelated web of gazes, yearnings, and knowledge with thoroughly subversive potential.
Softcover
22 x 27 cm
192 pages
169 color illustrations
German
Out of print
ISBN 978-3-86828-625-0
2015
Editors:
Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft/Kunsthaus Zürich
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