• Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition
  • Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition
  • Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition
  • Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition
  • Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition
  • Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition

Andreas Mühe Pathos as Distance English Edition

Both pathos and distance play a role in the work of Andreas Mühe. In an effort to emphasize the inevitable interaction of these two concepts, the artist chose to link the »Pathos« and »Distance« in the title of this book with the conjunction »as.« Pathos as Distance. Not in the sense of a comparison, as in »as tasty as an apple,« but rather as a transformation of one concept into the other and their mutual dependency. Pathos becomes distance, and this distance becomes a precondition that allows for pathos. Mühe’s themes are often ambiguous, already emotional, and charged by their respective historical context: Christmas trees, chancellors, the chalk cliffs on Rügen, the Obersalzberg.
Andreas Mühe comes from a theatrical family and had also danced a bit on the Berlin Wall when it came down. It is to this upheaval that he owes the fact that he grew up with contrasts, thinks in terms of contradictions, and fed on a hint of dialectics as a substitute for mother’s milk. It is here that he sees the origins of his capability to constantly change perspective and transform pathos into distance. The photographs by Andreas Mühe are accompanied by excerpts from the novel 1913 – The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies.

Website Andreas Mühe


Cloth hardcover with dust jacket 23 x 28,8 cm 260 pages 150 color illustrations English Out of print ISBN 978-3-86828-832-2 2017

Artist:

Andreas Mühe

Editor:

Ingo Taubhorn, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Texts:

Dirk Luckow, Benita von Maltzahn, Ingo Taubhorn

Design:

Neue Gestaltung, Berlin, Peter Stenkhoff, Anna Bühler


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Exhibitions

Andreas Mühe - Stories of Conflict
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
16.02.–19.06.2022

Vater Körper Kind – Mensch Macht Mneme
Kunsverein Augsburg
01.12.2019 – 23.02.2020

GENERATIONEN (Group Exhibition)
CAPITIS, Berlin
06.10. – 17.11.2018

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
19.05. – 20.08.2017

Book Signings

28.06.2017, 7pm
Bibliothek F.C. Gundlach im Haus der Photographie, Hamburg

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