Künstlerbuch mit 269 Abbildungen im vierfarbigen Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Katja Schwalenberg mit einem Text von Raimar Stange (dt./ engl.) Leineneinband, 256 Seiten, 11,8x17 cm, Auflage 500 ISBN 978-3-945111-37-6 Erschienen 07/2017 Serie „Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Maggi Suppä, Chocolat, uf dr Alp, BimBimBim, staht e Chuaä und macht Muuuh!“ - 280 gescannte traditionelle Kuhglocken
Künstlerbuch mit 24 doppelseitigen, schwarz-weißen Originallinolschnitten von Markus Uhr 2 Bände, Broschur, je 48 Seiten, 20,5x15 cm, Auflage 300 Diese Zusammenstellung von zwei Heften vereint die kurzen Glücksmomente im Rausch in Linol geschnitten und eine Sammlung der letzten Seite aus Liebesromanen (auf deutsch).
A Complex Mirror of Society “VARIOUS THINGS ABOUT LOVE” is a series of approximately 400 works on paper by the Swiss artist Markus Uhr (born 1974 in Baar, lives and works in Leipzig). The series consists of torn-out magazine pages certain details of which captured Uhr’s attention; the pages are painted over in black ink, highlighting only the part of the image that interested Uhr most. When referring to this process of covering, hiding, and deleting, Uhr speaks of the “hidden visible.” What has been painted over or blotted out becomes visible in the form of speculation and/or memory in the viewer’s imagination. Thus, the viewer becomes an active part of the work. The present publication contains the complete series. The images were rearranged for each double-page spread, with the order of the ensuing image associations based on intrinsic qualities as well as on the artist’s selection. With a text by Mark Gisbourne.
Markus Uhr (*1974) is driven to that which goes unnoticed, to the forsaken, self-descriptive instant. He is in search of „non-moments“ or, as he puts it, „the white spots that hold the world together.“ Always carrying his camera with him, he finds images in his immediate environment which depict the gaps in our everyday lives. * * In this publication, the artist uncovers a melancholy that Freud defined as „a sadness that cannot be specified and is not directed at anything,“ through his collages, photographs, and drawings. From the arrangement of the images, the configurations of series and sequences, varied possible readings emerge. * * In 2007 Markus Uhr won the Guggenheim Award as well as the Swiss Art Award. * * Published with the Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich. *