Rendezvous
2023, artist’s book, DISTANZ, Berlin
[Video with spoken word in French, English, German]
“Thyra Schmidt’s works grow out of the artist’s own writings, which she translates into compositions in a range of media and combines with visual techniques. Steadily switching between perspectives, the artist portrays various states of interpersonal relationships in an effort to reflect social experiences. A characteristic example is the literary fragment elle, which sparked the series of silkscreen prints Rendezvous and the artist’s book of the same title.
The titles of the coarse-grained monochrome silkscreens in hues of orange, red, green, and blue based on photographs of flower still lifes tie them to passages in elle, gesturing toward events outside the images and inviting personifying interpretations of the plants.
The creative engagement is complemented by a contribution by the art historian Marion Eisele, who discusses the linguistic and pictorial layers of meaning in Rendezvous, and reflections from the cultural sociologist Sebastian Olma, who embeds the cut flower as an ‘objective participant observer’ in the discourse of the Anthropocene.”
[Publisher’s announcement]
Rendezvous
2023, artist’s book
German/English/French
Published by: DISTANZ, Berlin
Design: Thyra Schmidt
Authors: Thyra Schmidt, Marion Eisele, Sebastian Olma
Translation: Enrico Nake, Nick Quaintmere (English); Isabelle Frommer (French)
Hardcover
30.5 × 24.4 cm
64 pages
13 colour images
ISBN 978-3-95476-563-8
Price: 28 Euro
Special edition of the publication Rendezvous
2023, rasterized black and white photograph, archival pigment print, 23 × 20 cm (sheet size); together with the book; both signed, numbered and dated; edition of 20 copies
Price: 150 Euro
Blumen einer Erzählung/Flowers of a narration
2022, text by Marion Eisele
Kunstform Schnittblume. Eine Ermunterung/The cut flower as art form. An encouragement
2020, text by Sebastian Olma
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Rendezvous
2023, artist’s book, DISTANZ, Berlin
[Video with spoken word in French, English, German]
“Thyra Schmidt’s works grow out of the artist’s own writings, which she translates into compositions in a range of media and combines with visual techniques. Steadily switching between perspectives, the artist portrays various states of interpersonal relationships in an effort to reflect social experiences. A characteristic example is the literary fragment elle, which sparked the series of silkscreen prints Rendezvous and the artist’s book of the same title.
The titles of the coarse-grained monochrome silkscreens in hues of orange, red, green, and blue based on photographs of flower still lifes tie them to passages in elle, gesturing toward events outside the images and inviting personifying interpretations of the plants.
The creative engagement is complemented by a contribution by the art historian Marion Eisele, who discusses the linguistic and pictorial layers of meaning in Rendezvous, and reflections from the cultural sociologist Sebastian Olma, who embeds the cut flower as an ‘objective participant observer’ in the discourse of the Anthropocene.”
[Publisher’s announcement]
Rendezvous
2023, artist’s book
German/English/French
Published by: DISTANZ, Berlin
Design: Thyra Schmidt
Authors: Thyra Schmidt, Marion Eisele, Sebastian Olma
Translation: Enrico Nake, Nick Quaintmere (English); Isabelle Frommer (French)
Hardcover
30.5 × 24.4 cm
64 pages
13 colour images
ISBN 978-3-95476-563-8
Price: 28 Euro
Special edition of the publication Rendezvous
2023, rasterized black and white photograph, archival pigment print, 23 × 20 cm (sheet size); together with the book; both signed, numbered and dated; edition of 20 copies
Price: 150 Euro
Blumen einer Erzählung/Flowers of a narration
2022, text by Marion Eisele
Kunstform Schnittblume. Eine Ermunterung/The cut flower as art form. An encouragement
2020, text by Sebastian Olma
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