CHRISTOF MASCHER 1979

“I am fascinated by dreams,” says German artist Christof Mascher. “For me the best thing is to combine simple stories with the feeling of a dream – with the abstractions that are possible in a dream.” This small catalogue is the first solo publication for this young artist (born 1979). Mascher’s dreamlike pictorial worlds are characterized by strangely fascinating yet threatening hybrid beings, which are linked to a psychically alarming sense of power. His colorful, foreboding pieces – some of which are miniatures meticulously drawn on veneer – conjure what his teacher, Walter Dahn, describes as a “post-World War IV atmosphere.” An exciting introduction to an important emerging artist.

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SIMON DYBBROE MØLLER

Kompendium

Kompendium is an artist book accompanying Danish performance and installation artist Simon Dybbroe Møller’s first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunstverein Hannover. His reflection on Conceptual art’s systematic processes and forms uses apparently rational processes to achieve quietly mystifying results. With his vivid taste for wit and formal exactitude, the artist sets all manner of references, quotations and re-creations in an unfamiliar setting. The first part contains texts by nine different authors which illuminate the main ideas of individual groups of work. Each contribution is reproduced as a facsimile from a previous book. The second part documents most of the artist’s works to date.

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