PETER POMMERER

The Black Angel’s Dead Song

Bright, kaleidoscopic dream worlds are at the heart of Berlin-based artist Peter Pommerer’s work, and The Black Angel’s Dead Song is no exception. A catalogue from his 2008 exhibition at The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Mishima, Japan, this book features three sections: “The Prologue,” “The Angel’s Dream,” and “The Explosion.” The 98 colored-pencil drawings are accompanied by a running narrative of captions written by the artist, creating something of a graphic novel. Pommerer is hailed for his brimming vitality and his ability to celebrate the early artistic experiences of childhood in vivid colors and bold strokes.

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Power?… To Which People?

Dutch installation artist/political activist Jonas Staal has made a career of making people angry, with projects like roadside “monuments” featuring the face of a notorious right-wing politician and Car Bomb Wreckage, in which he exhibited the debris from two Iraq car bombings as sculpture in Rotterdam. This book is an extensive collection of texts, pamphlets and manifestoes either written by Staal or written by an international group of critics and curators inspired, infuriated, transformed or amazed by his work. No matter what their viewpoint, the contributing authors focus, literally and figuratively, on the formulation of new forms of resistance against the culture of irony – a field in which Staal is an undisputed leader.

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