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CHRISTOPH STEINMEYER
The Long Goodbye
This stunning, large-format book, the first-ever publication for Berlin-based painter Christoph Steinmeyer, features 39 photorealist works that feel more like cinematic dream sequences than paintings. The artist’s magical symbolism morphs images in a captivating way; surfaces of the luxurious interiors and full-color still lifes featured here look as though they have been melted in a flame. Steinmeyer assembles bits of images from many sources, so paintings have a strangely familiar feel, but seen through a sumptuous funhouse mirror. Even when he apparently works in black and white, condensing the settings of black and white films, colors animate the paint surface like veins in marble.
Softcover / 11 x 12 inches / 88 pp / 39 color
ISBN: 978-3-936859-80-5
Retail Price: $54.00
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JOHN STEZAKER
Marriage
Marriage, this latest monograph in John Stezaker’s brilliant Film Portraits, finds the British artist once again playing the edge between caricature and portrait, the real and the incredible. Stezaker’s medium is vintage film stills, and his delicate, almost Cubist, portrait-collages, which play with scale, representation and – most powerfully – the viewers’ expectations, seem both vulnerable and even more deeply human than the “real thing.” Writes Cecilia Jardemar in an excellent introduction, “Stezaker was making visible that which is hidden but we know to exist, liberating us from the two-dimensionality of ordinary flat photographic representation … and proposes instead an image which reflects our endlessly transitional reality.”
8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches / 56 pp / 19 color
ISBN: 978-1-905464-08-1
Retail Price: $39.95
The Approach, London