Ortsuntersuchung, associative artistic research is the starting point for all of Kathrin Schlegel’s projects. Distillations. Notes on Kathrin Schlegel's insertions in public space discloses this artistic research, presenting primary and secondary documentations of Schlegel’s recent works, including writings by different authors discussing the key topics in her work. Schlegel’s art acts as a common thread throughout the book, guiding the reader towards a deeper understanding of the relationship between the author, the artwork and its audience. Simultaneously, the symbolic manifestations and meanings of artwork in a public context generate the possibility of social interaction. The jury of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2013 described Distillations as a form of public space in and of itself.
Distillations: Notes on Kathrin Schlegel’s insertions in public space
This book discusses how we can and want to relate to our environment. It poses the question of the possibility of social interaction through symbolic gestures and through meanigs manifesting themselves – in particular those of an ephemere and temporary nature – in and via a work of art in its context. In particular, it elaborates on the context of the presentation, the relation between the author, the work and the public and the meanings concerned move in time.
The publication also contains descriptions and an extensive review of Schlegell’s most recent work, as an illustration of her art practice and as a showcase in which these gestures take root. The sum of this book discusses the posture and potential of meaningful experiences and the process of signification through art in the (public) context.
editing: Freek Lomme and Kathrin Schlegel; published by: Onomatopee; design; designed by Niels Schrader, Minddesign Amsterdam, printing: Robstolk
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