Publisher's Description
Thomas Flechtner: Snow
In Thomas Flechtner's photographs, snow becomes a metaphor for timelessness, stillness, peace, distance, and loneliness. Both civilization and the
untouched countryside succumb to the white weight of this element, undergoing a transformation equally enigmatic and physically definitive, overwhelmingly magical and bitterly cold. Bereft of people, Flechtner's images of
snow-covered places cause the viewer to pine for silence and transparency, for
buildings bleached by their coats of hard frost and ice floes broken into unstable shards. In their elegant, often abstracted compositions and the diversity of
their shades of white, Flechtner's photographs also admit the poignancy of
the artist's perceptive abilities. Snow is the first monograph to be published
on the artist.
Thomas Flechtner was born in Switzerland in 1961. His photographs of
Anselm Kieffer's studio estate in Barjac appear in Anselm Kieffer: The Seven
Heavenly Palaces. He currently lives and works in Switzerland, in the town of La
Sagne.
Book Information
ISBN:
3907078497
Publisher:
Lars Muller
Format:
Hardcover, 160 pages
Language:
English