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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Salon Verlag |
Year | 2012 |
Cover | Softcover |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-89770-410-7 |
Pages | 64 |
Weight | 356 g |
Illustrations | with 45 col. ills |
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Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunsthalle Bremen |
Article ID | art-13125 |
In the 1980s, Bernhard Johannes Blume produced a number of “board pictures”, created in the style of petty bourgeois living room culture, from used inexpensive furniture, the pseudo veneer of which he complemented with philosophical terminology.
This juxtaposition of text and pictorial surface structure reveals Blume’s ironically poetic and humorous way of dealing with the metaphysical-religious heritage of Western culture. The artist team of Johannes Bernhard Blume and his wife Anna is known more than anything else for its series of generally multi-panelled, large-scale photographs.
“He cut these boards from old pieces of furniture, which played a central role in our staged photographs from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. Bernhard Johannes Blume recycled the odds and ends of these pieces of furniture made of particle board and created handy pictorial objects by using the ‘genuine wood’ imitations of oak, beech and birch for the ‘sporadic updating of his painting’…” (Anna Blume in: “Wunderkammermusik”, 2011)