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About us
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.
Ulrike Ottinger
| Editor | Ingvild Goetz, Karsten Löckemann, Susanne Touw |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2012 |
| Cover | Halfcloth |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-3462-2 |
| Pages | 176 |
| Weight | 810 g |
| Illustrations | with 126 ills |
| More | |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Sammlung Goetz, München |
| Article ID | art-14909 |
Distant cultures, exotic images: the most important works by the photographer and filmmaker
After starting out as a painter, curator, and publisher in the sixties, Ulrike Ottinger (*1942 in Konstanz) found her artistic home in the medium of film. In her numerous projects she has developed an inimitable, unconventional imagery that seldom permits a clear separation between documentary and fiction. Her works thrive on the dialogue between the two poles.
With the trilogy Bildnis einer Trinkerin—Aller jamais retour (Portrait of a Female Drunkard—Ticket of No Return, 1979), Freak Orlando (1981), and Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press, 1984), Ottinger created a monument to her hometown of Berlin while at the same time producing an absurd, theatrical, and historically charged universe. This publication presents her most important works, including the eight-channel installation Floating Food (2011), in which the artist provides an audiovisual summary of her journeys to distant lands and cultures, drawing attention to cultural phenomena and rituals.
