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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.
Editor | Volker Adolphs |
Publisher | Distanz |
Year | 2012 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | English, German |
ISBN | 978-3-942405-67-6 |
Pages | 182 |
Weight | 1382 g |
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Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunstmuseum Bonn |
Article ID | art-52737 |
The art of Kris Martin conveys an intense experience of the finitude of life. Time is essential to this artist, whose relentless engagement with mortality and the evanescent qualities of art has defined his rising career.
His works, which include installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, writing, and sound, also inquire into the possibility of spirituality, eternity, religion, and God. Despite their melancholy and romantic aspects, they often also display flashes of skeptical humor. Martin uses found items that always bring their own history with them; or he commissions lavishly produced objects in formats ranging from the very small to the expansive.
Opulently designed in collaboration with the artist, this book presents recent works as well as images of earlier works for reference purposes.