Album

Album is a deliberately unrepresentative compilation of genre-hopping textual and visual material, placed in orbit around the work of the Swiss artists Urs Fischer (*1973), Yves Netzhammer (*1970), Ugo Rondinone (*1962), and Christine Streuli (*1975). The book includes specially commissioned critical texts, conversations, reports, and visual essays that, in a sometimes straight and sometimes vague manner, address the larger issues implied in the works of the artists, such as notions of time, the animal and the human, shock, and materiality. * * With a similarly eclectic mix of historical analysis, literary tableau, and art-world journalism the book imagines a psycho-geography of Switzerland, from its Alps to its art-filled bunkers. Sensitive to its context, informative and discursive, rather than promotional, the book is rounded off with a survey on the future of biennials in relation to the present-day "fair mania" and a selection of the critic's views on the disparate practices of the four artists. * * With contributions by renowned authors Bice Curiger, Klaus Theweleit, Philip Ursprung, and many more. Designed by Aude Lehmann & Lex Trüb. * * Published with the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern. *