
Gabi Blum
The Rise and The Fall (of the Great)
Kerber Verlag
Will be published approx. on 17. July 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-3-7356-1092-8 (ISBN)
Description
Gabi Blum creates walk-in, room-filling installations that translate images from our collective pop-culture memory into real, three-dimensional scenes. Her location and context-specific work questions the creation of icons and myth-making, as well as the forms of staging of highbrow and popular culture. Figures-personified by herself, by others or by the visitors-act within her evocative spaces, blurring the borders between reality and fiction. Blum uses simple materials to reveal the artistic process, transforming the familiar into something new. The subject matter of her stagings include visibility, power, and the narrative of heroism. The monograph "The Rise and the Fall (of the Great)" looks back on fifteen years of creative work, placing it in an art historical and societal context, and illuminates the challenges of artistic existence beyond commercial structures.
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Language
English
German
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Illustrations
474
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 200 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-7356-1092-8 (9783735610928)
Schweitzer Classification