Exhibition Catalogue

The Swiss artist Franziska Rutishauser focuses on making visible the abstractness of familiar reality. Motifs are natural elements like plants, water and rock. The human being does not appear figuratively in her works, it is rather thematized as a biotic factor. Her media are painting, drawing, photography and installation. The exhibition reeling to real shows the artist's examination of questions about the age of the Anthropocene. In the most recent works of the series Aggregation-Dark light matter (2015-2016), the colour range red, combined with structures derived from the snapshot of flowing water, creates irritation due to ambiguity in relation to the comparison of reality in the viewer's perception. The artist pursued this factor of irritation over many years, from initially subtle to increasingly obvious disturbances in the pictorial recognition of the real environment.
with texts by: Hans-Werner Kalkmann, Margit im Schlaa and Raimar Stange
 
Published by Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e.V. and the
VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst Vienna
ISBN: 978-3-903131-44-6
Size: 28,00 x 21,00 cm
Pages: 124
Illustrations: 79
Hardcover with embossing, bound
German / English
The German National Library lists this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at www.dnb.de.

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This publication provides insight into Franziska Rutishauser's current creative phase. The Swiss artist works with painting, photography, installation and drawing. Rutishauser invites us to take a closer look, analyzes the process of seeing itself and thematizes the abstractness of the objective world. Her painting deals with the magical beauty of the visible and with irritating perception.
The catalogue is completed by contributions from the art historians Dr. Margit Im Schlaa and Michael Nungesser.

Published by WHITECONCEPTS-Gallery, Berlin with
Kerber Verlag Bielefeld 2014
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0057-8
Size: 23,00 × 27,60 cm
Pages: 108
Illustrations: 75
Softcover, bound    
German, (optional English text supplement)

We would like to thank the Burgergemeinde Bern for their friendly support.
The German National Library lists this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data can be found on the Internet at www.dnb.de.

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[...] Mars landscape
 
Can a real pictoriality become tangible, however, when earth is exchanged during a transformation phase in the city of Berlin and this is registered by the artist's eye? In this process, despite all its anchoring in reality, there is simultaneously an extraterrestrial post-colonialism of modernism. However, this is explicitly not about comparing the real situation in Berlin with the findings of planetary research, but above all about the artist's eye. The area in the Wuhlheide is transformed mentally and perceptively into a Martian landscape during the ploughing of the ground. The perception itself is decisive in this process: what is a practical completion of a task for the building activity becomes a possible colonization of the planet Mars for Franziska R.'s photographic eye. This is strange only at first glance in 2012, because at the same time as Franziska R.'s photographs, a new Mars research mission from NASA was underway. [...] 1

1. Excerpt from "Berliner Sandberge 2012" by Anna M. Schafroth

Franziska Rutishauser
Berlin sand mountains | picture series 4
Digital image series
83 colour plates
Edition Carpentier Berlin
With a foreword by Anna M. Schafroth
100 p. ; 100 numbered and signed copies
ISBN 978-3-944637-07-5

We thank Andreas Kern for his kind support.
The German National Library lists this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data can be found on the Internet at www.dnb.de.

out of print

with 20 colour plates and a b/w brochure on works by the Swiss artist.
1st edition 1000 copies, 32 of which as a special edition with original designs for the series "Erinnerungen".
2005
Content:

•     Franziska R. - biographical data and list of exhibitions
•     About me and my paintings Franziska R.
•     Of amazement. Anna Magdalena Schafroth
•     The Miss from Mahé. Pedro Lenz
•     See the cattles big eyes! Pedro Lenz
•     Cloud pictures. This Rutishauser
•     The world is Halma, rules of the game. Franziska R.
•     Halma. Büne Huber

Sabine Dormond, Montreux, for the French translation.

The Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication
in the German National Bibliography; detailed
bibliographical data are available at www.dnb.de.

© 2005 - All rights for image reproductions
with Franziska R. and all rights for the texts with the authors

With the support of the Burgergemeinde Bern

Publisher: Stämpfli Verlag AG, Bern www.buchstaempfli.com
Complete production: Stämpfli AG, publications, Berne
Printed in Switzerland

ISBN 3-7272-1099-0

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[...] Thus astonishment arises at this pronounced will to abstraction within a subtly representational pictoriality, which appears as an artistic counter-world to the provocative, loud sound of ordinary everyday culture.

Anna Magdalena Schafroth