Beautiful Disasters
German
9783954765560
240 pages
Distanz Verlag Gmbh Llc
Overview
The works of Conny Maier (lives and works in Berlin and Baleal) reflect on polarities
like power and submission, equilibrium and instability, the human and
the non-human. Recently awarded the Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year
(2021), Maier is one of
the foremost painters of her generation. As the curator and art
historian Britta Färber
writes, "Maier's work speaks of the expulsion from paradise, of the loss
of a primordial
state, of a great, barely endurable malaise in the prevailing culture."
Through depicting malleable figures in states of extreme emotion and
struggle, Maier's works take an
unflinching look at the final throes of the Anthropocene, asking not
only what systems
should come to an end but what our future might look like. The monograph Beautiful Disasters shows for the first time a cross-section of Maier's works. With essays by Martin Herbert, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, and Marlene A. Schenk.
Author Bio
The works of Conny Maier (lives and works in Berlin and Baleal) reflect on polarities
like power and submission, equilibrium and instability, the human and
the non-human. Recently awarded the Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year
(2021), Maier is one of
the foremost painters of her generation. As the curator and art
historian Britta Färber
writes, "Maier's work speaks of the expulsion from paradise, of the loss
of a primordial
state, of a great, barely endurable malaise in the prevailing culture."
Through depicting malleable figures in states of extreme emotion and
struggle, Maier's works take an
unflinching look at the final throes of the Anthropocene, asking not
only what systems
should come to an end but what our future might look like.
