Daniele Buetti - Hardcover

Doswald, Christoph; Mangion, Eric; Maurer, Simone; Strauss, Dorothea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775712933 ISBN 13: 9783775712934

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2003

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Synopsis:

Daniele Buetti is one of the artists who has explored the topic of lifestyle and media codes. The artist, born in Switzerland in 1955, has become known to a wider audience by his working over of fashion advertisements, the re-formulation of fair appearances embodied by super models like Claudia and Naomi, Giselle and Kate: "Never enough of you" is what he scrawled onto the bodies in a martial-looking typography, bringing the phantasmatic effect of mass communications precisely to a point. Or the models suffer a transfiguration to "Nike", the trademarks of the products they advertise visible as growth-like identifications on their skin. Due to such forceful subjects, Buetti has been called the "new king of pop" - a designation much too short-sighted in the light of Buetti's extensive oeuvre, an oeuvre which explores the topic of our goods and consumption-happy society in a much larger context. This publication reveals the performance-like beginnings, provides an overview over the most important installations, photograph panels, illuminated boxes and videos and traces the origins of the "winged cross", Buetti's trademark from the late eighties.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 3775712933
• ISBN 13: 9783775712934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Doswald Christoph