Mauren Brodbeck

Oeuvres Photographiques/Photographic Works 2004/2014

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book retraces the last ten years in the career of Mauren Brodbeck, an artist from Geneve who, with her work, overrides the borders between art genres, creating multilayered images able to call the limits between real and virtual into question. Photography, collage, graphics are only a few of the instruments she uses to undermine our perceptive frames of mind. The use of color applied to elements of the urban landscape as buildings, car parks, warehouses, hides them while, at the same time, makes them monumental. Equally monumental are the colored objects, similar to oversized sculptures, the artist includes within her city views. The dialogue between presence and absence can be found in the processing of the human figure, where the color transforms the bodies into silhouettes, in order to underline the passage from one state of the form to another. Mauren Brodbeck was born in Geneva in 1974. She was first trained in «Visual Arts» (painting and drawing). She then worked and studied in the fields of cinematography as film director and producer of shorts films, documentaries and ads for which she won three prizes and participated to several festivals. Mauren graduated in photography and design from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and in cinematographic production from the Vancouver Film School. She currently works as a photographer and is represented by several galleries in Switzerland, France and Germany. Her initial training in painting and drawing enables Mauren to give an eclectic dimension to her work, the resulting projects have a pictorial and sculptural vision and composition. She wrote: ¿My approach is based on appropriation, reconstruction and the simplification of reality. I work in parallel with photography and video by using different techniques such as collage, animation, superposition, erasing, color application and time stretch. It is by lingering my glance on an element that can seem trivial at first, that I create and reconstitute an image or a video. The ordinary is disconcerting, all my works initiate from that angle. In my various series of work, video or photographic, I always investigate the way we perceive and create our reality and use memory to reconstruct it. They are essays on identity through the man-made creations, such as landscape, buildings, cinema and art.¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DRAGO / Drago
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 207mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1132g
• ISBN-13: 9788898565078
• ISBN-10: 8898565070
• Artikelnr.: 41370695

Autorenporträt

Born in Geneva in 1974, Mauren Brodbeck has, since her youngest years, been delivering an eclectic and multicoloured body of work that calls into question ideas around "being" vs "appearing to be", working in a realm of expressive forms sublimated by colour. At the tender age of 12 the artist took her first steps into the fascinating world of photography quickly discovering a passion for all and any of the arts: film, photography, screenplays, design, art directing, singing and composing, dance, writing, magic, fashion. With her heightened curiosity, these forms of expression combine to allow Mauren to explore the world and achieve her quest to define the place of humans in contemporary society and in relation to each other. At the heart of her work, certain recurring themes come and go, each a different take on the subject of identity: adolescence, self-portraits, architecture and urban landscapes. Mauren first trained in Visual Arts (painting and drawing) and then went on to work and study in the fields of cinematography, as a film director and producer of shorts films, documentaries and advertisements for which she won three prizes and participated in several festivals. Mauren graduated in photography and design from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and in cinematographic production from the Vancouver Film School. She currently works as a photographer and is represented by several galleries in Switzerland, France and Germany. Her initial training in painting and drawing enables Mauren to give an eclectic dimension to her work, the resulting projects have a pictorial and sculptural vision and composition. During course of a cosmopolitan trajectory that has opened doors for her at home and everywhere, the Swiss artist has fashioned a colourful and fascinating body of work that stands out from the rest through its sweetened pop colours, its radical tone and intensely bold side. She wrote: "My approach is based on appropriation, reconstruction and the simplification of reality. I work in parallel with photography and video by using different techniques such as collage, animation, superposition, erasing, colour application and time stretch. It is by lingering my glance on an element that can seem trivial at first, that I create and reconstitute an image or a video. The ordinary is disconcerting, all my works initiate from that angle. In my various series of work, video or photographic, I always investigate the way we perceive and create our reality and use memory to reconstruct it. They are essays on identity through the man-made creations, such as landscape, buildings, cinema and art." She wrote: "My approach is based on appropriation, reconstruction and the simplification of reality. I work in parallel with photography and video by using different techniques such as collage, animation, superposition, erasing, color application and time stretch. It is by lingering my glance on an element that can seem trivial at first, that I create and reconstitute an image or a video. The ordinary is disconcerting, all my works initiate from that angle. In my various series of work, video or photographic, I always investigate the way we perceive and create our reality and use memory to reconstruct it. They are essays on identity through the man-made creations, such as landscape, buildings, cinema and art."