Over the past decade, artist Lisa Oppenheim has steadily developed a unique body of work exploring the usage of (historical) imagery. Balanced between appropriation and reconstruction, her work relies on substitutions applied to photographic and filmic records through which the historical and the present are transmitted and constituted through a language of today. One could define her work as an archaeology of time and visual culture. By exposing, or even reexposing, archival material, Oppenheim bridges the past and the present by introducing new meaning to these historical images, often resulting in film and photographic projects.
For this book we have done high quality lithographic imaging, which we are really proud of. The colors are beautiful come out of the paper, you can feel the deep impression of the artworks of Lisa Oppenheim.
Lisa Oppenheim: Works 2003 – 2013
Published by Sternberg Press, Grazer Kunstverein, Kunstverein in Hamburg and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Bettina Steinbruegge and Florence Derieux
Designed by Marc Hollenstein
192 pages full color - EUR 30,-
You can order it through us: office@grazerkunstverein.org or
via Sternberg Press: http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1495&bookId=389&l=en