Paul Pfeiffer - Hardcover

Foster, Hal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775731520 ISBN 13: 9783775731522

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2011

Synopsis

The acclaimed video and sound installations, sculptures and photographs of Hawaiian-born American artist Paul Pfeiffer (born 1966) deal with the idea of an "afterglow" of mass-media images that are rooted in the collective memory of a globalized media society, and that can be deconstructed with the aid of some heavy editing. Pfeiffer digitally manipulates found media footage, relentlessly cutting, retouching, duplicating and layering the material with the aim of freeing the viewer to experience its ideologically loaded cultural constructedness. In the 1999 video "Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon)," for example, basketball star Larry Johnson's whoop of victory is looped into a weirdly unnatural expression of terror (or death, as the title suggests). This volume surveys Pfeiffer's works of the past 15 years, with abundant color reproductions.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu in 1966. His work was recently presented in solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland; as well as in important group exhibitions such as the 49th Venice Biennale; The Americans at the Barbican Centre, London; and Casino 2001 in Ghent, Belgium. Pfeiffer was also featured in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, where he received the first Bucksbaum Award as the most promising artist in the exhibition. He lives and works in New York City

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3775731520
• ISBN 13: 9783775731522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Goetz Ingvild, Urbaschek Stephan