Neuware -This volume presents art with light in all its facets - using mirrors, black light, neon tubes, and bottles, Brigitte Kowanz creates objects and spatial artworks in which she showcases light. 'What is light ' is the central question of her oeuvre. 'Light is what you see,' is the artist's answer.Light helps us see; it makes everything visible, yet remains invisible itself. Brigitte Kowanz explores this paradox in her art of light. This volume offers a retrospective of the work of the artist, who died in 2022. In addition to her central works, it presents iconic works in which she addressed current topics such as digitalization and new communication media in an information society as early as the 1980s.Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Bayerstr. 57-59, 80335 M�nchen 240 pp. Englisch.

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Title: Brigitte Kowanz - Light is what we see
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag Gmbh Jan 2026
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3777446564
ISBN 13: 9783777446561
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 303 millimeters width by 226 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
Weight: 1482 grams

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Presents the art of light in all its facets from artist Brigitte Kowanz.

"What is light?" is the central question of Brigitte Kowanz's oeuvre. "Light is what we see" is her answer. It makes everything visible, yet remains invisible itself. Kowanz engages with this paradox in her light-based art. Using materials such as mirrors, black light, neon tubes, and glass bottles, Kowanz created objects and spatial artworks in which she staged light. This volume offers a retrospective experience of her oeuvre: alongside the central works, it includes iconic pieces showing that, even in the 1980s, she was engaging with topics that are current today, such as digitalization and new communication media in an information society.

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Ralph Gleis is general director of the Albertina and curator of numerous exhibitions of art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Angela Stief is chief curator for contemporary art since 1945 at the Albertina and director of the Albertina modern.

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