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Stephan Kaluza & Dieter Nuhr – Transit

Edition Cantz 2020 ISBN 9783947563869 Acqn 20598
Hb 24x29cm 160pp col ills £35.95

At first glance, the fine art photographer, painter, and writer Stephan Kaluza's photorealist
paintings might be still lifes, portraits of pristine nature. Yet they actually show battlefields and
other scenes of past horrors. The idyll in his pictures is not just equivocal, it positively appeals to
our vigilance to resist the impression of profound peace. The same ambiguity lies at the heart of
the photographs of Dieter Nuhr. Nuhr, who is also widely known as a comedian, has contributed
pictures that are calculated compositions rather than documentary shots, carefully focused
renditions of seemingly serendipitous discoveries from his travels in Nepal, Bolivia, India, and
Sudan. In their timelessness, Nuhr's photographs are akin to the locales in Kaluza's works, which,
disburdened of the heavy weight of their histories, reemerge as straightforward natural
landscapes. The lavishly illustrated two-volume edition Transit presents the fruits of a
collaboration between two artists united by their shared preoccupation with the dialectic of
ephemerality and permanence.

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Adrian Schiess - The Song Element

Edition Cantz 2020 ISBN 9783947563777 Acqn 30599
Pb 25x34cm 360pp col ills £40.95

Smoothly painted panels laid out on the floor have earned Adrian Schiess international renown.
Roundly rejecting the traditional forms of painting, the artist has developed a singular oeuvre,
gradually effacing all traces of manual craftsmanship. His objects, which may be placed in a room
as desired, are conceived as platforms of creative engagement with the appearance and
disappearance of painting. Schiess's large-format industrial panels, which are executed in spray
paint by specialized car varnishers, have become integral components of buildings by world-
famous architects including Norman Foster and Herzog & de Meuron. For this book, Schiess has
compiled spectacular series of photographs and extensive conversations with the art historian
Ulrich Loock that probe the peculiar quality of his work: hybrid and fluctuating and yet always
utterly distinctive. It is the first publication to put the focus on this essential aspect of his output,
documenting works created between 1993 and 2018.

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Ute Bartel – mansionaticum

Edition Cantz 2020 ISBN 9783947563746 Acqn 30600
Hb 17x24cm 160pp col ills £21.50

In her works, Ute Bartel deals with everyday circumstances, the "mansionaticum." A term which
at first glance seems epochal, but etymologically simply means "belonging to the household." In a
concrete confrontation with particular places and situations, she is interested in things in and of
themselves, in their formal characteristics, such as their forms, colours, and structures. The
artist's work is characterized by her idiosyncratic approach to the multiple creative possibilities of
photography. Using analogue and digital techniques, she creates collages, objects, and works
that project into the respective space, in which materials such as waxed tablecloths, plastic bags,
or straws are also used. This generously illustrated monograph presents structures of familiar and
yet unknown realities marked by highly pronounced forms and bold colours and provides
comprehensive insight into one of the focal points of Ute Bartel's oeuvre.

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