Matthias Herrmann: Textpieces 1996-1998

Matthias Herrmann
Textpieces 1996-1998
Publisher: Edition Stemmle (March 1, 1999)
142 pages
Hardcover
21 x 17 cm
ISBN-10: 3908161916
ISBN-13: 978-3908161912
 
In the textpieces the artist’s body becomes the prop to illustrate a text, or to appear to illustre a text, or to pose in the simulation of illustrating a text, any text, any text that strikes his fancy, so that all texts become sullied, as it were, or penetrated – as an odour penetrates a carpet – with the possibility of being illustrated by these vulgar gestures and this profane body : all texts are sound bites waiting to be dirtied by these infantile, appealling and and erotic tableaux, waiting to be transformed into the subvocal accompaniment to a slapstick schtick, the passion of St.Herrmann, he who is overcome by a drunk and bumbling libido.