Elias Wessel: Aesthetics of Conflict (Wessel Elias)(Pevná vazba)

- First comprehensive monograph on the artist's oeuvre- Showcases works from the years 2017-2021- Art, artistic photography, digitalization and its impact on art and societyIn an age of fast-changing technologies, offering numerous ways of generating images, Elias Wessel challenges the conventional definition of a painting: he creates his "paintings" without resorting to traditional painting techniques and eschews classical genres. The artist's abstract paintings - which in many ways show connections to painterly practices - are in fact made up of photographs and digital material. Wessel, for example, takes photos of smartphone displays to produce monumental abstract compositions from the fingerprints left behind on them. He also documents his scrolling behavior on social media platforms by using long-time exposure to superimpose accessed
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