Stephan Huber

Gran Paradiso

Beauty, terror, grandeur, awe – the mountain world has always fascinated people. Stephan Huber climbs the snow-covered summits in miniature. In his sculptures he imitates the relief of the mountains and creates object-like works with a theatrical flair. This comprehensive volume reproduces the Alpine cosmos in the powerful images which have been the focus of Huber’s work for more than four decades.

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You will find Stephan Huber’s "Mountains" everywhere: in museums like the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn and the Messner Mountain Museum, and also as large-scale installations in the public space. His monumental contribution for the Biennale 1999 in Venice received international recognition. In addition to the famous snow-white sculptures of mountain peaks, the book also assembles early book objects, fictional expeditions, multiples and views of exhibitions. Essays and an extensive conversation with Reinhold Messner about the inner and outer mountain worlds round out the volume.

press commentaries

Ein prachtvoller Bildband. // A magnificent illustrated book.

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Der Band bietet nicht nur eine eindrucksvolle Sicht auf das umfangreiche Schaffen Stephan Hubers und schildert dessen Bezug zum alpinen Raum, er ist auch ein herausragendes Dokument mit den Skulpturen Hubers zur faszinierenden Bergwelt der Alpen. // This volume not only offers an impressive view of Stephan Huber's extensive oeuvre and describes his relationship to the Alpine region, it is also an outstanding document with Huber's sculptures on the fascinating mountain world of the Alps.

Bücherrundschau

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Ed. Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Stephan Huber

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Texts by S. Berg, U. Demeter, P. Giloy-Hirtz

With a conversation between Stephan Huber and Reinhold Messner

Text: English / German
254 pages, 229 colour illustrations
24.5 x 30.5 cm, 9 1/2 x 12 in., hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-7774-4234-1