Awarded the renowned Gabriele Münter Prize 2017
Beate Passow’s incomparable textile art
Insightful works with topical political reference
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Beate Passow
Monkey Business
In her series of images “Monkey Business” the artist Beate Passow portrays a mysterious fairy-tale world of political dimensions. The black and white images, which upon closer observation turn out to be sophisticated tapestries, question the ruling systems, economic structures, and political movements of contemporary Europe
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A Barbary macaque sits on a martial gun barrel in Gibraltar; a powerful bear mounts a bull; a skeleton-like figure strides over destroyed refugee boats on Lampedusa. The strange figures that inhabit “Monkey Business” narrate a penetrating mythology of the 21st century. In her narrative approach Passow subverts the established tapestry tradition, not praising rulers and heroes, but directing criticism – at today’s Europe. Once celebrated as the stronghold of democracy and humanism, it is today marked by a military defensive stance at its borders, by a thoroughly corrupt capitalism, and by increasingly brazen Neo-Nazi movements.
press commentaries
Ein informativer und reich bebilderter Katalog.
Augsburger Allgemeine
Details
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English-German edition
64 pages, 32 colour illustrations
21 x 27 cm, hardcover
64 pages, 32 colour illustrations
21 x 27 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3034-8
Keywords
Textile, contemporary art, Augsburg
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