Kienbaum Artists' Books 2017, edited by Jochen Kienbaum
5 poems (German) by Klaus Merz
68 p., loosely assembled and colour-printed transparent papers
Format 19.5 x 14.75 cm, held together with knotted cord in the fold, inserted in a slip lid cardboard box with printed title label and hole punching
48,00 €
For Beat Zoderer, his work is a reaction to set pieces of classical works by Max Bill, for example, but also to found everyday forms or everyday objects. Although this precisely planned artist's edition for Jochen Kienbaum continues the constructivist heritage in which he certainly locates himself, it also explodes it through its ambivalence in terms of content and aesthetics. In contrast to classical modernism, Beat Zoderer's work is not based on a historical-philosophical premise, but rather moves between the everyday world and art with his art-critical approach, thus connecting to the ironic ideas of postmodernism. The most recent series of pentagons, which are offset and blended into one another, corresponds with one of the accompanying poems by Klaus Merz, which can also be read as a motto for Beat Zoderer's (meaningful) work on modernism: "There is a voice / that I recognise / even before it / calls me."
