Accompanying book, Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, edited by Markus Heinzelmann
264 pp. with 174 illustrations in duotone and in colour
Format 32 x 30 cm, cloth binding embossed on title and spine, colour-covered slipcase, each copy numbered (1-1,000)
298,00 €
It is nothing less than heralding an epoch-making artistic work, one of the great works, a series that later generations will describe as a landmark in the 21st century, because it is not only at the height of its art, but also at the height of its time. Michael Schmidt has been working on this series for many years, travelling all over Europe to collect these views, which will leave no viewer untouched. The artist is by no means interested in the sensations, the shots and shocks of the subject, but rather in his own balanced composition, depiction and sequence of images of a work whose subject moves many people: food. And that means production under industrial conditions. Anyone who has leafed through this haunting portrait of the basis of our existence will recognise that Michael Schmidt is able to show our world with empathy, even in foodstuffs that are separated from their function.
Exhibitions:
Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 3/3 - 13/5/2012
Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck, 15/6 - 26/8/2012
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 12/1 - 1/4/2013
