Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 24 Seiten, GEH, Format (B × H): 212 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 134 g
Reprint Edition
Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 24 Seiten, GEH, Format (B × H): 212 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 134 g
ISBN: 978-3-945155-00-4
Verlag: edition Galerie Vevais
Vevais Werkdruck
Edited by Jock Sturges, Prof. John Wood, Steven Brown and Alexander Scholz.
Vevais Werkdruck is a new series of books from Galerie Vevais, published by Eric Langer and Alexander Scholz, and edited by Jock Sturges, Prof John Wood, Steven Brown and Alexander Scholz. This fascinating library which offers an overview of developments in contemporary photography; it features familiar names and newcomers. The original volumes employed sophisticated printing methods ; each hardback volume is bound by hand with Japanese binding, signed and numbered by the artist, and published in an edition of 300 copies.The books are now being made available as inexpensive booklets, so that art lovers have the opportunity to collect all Werkdruck books for a reasonable price.
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Jacqueline Roberts ~ A Rare Surprise
I am possessed of and by a seemingly limitless hunger for new art. I scurry around museums,
galleries, book stores and, most recently, the internet in a perpetual quest for
the unexpected perspective, for wisdom in new wave lengths in photographic art. The
digital age is of course fecund with altered work but all too often its differences embrace
cleverness or mere novelty which strike me, personally, as water too shallow to
be considered part of the deeper seas of lasting art. But once in a while, I am surprised.
I first saw Jacqueline Roberts’ work about six years ago on a vast and vastly mediocre
photography website which I was showing to a friend as an illustration of the manifest
ills of the digital age. But when I came across her work purely by accident, it stopped
me dead as it in no way conformed to the dimensions of my dyspeptic complaint. The
children depicted were age two or three and thus the work did not entirely escape the
sentimentality with which we observe the very young and innocent. But the images
were so beautifully made and composed that I was smitten on the instant. I scribbled a
quick e-mail of interest and congratulations to Jacqueline to which she replied politely.
And, for four years, that was that.
Then about two years ago our paths crossed again and I was reintroduced to an opus
whose scale and ambition had grown dramatically. References to art and culture
abounded, drawn on the evolving surfaces of Jacqueline’s startlingly photogenic triplets.
Every single image was at once rich in reference while being at the same time a
stunning portrait of a modern child. From an image steeped in irony of her daughter,
Malen, seemingly dressed for church holding a prayer book and rosary–which in
fact are bells and a Nintendo computer game–to the lovely reverence to the Spanish
painter, Diego Velázquez–Malen in Disney dress dropped into the painted ground of
Velázquez’s “Las Meninas”–the work is fiercely intelligent and visually arresting.
And what is still more exciting is that Jacqueline is as of yet young in this work. Prolific
to a rare degree, her aesthetic seems to coruscate and refine minute by minute. Thus
you should all understand that the engaging surprise of this, her very first book, is
most importantly understood as a promise of great weight–a promise of much more
to come. Spanish, raised in Paris, living in Germany with a Welsh husband who works
across the river in Luxembourg, Jacqueline is a true citizen of modern Europe. The fact
that she speaks more languages than I can count is finally no surprise. She has much to say. I for one have become and will remain an ardent listener.
Jock Sturges / Seattle 2012
