Ebook: Transitorisch: Strategien gegen die Vergänglichkeit: Gestaltgebungen des Ephemeren in der Gegenwartskunst von Meret Oppenheim bis Christian Boltanski

TRANSITORINESS finds expression in contemporary art as an essential dynamic of our humanity and our fundamentally transient times. This survey assembles 14 international artists who are engaged in giving shape to the ephemeral and extending its duration. Conceiving existentially underpinned figurations of the evanescent and the TRANSITORY, in which the cycles of life and death and the transcendent energies of empathy, love, and collective participation take effect, they are deeply engaged in their work with the human condition.
The TRANSITORY becomes manifest in: Meret Oppenheim's cloud formations, the time traps of Daniel Spoerri, Maria Fisahn's vitalizations of decay, Marilyn Minter's disruptive representations of glamour, Catherine Bolduc's perceptual castles in the air, Naho Kawabe's existential interplay of light and shadow, Ena Swansea's paintings of an intangible reality, Lorenz Estermann's nomadic constructions between departure and dissolution, Mirko Reisser's self-portraits in transformation, Volker Lang's spaces of recollection, Luis Camnitzer's multiply fractured reflections, Teresa Margolles's elegies of former existence, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's memento mori of love, and in Christian Boltanski's preservation of life's fleeting traces.