Beat Streuli

Fabric of Reality

With his new artist’s book Fabric of Reality, Beat Streuli for the first time lays a trail leading through his oeuvre. Following Public Works (JRP Ringier, 2012), which delivered an overview of Streuli’s installations from 1996–2011, the artist now links projects, photographs, and video stills from the past seven years with early black-and-white works. Arranged in close succession and with frequent superimposition, the works create a visual rhythm that conveys an impression of an oeuvre marked by sober conceptual observation verging on documentary status. Essays on the themes of urbanism and sociology, as well as on media theory and the theory of perception, embed Streuli’s work in a discursive context.

With his new artist’s book Fabric of Reality, Beat Streuli for the first time lays a trail leading through his oeuvre. Following Public Works (JRP Ringier, 2012), which delivered an overview of Streuli’s installations from 1996–2011, the artist now links projects, photographs, and video stills from the past seven years with early black-and-white works. Arranged in close succession and with frequent superimposition, the works create a visual rhythm that conveys an impression of an oeuvre marked by sober conceptual observation verging on documentary status. Essays on the themes of urbanism and sociology, as well as on media theory and the theory of perception, embed Streuli’s work in a discursive context.

With photographs by Beat Streuli

With essays by Nils Röller, Hilde Van Gelder

Design: Integral Lars Müller

20 × 27,5 cm, 8 ¼ × 10 ¾ in

620 pages, 257 illustrations

hardback

2019, 978-3-03778-576-8, English
CHF 40.00

Beat Streuli

Beat Streuli, born in 1957, is a Swiss photographer and visual artist. His works have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. He is known for his street portraiture, in which he documents the daily life on the streets of big cities.