FRANZ KAPFER
Franz Kapfer Festspiele
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition FRANZ KAPFER (8. 2. - 16. 4. 2006) in the Salzburger Kunstverein
44 pages, 31 illustrations
in B/W, cover in colour, German / English, 21 x 27 cm, paperback
Text byHemma Schmutz
Franz Kapfer's Festspiele
(Festivals) renders this sport or the drama of love in new or old pictures.
Except for the work Cinecittà 2004, all the photographs were taken
in 1991 while Franz Kapfer was working for the Salzburg Festival. Kapfer
approaches sculpture via borrowing and imitation. His own body is sculpturally
reshaped, his alter ego operates with sculptural settings and enters into
interaction with the stone images of the fountain on Kapitelplatz square,
the monument to Empress Elisabeth and St. Sebastian's Cemetery. Neptune,
Sissi, death - the identification of the artist, the woman, ephemerality.
Sculpture remains the ersatz object to which Kapfer exposes himself, lays
himself open, as if he found peace there.
In Rome, in Cinecittà - the world of the backdrop - the Salzburg
stage of the world will be performed once more on the stage of the reconstruction
of the Fontana di Trevi.
2006
ISBN: 3-85160-080-0
ISBN 13: 978-3-85160-080-3
€ 16,00 [A]
€ 15,60 [D]