FACES
MOUNTAINS WITH SUBTITLES
ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT FILMS
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
THE ENDLESS SUMMER
FIGHTING
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
VARGTIMMEN
CONTE DE PRINTEMPS
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THIS IS A BOOK OF 10 DRAWINGS OF
MOUNTAINS WITH SUBTITLES

28 PAGES, 8.25 X 5.75" (A5)
SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF 100
FIRST EDITION 2010

AVAILABLE AT HALF LETTER PRESS & BONGOUT

ABOUT THE BOOK

Basing the approach for this series of drawings on the ideas of interplay and chance, I invited a number of artists, curators, designers, musicians and journalists to submit screenshots or photos of mountains in films with subtitles. The ready-made juxtapositions of text and image that I received through e-mail and that I then translated into drawings on paper offer varying degrees of tension between what is said and what is shown. The subtitles range from the prosaic or descriptive to the obscure and metaphysical. From the interplay between text and image arises a complex reciprocal relationship between the ephemeral, intangible nature of language and the relative permanence of the mountain.

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The source images for this series are from L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960), Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006), The Bucket List (Rob Reiner, 2007), Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001), The Silent Star (Kurt Maetzig, 1960), Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950), and Twin Peaks (David Lynch, 1990). This project would not have been possible without the kind assistance of Raffael Doerig, Sebastian Haslauer, Mirak Jamal, Patrick Juchli, Markus Schoenfeld, Christian Walt, and Easton West.
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PAGES 6 AND 7
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PAGES 18 AND 19
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PAGES 8 AND 9
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PAGES 14 AND 15
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PAGES 16 AND 17
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