This volume presents art with light in all its facets – using mirrors, black light, neon tubes, and bottles, Brigitte Kowanz creates objects and spatial artworks in which she showcases light. "What is light?" is the central question of her oeuvre. "Light is what you see," is the artist's answer.

Light helps us see; it makes everything visible, yet remains invisible itself. Brigitte Kowanz explores this paradox in her art of light. This volume offers a retrospective of the work of the artist, who died in 2022. In addition to her central works, it presents iconic works in which she addressed current topics such as digitalization and new communication media in an information society as early as the 1980s.
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This volume presents art with light in all its facets – using mirrors, black light, neon tubes, and bottles, Brigitte Kowanz creates objects and spatial artworks in which she showcases light. "What is light?" is the central question of her oeuvre. "Light is what you see," is the artist's answer.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783777446561
Publisert
2026-01-08
Utgiver
Hirmer Verlag
Vekt
1480 gr
Høyde
300 mm
Bredde
220 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Biografisk notat

Ralph Gleis was director of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin and curator of numerous exhibitions on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2025 he is General Director of the Albertina in Vienna.
Angela Stief has been the Head Curator for Contemporary art at the Albertina Museum, Vienna since 2020, and Director of the Albertina Modern since 2021.