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Ghosts, Brides & other Companions
Elly Strik
2014
HC / 296 pages / 30,5 x 22,5 cm
Published by
AsaMER
Language
ES / EN
Authors
Ben Okri, Manuel Borja-Villel, Carlos Gamerro with Victoria Noorthoorn, Beatriz Preciado, Bart Verschaffel, Jean-Christophe Ammann in conversation with Elly Strik
Design
Elly Strik with Studio Luc Derycke
Print
Cultura, Wetteren
ISBN
978 84 8026 483 9
Price
35.00 euros
Strik’s book is a fluent stream of images and words in a strong connection to each other where the look inside and the outside happens simultaneously. The images continue within a long historic artistic line of visionary artists who probe the tresholds of human essence. Strik’s intense, poetic practice explores the possibilities of metamorphosis and the process of (artistic) creation. In conversation with aspects from El Greco, Goya, Darwin, Freud, Munch, Ensor or Duchamp her approach is archaic in a higly alert way. The viewer will be confronted with energetically-charged apparations transmuted into shapes, portraits and figures on paper, now fixed as definitive states of being. Constantly shifting between monumentality and intimacy, her figures are a visual stimulation that prompt the viewer to rethink the human condition today. The book ties in the exhibition by Elly Strik in Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid.
