Deutsche Version
Preview 2025
Tuesday June 24 at 7pm
Artists Talk with Herbert Stattler (Berlin) about his most recent book:
Herbert Stattler: Lace Ware. An Album 1900 – 1954 (2025). With texts by Martin Bauer
Herbert Stattler explores a history with 38 drawings encompassing other and further stories. It revolves around the biography of a Stuttgart company that commissioned and distributed lace are. Stattler's drawings are based on the company’s archives, offering a kaleidoscope of fragments of time, revealing simultaneously textile, technical, cultural, and consumer history. Since the plots concerns the history of handwork, Stattler's series not only addresses their techniques but also the working conditions of female home-based labor. This extends the album into the realm of social and economic history in the first half of the 20th century: World War I, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazis, and World War II. However, lace ware production is not limited to purely material and historical dimensions. Its patterns echo significant aspects of both older and more recent art history. We see the evolution of ornament—from its rise in the Renaissance, its devaluation as mere decoration, even a »crime« according to Adolf Loos, to its emancipation as an aesthetic practice of autonomous form finding.
The book is published by Spector Verlag. We also present the special edition: the book is supplemented by an original drawing and presented in a cassette
Artists Talk with Herbert Stattler (Berlin) about his most recent book:
Herbert Stattler: Lace Ware. An Album 1900 – 1954 (2025). With texts by Martin Bauer
Herbert Stattler explores a history with 38 drawings encompassing other and further stories. It revolves around the biography of a Stuttgart company that commissioned and distributed lace are. Stattler's drawings are based on the company’s archives, offering a kaleidoscope of fragments of time, revealing simultaneously textile, technical, cultural, and consumer history. Since the plots concerns the history of handwork, Stattler's series not only addresses their techniques but also the working conditions of female home-based labor. This extends the album into the realm of social and economic history in the first half of the 20th century: World War I, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazis, and World War II. However, lace ware production is not limited to purely material and historical dimensions. Its patterns echo significant aspects of both older and more recent art history. We see the evolution of ornament—from its rise in the Renaissance, its devaluation as mere decoration, even a »crime« according to Adolf Loos, to its emancipation as an aesthetic practice of autonomous form finding.
The book is published by Spector Verlag. We also present the special edition: the book is supplemented by an original drawing and presented in a cassette
June 3 – June 27
Botanical Boundaries –
Artists' books that relate to plants and botany in very different ways by Anja Harms, Sian Bowen, Kaethe Wenzel, Stefan Gunnesch, Odine Lang and Jessica Greenfield et. al.
Stefan Gunnesch´ formally complex and sensual examination of Baudelaire's “Flowers of Evil” as well as his dialogue with Hilma af Klint and her plant mythology in her notebooks.
Sian Bowen and her research based answer on “Hortus Malabaricus”.
Anja Harms book about and around the birch tree
Kaethe Wenzel and her UrbanInkLab, where she was working on her UrbanInkBook, painted and printed with inks derived from microlocal weeds.
Botanical Boundaries –
Artists' books that relate to plants and botany in very different ways by Anja Harms, Sian Bowen, Kaethe Wenzel, Stefan Gunnesch, Odine Lang and Jessica Greenfield et. al.
Stefan Gunnesch´ formally complex and sensual examination of Baudelaire's “Flowers of Evil” as well as his dialogue with Hilma af Klint and her plant mythology in her notebooks.
Sian Bowen and her research based answer on “Hortus Malabaricus”.
Anja Harms book about and around the birch tree
Kaethe Wenzel and her UrbanInkLab, where she was working on her UrbanInkBook, painted and printed with inks derived from microlocal weeds.
Thursday, September 4 at 7pm
Botanical Boundaries - to be continued.
With bookart by Katya Dimova, Till Verclas, Regina Anzensberger, Uwe Klos and more
Botanical Boundaries - to be continued.
With bookart by Katya Dimova, Till Verclas, Regina Anzensberger, Uwe Klos and more
Opening on Thursday, October 2nd at 7 pm.
Ken Campbell: „Headlong:Headstrong - A Life in Print“
Artist's books by the outstanding British book artist Ken Campbell, who passed away in 2022
Ken Campbell: „Headlong:Headstrong - A Life in Print“
Artist's books by the outstanding British book artist Ken Campbell, who passed away in 2022
Galerie DRUCK & BUCH
Susanne Padberg
Berggasse 21/2
A - 1090 Wien
Susanne Padberg
Berggasse 21/2
A - 1090 Wien