Leta Peer: To Inhabit a Place - Hardcover

Reseña del editor

Leta Peer's melancholic, strangely bewitching pictures remind us of the paintings of the romantics, of their assumed harmonization of nature with humans. Yet they confront us with exploitation and aestheticism of nature.

The term "disturbing beauty"--no matter how inflationary it has been used in other contexts--is perhaps the most fitting description of this complex work.

Biografía del autor

Leta Peer, born 1964 in Switzerland, studied art and painting at the Schule fur Gestaltung in Basel. After a longer period abroad in Asia, in the United States and Canada she started working as a visiting professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts Antwerpen, Belgium, in 2002. Thomas Elsen is the director of the Art Collections Augsburg (Stadtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg), Germany.