Concret Star
Isa Melsheimer
2/5 series
Captures éditions
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Housed in a vanilla envelope with other publications from the 2/5 series (2020–2022)
420 x 594 mm
2021
ISBN 9782491549138
As part of her investigations of concrete architecture, Isa Melsheimer (born in Neuss, 1968) invested in a place located in Märkische Viertel, a former social housing district of Berlin (1960’s-70’s). For the recto, an entire mise en scène was conceived for a photographic shot of her own character in front of artist Erich Reischke’s sculpture (currently in the process of revegetation) for which she designed clothes and a mask. A gouache of the object alone is slipped around and onto the verso. Folded into A4.
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About the Artist
Born in 1968 in Neuss, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. Isa Melsheimer studied at the Hochschule der Künste (School of the Arts) Berlin 1991–1997 in Georg Baselitz’s master class. She has received several grants, including from the Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems; Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa; Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Perugia; Villa Aurora, Los Angeles; Goethe Institute, Lisbon; and Villa Massimo, Rome. Melsheimer received the Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn in 2008, and the Marianne Werefkin Prize in 2015. Isa Melsheimer explores urban living spaces and the conditions for their design and change. She is as much interested in the formal vocabulary of modern architecture as she is in urban planning scenarios and the dynamics of social tension. Responding to the specific sites of her exhibitions, Melsheimer creates complex spatial installations with surprising leaps in scale, changes of perspective and material contrasts. Along with sculptures in concrete, glass, or ceramic, her model-like test set-ups can also include embroidered curtains, arrangements of collected objects, or ensembles of living plants. The sculptural work is accompanied by gouaches in which quotations from art, architecture, design, and pop culture overlap and interfuse.
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About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
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