Beschreibung
500,000 slides from a picture archive, rubble from a demolished town hall, and a shredder from Hessens tax offices: Artist Max Brück collects granular slivers of our society and turns them into installations and objects. His works, which are often site-specific, draw on materials that are laden with memories, using technical processes to transform them. In doing so, he deals with questions of memory, situatedness, belonging, and the disappearance of the familiar environments we live in. The artists book Granulate brings together groups of works from recent years. The chapters are set up as containers for rocks, images, paper, textiles, dust, etc. Each is an assemblage of works dedicated to one of these materials. The book is an act of decomposition, with the containers being classified along a continuum from solid and stable through to dissolution. Each container is accompanied by a text from an expert offering concrete insights and consciously arguing from positions outside of artistic processes. Max Brück (b. 1991 in Schotten) lives and works as an artist in Gießen. He has taught at the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design and is currently a professor of sculpture and spatial concepts at HKS Ottersberg.
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