Beat Streuli, Public Works 1996–2011

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Swiss artist Beat Streuli (*1957) takes the urban environment and its inhabitants as the central motif of his work. His photographs are neither documentary nor conceptual: rather they lead us to a form of aesthetics that one could describe as the „glamour of the usual.“ * * This monograph is a survey of his oeuvre of the last 15 years, which includes billboards and large-scale window installations on the facades of public buildings, and a selection of his installations of slide and video projections. Streuli by Streuli: an extensive image sequence mostly taken by the artist himself documents Streuli’s rejection of the classic museum exhibition context. Instead he takes the photographs back to their place of origin—public space. * * With newly commissioned texts by Raymond Bellour, Roberta Valtorta, and Jonathan Watkins. * * Published with the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. *