Georg Aerni - Silent Transition: New Works

Georg Aerni's new photographs focus on transformation processes, such as plastic greenhouses, residential houses, olive trees, creepers, and rock faces. He combines art and documentation to observe the signs of change and asks questions about our handling of natural resources, social backgrounds, and the regenerative force of nature. The book showcases 166 beautiful color and black-and-white plates with texts by Peter Pfrunder and Nadine Olonetzky and an essay by Sabine von Fischer.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2022
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

Transformation processes are the focus of Georg Aernis new photographs, which showcase plastic greenhouses that have annexed whole swathes of land for agricultural mass production, residential houses that have been built overnight on the city outskirts without construction machines and literally noiselessly. He also points his lens at olive trees that have grown over centuries into figures full of character, creepers that conquer leftover spaces between high-rises and motorways, and mighty rock faces that are being gnawed by erosion. With the merging of art and documentation that is typical of Aernis work, Georg Aerni—Silent Transition makes the signs of change the object of a contemplative observation and at the same time asks challenging questions: about our handling of natural resources, about the social backgrounds to cities growing out of control, and about the regenerative force of nature.

A decade after Aernis first monograph, Sites & Signs, this new book showcases the artists ongoing continuation of his photographic work through numerous individual images as well as new series. 166 beautiful colour and black-and-white plates are introduced through texts by Peter Pfrunder and Nadine Olonetzky and commented on with an essay by Sabine von Fischer. Text in English and German.

Weight: 1172g
Dimension: 246 x 343 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783039420742