BATIA SUTER:
PARALLEL ENCYCLOPEDIA 1 (REPRINT)
Artist: Batia Suter
Published by
Roma Publications
English
592 pages
22 x 29 cm
Hardcover
ISBN 9789492811981
Price: 300 lei
Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images taken solely from other books. Significant underlying themes expressed in the Amsterdam-based, Swiss artist’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they assume or become charged with new associative values. This is a reprint of Suter’s voluminous book, originally published in 2007 and covering a pictorial plethora of human history, science, philosophy, art, and culture.