
Venus, Vesuv
- Publisher
- Edition Taube
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-3-945900-85-7
- Specifications
- Softcover with 28 loose sheets
21 × 31 cm
Offset print on transparent paper
English / German
An archive booklet on transparent paper showing the research of Saskia Groneberg for her book Vesuv, Venus. Vulcan and Venus, the ugliest god and the most beautiful of the goddesses, were not only a couple in ancient mythology; here they meet in the form of the Venus Medici and Vesuvius. Historical photographs, engravings and sculptures are superimposed on loose sheets of transparent paper, so that the projection surfaces for beauty and elemental force, man and woman, are quoted, staged and deconstructed, and the superimpositions create new visual moments and cross-references.