Kathrin Sonntag, Gabriele Münter, The Travelling Eye

The Travelling Eye

Kathrin Sonntag, Gabriele Münter

Publisher
Spector Books
Year
2024
ISBN
978-3-95905-882-7
Specifications
Thread-sewn softcover with flaps
15 x 24 cm
120 pages
41 b/w and 45 colour images
Text by Christina Irrgang, Kathrin Sonntag, Kathleen Rahn, Ute Stuffer
Design by Pascal Storz
Edited by Marta Herford, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
Text in English, German

In this publication, contemporary artist Kathrin Sonntag embarks, after an interval of more than 100 years, on a journey through the lesser-known photographic oeuvre of the expressionist Gabriele Münter. On the book’s double-page spreads, Sonntag juxtaposes Münter's photographs with images from her own photo archive. This visual dialogue is accompanied by an essay in which she recapitulates her exploration of Münter’s pictorial world and relates it to her own experiences with the medium of photography. The artist’s publication thus develops a multilayered analysis exploring the fundamental conditions governing photography and its contextual origins, intentions, and motifs. Kathrin Sonntag (b. 1981 in Berlin) explores the possibilities of the medium of photography through her installations. Gabriele Münter (b. 1877 in Berlin, d. 1962 in Murnau) took her first photographs in 1889 during a trip to the US—she subsequently trained as a painter and gained recognition in that field. Kathrin Sonntag & Gabriele Münter – Das reisende Auge Marta Herford 8 June 2024 -12 January 2025; Kunstmuseum Ravensburg 22 November 2025 –22 March 2026

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