Healing Ecology: Finding the Human in Nature, Weber Andreas

Автор: Baur, Andreas
Название: Markus weber: krazy dog moon kat
ISBN: 3864422515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783864422515
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Описание: Desolate and romantic

The book on the occasion of Marcus Weber's exhibition KRAZY DOG MOON KAT presents for the first time a wide selection of paintings by the -artist, who was born in Stuttgart in 1965 and now lives in Berlin. They are narrative tongue-in-cheek images, allusive group portraits and urban land-scapes with grotesque re-wordings of social -orders, and caricatured and exaggerated individual characters. There are flashes of painterly sophistication, so that some works may be read as a -capriccio, desolate and romantic at the same time. Great painters seem to always resonate - Marcus Weber displays an unmistakable enthusiasm for -artists such as James Ensor and Philip Guston.All in all, this creates a grotesque mixture mocking each and every hierarchy, based as much on -productive bridging into the realm of comics by Georg Herriman as on art history. Weber is a genre painter in the best tradition who paints images of society. Unconventional communities are moved into focus - such as isolated men at bar counters, characters reading art magazines, certain types slouching in design furniture, and caf house scenes where masked people gather together - but above all, -delicate details receive the utmost -attention, such as three scoops of ice cream or a piece of cake known as Donauwelle. As a subtle and multi-layered reaction to current political and social conditions, these works outrival so-called new history painting, which is usually exhausted by painted copies of press photos. Accordingly, the New York Times (May 2, 2018), on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in the United States, attested to the artist a surprisingly up-to-date -approach in his emulating the immutability of real life.

Villa Merkel Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, 24/6 - 19/8/2018

Автор: Weber Andreas
Название: Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 0262536668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262536660
Издательство: MIT Press
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A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.

We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control nature but that humans and nature exist in a commons of mutual transformation. There is no nature-human dualism, he contends, because the fundamental dimension of existence is shared in what he calls "aliveness." All subjectivity is intersubjectivity. Self is self-through-other. Seeing all beings in a common household of matter, desire, and imagination, an economy of metabolic and economic transformation, is "enlivenment." This perspective allows us to move beyond Enlightenment-style thinking that strips material reality of any subjectivity.

To take this step, Weber argues, we need to supplant the concept of techn with the concept of poiesis as the element that brings forth reality. In a world not divided into things and ideas, culture and nature, reality arises from the creation of relationships and continuous fertile transformations; any thinking in terms of relationships comes about as a poetics. The self is always a function of the whole; the whole is equally a function of the individual. Only this integrated freedom allows humanity to reconcile with the natural world.

This first English edition of Enlivenment has been expanded and updated from the German edition.