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]]> The artist duo Gen Atem / Miriam Bossard challenge passers-by on the streets of Zurich with their subtle, minimalist interventions. With white chalk they draw circles on squares or around objects and they thereby transform everyday situations into extraordinary scenes. Through the mindful and at the same time radical drawing of white lines on black asphalt, they simultaneously delimit and exclude, question things or direct the gaze to the supposed nothingness.

No sooner do the observers tentatively begin to realize what is going on here than the artist duo breaks the spell again by first blurring the circles and then carefully wiping up the chalk powder so that hardly any traces remain. The dust left behind is a magical substance; charged by the subversive actions and the amazement of the participating passers-by. This magic powder is kept in an urn and transferred from Zurich to St. Gallen. There it is added to a pot of white paint with which the artist duo finally commits a paint attack on a white wall in the Museum of Emptiness.

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]]> Meditated Vandalism https://edition.bossardwettstein.com/product/meditated-vandalism/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 23:00:13 +0000 https://edition.bossardwettstein.com/?post_type=product&p=116
200 Pages • Monograph about the artist Gen Atem

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]]> A Zen monk who sprays graffiti on subway cars and throws paint at famous people: Gen Atem, the wild pioneer of the European urban art movement. In the eighties and nineties Gen Atem worked with New York hip hop legend Rammellzee. Their joint multimedia performances Gothic Futurism Ikonoklast Panzerism were legendary. Now Gen Atem’s latest work is presented in this book: a clash with everyone and everything. Both the beautiful and fascinating as well as the horrible and insignificant, even the intangible and incomprehensible, are attacked and questioned: Is globalization destroying our culture, and does self-representation preserve my identity? Gen Atem relies on the power of images and invites viewers to devise their own answers: only he or she who participates is ready for the revolution.

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]]> Time Frame https://edition.bossardwettstein.com/product/time-frame/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:00:08 +0000 https://edition.bossardwettstein.com/?post_type=product&p=31 44 Pages • Art Collection Canton of Zurich, Art in public space, paintings

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]]> The artist duo Gen Atem / Miriam Bossard was commissioned by the canton of Zurich to create a comprehensive work for a university building in the city of Zurich. Several paintings on steel plates were created. This book gives an insight into the creative process, shows the finished works and presents stunning impressions of details of the paintings.

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