Helga Schmidhuber

Does Voodoo work?

This opulent artist's book transports the reader into Helga Schmidhuber's very unique cosmos and features current examples of her multi-layered work. This catalogue is published to coincide with her exhibition of the same name in Museum Wiesbaden, in which she assembles a wide variety of objects around a stuffed Java tiger from the natural history collection. The objects include large-scale paintings, miniatures on book covers, collages, animals' skulls, posters and bizarre found objects from her own collection. Schmidhuber blurs the boundaries between natural and cultural history by combining together a huge variety of media and materials.