Uta Zaumseil
Nachtflüge
Hardly any other artist embodies the search for a contemporary form of expression via the ancient technique of the woodcut as Uta Zaumseil (*1962) does.
Zaumseil’s woodcuts tend to take a long time to make due to the size of the format and the elaborate implementation of several colors. The artist makes use of the rare, rather risky technique known as the “lost plate,” in which parts of the surface are constantly removed. Zaumseil shatters the viewer’s expectations, since large sections of the images are as familiar as they are inexplicable. The artist places the pictorial, photorealistic elements taken from everyday life and the environment in colorful spaces or confronts them with structures that seem to be abstract and removed from our world of objects.
November 2020
ISBN 978-3-7356-0740-9
28 × 21 cm
80 pages
51 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: German, English
Editor
Martin Schick, Städtische Galerie Backnang und Kai Uwe Schierz, Angermuseum Erfurt
Text by
Martin Schick, Kai Uwe Schierz
Design by
Volker Dittmar / xperformance, Agentur für Kommunikation und Design, Zwickau
Events
Uta Zaumseil – Nachtflüge, 21.11.2020–21.2.2021, Galerie der Stadt Backnang; Frühjahr 2022, Angermuseum Erfurt
