Kai Althoff - Souffleuse der Isolation (dt./engl.)

Fully illustrated and conceived by the celebrated German artist (born 1966),§this book traces the evolution of the work from the early 1990s until§today.§Through painting, collages, drawings, videos, and installations, Kai§Althoff engages with topics such as (masculine) identity, sensuality, the§politics of violence, and (notably German) history. Borrowing stylistically§as much from avant-garde collage as from fairy-tale illustration, his§work possesses a timeless quality, where narratives are suggested with§confessional intimacy and rendered with exquisite sensitivity.§The book includes newly commissioned texts by the artist, Angus Cook,§Antje Majewski, and Patrik Scherrer.§The book is published with the Kunsthalle Zürich.