Daniele Buetti is one of the artists who has explored the topic of lifestyle and media codes. The artist, born in Switzerland in 1955, has become known to a wider audience by his working over of fashion advertisements, the re-formulation of fair appearances embodied by super models like Claudia and Naomi, Giselle and Kate: "Never enough of you" is what he scrawled onto the bodies in a martial-looking typography, bringing the phantasmatic effect of mass communications precisely to a point. Or the models suffer a transfiguration to "Nike", the trademarks of the products they advertise visible as growth-like identifications on their skin. Due to such forceful subjects, Buetti has been called the "new king of pop" - a designation much too short-sighted in the light of Buetti's extensive oeuvre, an oeuvre which explores the topic of our goods and consumption-happy society in a much larger context. This publication reveals the performance-like beginnings, provides an overview over the most important installations, photograph panels, illuminated boxes and videos and traces the origins of the "winged cross", Buetti's trademark from the late eighties.
- ISBN10 3775712933
- ISBN13 9783775712934
- Publish Date 30 March 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2008
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Hatje Cantz
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English