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Matthias Schaller is a retrospective of Schaller's photography in book form. Presenting all his major bodies of workfrom the last ten years such as the series "Studio Gursky" (2000), documenting Andreas Gursky's Düsseldorf studio;"Die Mühle" (2001-02), showing the studio-home of Bernd and Hilla Becher; and "Controfacciata" (2008), colourdrainedimages of the interiors of Venetian palaces. Including thumbnail images of all these series and a bibliography,this book is the perfect entry-point to Schaller's oeuvre and a comprehensive summary of it.Matthias Schaller was born in Dillingen/Donau, Germany, in 1965, and today lives in Venice and New York City.Schaller studied cultural anthropology in Göttingen, Hamburg and Siena. He was a DAAD fellow in Rome, and hasexhibited internationally in solo shows at institutions including Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Biennale d'Arte in Venice, thePicasso Museum in Münster, and Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. Steidl has published Schaller's The Mill(2007), Controfacciata (2008) and Purple Desk (2009).
A propos de l'auteur
Matthias Schaller was born in Dillingen/Donau, Germany, in 1965, and today lives in Venice and New York City.
Schaller studied cultural anthropology in Göttingen, Hamburg and Siena. He was a DAAD fellow in Rome, and has
exhibited internationally in solo shows at institutions including Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Biennale d'Arte in Venice, the
Picasso Museum in Münster, and Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. Steidl has published Schaller's The Mill
(2007), Controfacciata (2008) and Purple Desk (2009).
Germano Celant is an internationally acclaimed author and curator acknowledged for his theories on Arte Povera.
Celant has curated numerous exhibitions at many of the world's most prominent institutions, and has authored
hundreds of publications, both books and catalogues. He is currently director of Fondazione Prada in Milan, curator
of Fondazione Aldo Rossi in Milan, Curator of Art and Architecture at La Triennale di Milano and curator of Fondazione
Emilio and Annabianca Vedova in Venice.
