CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE
Leykauf Alexandra, Michaud François ,  Rahn Kathleen, CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE (Altenburg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010).
Leykauf Alexandra, Michaud François ,  Rahn Kathleen, CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE (Altenburg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010).
Leykauf Alexandra, Michaud François ,  Rahn Kathleen, CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE (Altenburg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010).
Alexandra Leykauf, François Michaud, Kathleen Rahn
CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE
Altenburg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010
210 x 180 mm, 266 pp.
Offset, thread binding, with slip cover
ed. 1000 copies

I determined the order of the images formally, but also associatively, that is, certain forms wander through a sequence of images and through the different epochs and contexts from which the images come. But I also assign motifs to one another based on their content. A psycho test, consisting of a handful of wooden triangles (which should be arranged by the test person), stands next to the triangular segments of a Gothic vault, a monument by Walter Gropius next to a stage design for “Rheingold,” but a picture from a paper craft book can also be next to one of I have a folded book page, although the shapes are not similar. I see the entirety of the pictures as a kaleidoscope, the individual facets are equally important and always find new points of contact. There is no development, no narrative that draws an architectural-historical line, for example. The picture of the kaleidoscope or the dance hits it!

 

Alexandra Leykauf