pitalismus ist ill/On Jules Spinatsch
Roma Publications 2026
Picture Book: pitalismus ist ill
Editors: Damian Jurt, Stephan Kunz, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
Author: Jules Spinatsch
Design: Claudio Barandun
238 pages
ISBN: 978-94-6446-109-1
20 cm x 27 cm
English
Reader: On Jules Spinatsch
Editors: Damian Jurt, Stephan Kunz, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur
Authors: Joerg Bader, Wolfgang Brückle, Michael Hiltbrunner, Damian Jurt, Susanna Koeberle, Stephan Kunz, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Jörg Scheller
Design: Claudio Barandun
288 pages
ISBN: 978-94-6446-110-7
13.6 x 20 cm
English/German
To accompany the exhibition Jules Spinatsch. 1964 – 2155 at the Bündner Kunstmuseum, Roma Publications is releasing a two-volume publication Including the picture book pitalismus ist ill and the reader On Jules Spinatsch.
The picture book pitalismus ist ill offers an overview of Jules Spinatsch’s body of work spanning more than three decades. It brings together photographs from various series and places them in a new associative relationships. The books elaborate sequencing offers a visual travel through a documentary photography universe, which is based on the the artis’s own and found visual material, as well as algorithmic image-processing that he transforms into photographic installations and publications
On Jules Spinatsch complements the photobook with art-historical and essayistic contributions. The reader explores central themes of Spinatsch’s body of work. The questioning of photography and authorship, as well as topics such as media events, representation, surveillance, and landscape, are examined from various perspectives. The volume also brings together reference images, documents, and the new photo-essay Books in Communication, thereby facilitating an in-depth engagement with Jules Spinatsch’s artistic practice.
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