Madame Tricot
Subtitle: Delicatessen
By: authors, Dr. Dominique Kaehler Schweizer, Dr. Gabrielle Obrist (preface) and Gerhard Schoppel (epilogue)
Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Stuttgart, Germany
Language: ger
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9783897905139
Subjects: Catalogs; Knitting; Textile crafts; Food in art; Knitting in art
Other titles: Delicatessen; Madame Tricot.; Madame Tricot. English.
Description: "With her unique artistic installations, Madame Tricot - real name Dominique Kaehler Schweizer - displaces the viewer into an illusory world of knitted delicacies. Her smokehouses, refrigerators, counters of sausage and cheese, and platters of vegetables and desserts are full of wit and irony. The knitted human heads and anthropomorphic specimens, on the other hand, confront the viewer with the breaking of taboos and surreal allusions. The installation-like staging represents a balancing act of fine art and virtuosic craftsmanship, and draws on the Eat Art movement of the 1960s. The work of the Swiss artist thus repeatedly awakens associations with the work of Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth and Fischli/Weiss" -- Amazon.com.
Notes: In German and English.