Lotte Lyon
Subtitle: coffee table book
By: Texte, Franz Thalmair
Contributors: Thalmair, Franz
Publisher: Schlebrügge.Editor
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wien
Language: ger
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9783903172142
Other titles: Coffee table book
Description: Approach the object?- the first sentence in Lotte Lyon?s book of drawings, installations, and photographs, accompanied by the words of Franz Thalmair. They quietly guide the viewer toward a willful, structured way of seeing and acting. The object on the opposite page: a plywood box with a turquoise rectangle on top. Its title: 'Coffee Table'. The texts by Franz Thalmair give the viewers precise - overly precise - instructions on how to conduct their acts of viewing. Like Lotte Lyon?s last book, 4 Millimeter, this publication blurs what at first glance seems obvious and reduced in a viewer-friendly way; it oscillates, even if straight lines and clear colors dominate. With wit and irony, the book traces the viewing habits of art aficionados and points them in a direction that helps them see through their own game. A cheerful, complex book full of games and reflections - also perfect for the coffee table.
Notes: Parallel texts in German and English.