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The Red Crowned Crane by Peter Granser
60,00€
Publisher: Edition Taube
Author(s): Peter Granser
Format: Hardcover
Size: 24 x 32 cm
Edition: 1st Edition of 500
Pages: 28
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-68917-006-6
“The Red Crowned-Crane & The End of the World” is both an artists’ book and a mini-exhibition. The leporello, half-bound in linen, shows abstract photographs of cranes inspired by Japanese screen painting. These are juxtaposed with a series of dramatically rising clouds of steam from a volcano at the “end of the world”: A symbol of the power of nature as the beginning and end of all life. Inserted in the book is another fanfold on which poems by Kashiwagi Mari are printed in Japanese and English.
“The end of the world” - this is what the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido, call the volcanic region in the north of Japan. The area is also home to the Manchurian crane, which was once widespread and has been a symbol of happiness, long life and loyalty in Asia for thousands of years. In the 1920s, humans brought the Manchurian crane to the brink of extinction. The rescue of the Manchurian crane is as legendary in Japan as the bird itself: During a particularly harsh winter in 1952, a farmer saved one of the last flocks from starvation by spreading grain in a field where the cranes had sought refuge.
Humans are destroying nature, but at the same time the dedicated actions of one individual can save a species and perhaps even an entire ecosystem.
“The Red-Crowned Crane & The End of the World” by Peter Granser was created in Hokkaido in 2020 and addresses the complex relationship between man and nature. “The Red-Crowned Crane & The End of the World” can be staged as an exhibition within your own four walls; together with the poems and a specially composed sound by Marcin Et Maldoror, the leporello object forms a unit.
The fanfold is held together by a white sleeve with a short informative text.
The book is part of the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt and the Stiftung Federkiel. Together with VG Bild-Kunst, they have generously supported the creation of the work and the book.
Peter Granser was born in Hanover in 1971 as an Austrian citizen. He is self-taught and lives in Stuttgart. Inspired by long stays in Japan, China and Taiwan, Granser and his wife Beatrice Theil founded the ITO Raum in 2015. There, they experiment with unusual exhibition formats and forms as well as artistic positions that revolve around themes such as time, emptiness, nature, existence and consciousness, themes that are also central to Granser's own work.
At ITO (ITO is the Japanese word for thread), they combine contemporary art with tea sessions that allow visitors to concentrate on the moment and still leave room for communication. To date, Peter Granser has published twelve books, the last five of them with Edition Taube.
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