Behrang Karimi - 'Rotpeter: Bild eines zur Dressur gezwungenen'
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| Publisher | Slimvolume |
| ISBN | 9781910516270 |
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This limited artist's book follows the 2022 solo exhibition 'Rotpeter: Bild eines zur Dressurgezwungenen' at Moon Grove, Manchester by the Cologne-based painter Behrang Karimi. The publication contains images from the exhibition alongside an English translation of Franz Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy', the tale of Rotpeter, a monkey forced to become human afterits capture. If the vacant, non-plussed or dead-eyed portrait of Rotpeter on the publication's cover takes its starting point from Kafka's story, Karimi's image and book refer to another literary character; Alex, the uncorrected thrill-seeking sociopathic narrator of the novel A Clockwork Orange, an invention of the anti-nationalist author Anthony Burgess, who Karimi cites as a major influence on his work.
| 70 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English |
Slimvolume
