Clemens Ascher: Of Forms and Traces

Clemens Ascher: Of Forms and TracesClemens Aschers ongoing series Of Forms and Traces explores the relationship among forms seen in the arts and those present in everyday life. Its focus lies on the interplay between the abstract character of forms and the representational, emotional or poetic dimensions of the object photographed and the photo itself. The photographs were shot over a period of more than five years in undisclosed locations across the globe. To Clemens, the book serves

It considers how to evoke the myriad ironies of time passing that the cityscape embodies

edited by Værslev

folded twice and bound

seems to be strict

Its focus lies on the interplay between the abstract character of forms and the representational

a word-dense landscape that preys on the car-bound with advertising slogans promising this deal or that one

manifesting the artist’s intention to show the motifs as subjects

Jessie Cox

and of press articles

The book features two additional texts: Flame Lix* by David Bennewith and Panoptics by Paul Gangloff

Tim Zulauf

She is not only interested in taxonomies