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Robert Walser (1878–1956) is considered one of the most important writers of the modern age. His extensive work and life as an outsider have not only fascinated readers and writers from all over the world, but have also increasingly captured the imagination of visual artists, demonstrating his inspiring force and the great variety of works it has given rise to. He was strongly influenced by the art of his age, which reflects the same early 20th-century conflicts between the city and country and between tradition and modernism that are movingly described in his texts. This publication brings together historical and contemporary pictorial worlds in a way that yields new perspectives on different aspects of Robert Walser and his work.

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Cinema mon amour focuses on the mutual fascination that art and film have for one another. It features work by international artists, including Martin Arnold, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Marc Bauer, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, collectif_fact, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Thomas Galler, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Muller, Douglas Gordon, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Samson Kambalu, Daniela Keiser, Urs Luthi, Philippe Parreno, Julian Rosefeldt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and Mark Wallinger. All of them have engaged with different themes surrounding cinema and filmmaking. The well-founded essays discuss topics such as cinema as space, the film industry, found footage, specific movies and genres, the mechanisms of film, as well as the filmmakers' gaze at art. This lavishly illustrated book, published to coincide with an exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, offers an insight into the allure that film and cinema have on us. Cinema mon amour, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, 22 January to 17 April 2017.

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