Brigitte Lustenberger

A thick paperback book lies at an angle on a white background. The cover features a large, artistic image of a red and pink translucent flower, resembling a poppy. The title, Apparition of Memory, and the author's name, Brigitte Lustenberger, are printed in white text over the flower.

A book cover with a white background, featuring an artistic monoprint of a large red and pink poppy. The flower's petals have a delicate, veiny texture, and its center is a dark, inky black. White serif text is superimposed over the image of the poppy.

A book cover on a white background, featuring a macro photograph of a translucent, pressed pink and red flower petal with visible veins and a dark, textured center. White text is overlaid on the image, reading: Texts by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Danaé Panchaud, Chiara Agradi.

A high-angle, close-up shot of an open book with white pages on a white background. The page on the right displays a delicate botanical image of a single, arching stem with several translucent, yellow, bell-shaped flowers. A blank page on the left is slightly curled as if being turned.

An open book with a red textured spine lies flat on a white surface. The pages display a large, ethereal image of a flower with translucent, delicate petals in shades of orange, red, and pink, with a dark, fibrous center.

An open book laid flat against a white background. The left page shows a small, centered image of a pressed, translucent red flower. The right page is filled with black text, with the title An Apparition of Memory: The Fragile Balance of Living Things by Chiara Agradi at the top.

An open book viewed from above on a white background, displaying a large illustration of a translucent purple flower with delicate veins and a yellow and orange center across the two-page spread. The edges of the book have a red and white textured pattern.

Brigitte Lustenberger

An Apparition of Memory

€ 64.00

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Edited by: Nadine Barth, Kanton Bern, Brigitte Lustenberger

Graphic Design: Brian Paul Lamotte, Brigitte Lustenberger

Artist: Brigitte Lustenberger

Texts by: Chiara Agradi, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Yuri Mitsuda, Danaé Panchaud

English, French, German, Japanese

November 2023, 224 Pages

Paperback with Lay-Flat Binding

224mm x 300mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5548-1

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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| The beauty and tenderness of withering and decay

In this gorgeous book, Brigitte Lustenberger explores the passing of time, memory and the fragility of life. She transforms flowers dried on glass used for photographic slides into delicate photographs. Celebrating the beauty of decay, Lustenberger leads us into a fascinating world of withered flowers. Her images reveal the incredible details of nature's ingenious constructions. The artist manages to combine both the fleetingness of a drawing made with light and the preservation of a photograph. Four essays by renowned curators provide insight into the artist's process-oriented working method, the interweaving of analogue and digital technology in her practice, and contextualize An Apparition of Memory within Western and Japanese photographic and art history.

BRIGITTE LUSTENBERGER (*1969, Zurich) studied Photo Theory and History at Zurich University and Fine Art Photography at Parsons The New School of Design in New York. Lustenberger explores the essence of the medium of photography and its close connection to themes such as decay, memory and death. She works with large and medium format cameras, scanners, iPhones, overhead and slide projectors. Her work has won numerous awards and has been exhibited internationally. She lives in Bern, Switzerland.

EXHIBITIONS
Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
Fall 2023
Centre de la Photographie Genève
Fall 2023