Gerhard Kress (Mabon Arts Publishing)
This book is the accompaniment to a touring art exhibition which was at the Senedd last month. You can catch some of these images, hopefully, at the YMCA shop in Pontypridd this month, too, when it will become a pop-up gallery. Gerhard Kress is a musician, artist, and writer of both poetry and prose, and this book contains a selection of photographs and poems.
The title refers to the image’s subject matter: shop dummies, statues, dolls, and all other ‘inanimate people’. Through these images, we are drawn into a world which is both our-own and not-our-own, in a slightly creepy series which at once reflects our tendency to imprint ourselves upon our surroundings, but also reinforces the mute aspect, potentially, of other human beings. Idealistic, philosophical, and beautifully expressed, these are words worth reading, in an intriguing, well-produced book.
Price: £14.95. Info: [email protected]