Oh, How I’ve Tried … by Susanne Kutter
The catalogue Oh, How I’ve Tried … by Susanne Kutter, with an essay by Gregor Jansen, was published on the occasion of Kutter’s exhibition Stille im Auge des Zyklons at Marburger Kunstverein. The bilingual German/English publication was edited by Michael Herrmann and Carola Schneider of the Marburger Kunstverein, designed by Rimini Berlin (18×24 cm, 112 pages, softcover) and published by Distanz Verlag (ISBN 978–3–95476–534–8). The book is set in HAL Timezone and HAL Four Grotesk, published by HAL Typefaces.
From the publisher’s website:
THE RIVALRY BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE
Susanne Kutter’s (b. Wernigerode, 1971; lives and works in Berlin) art spans a range of media including installation and performance art, sculpture, photography, and video. Her multimedia works probe the relation between nature and culture, with a focus on natural disasters. She portrays man’s dominance over nature as well as his dependence on it, which foils his desire for continuity and safety.
In addition to the nature–culture complex, the exhibition Stille im Auge des Zyklons at Marburger Kunstverein delves into the changes in Western society: the withering of lasting and profound relationships and the vanishing of an educated middle class whose life has been informed by the model of compromise and a preference for choices and conduct that have been sources of social stability.
