Benthack, Saskia et al. (Eds.)
“ Smell it! The Fragrance of Art - ten exhibitions in eight museums and a phenomenal supporting programme form a unique joint project on smell in contemporary art. The publication Smell it! captures this spectacular collaborative project in images and words. While visual art appeals to the sense of sight as music does to the sense of hearing, in the context of a dissolution of the boundaries of art, olfactory aspects are revealed in so-called Olfactory Art. Smell it! The Fragrance of Art confronts this phenomenon: ten Bremen institutions of contemporary art encounter art's little-explored venture into the world of smell. Contemporary artists working with odours were invited to realize their positions on the topic under individual conditions or to question existing collections olfactorily.”
A catalogue published on the occasion of multiple exhibitions dedicated to the work of artists who incorporate scent in their art, with contributions by Saskia Benthack, Janneke de Vries, Linda Günther, Mara-Lisa Kinne, Ingmar Lähnemann, Silke Rosenthal, Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Eva Vonrüti Moeller, Mădălina Diaconu, Kai Kähler, Effrosyni Kontogeorgou, Camilla Nicklaus-Maurer, Jonathan Reinarz, Anne Storm, Mirjam Verhey-Focke, and Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Richly illustrated with 156 colour images, and yes—the book has a strong smell, too!
Text in German and English.
Soft cover, 29 x 19 cm, 224 partially numbered pages, Köln 2021
ISBN: 978-3-86832-635-2
