Wonderworlds

(Paperback)

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Judit Villiger takes her recollections of literary works and interweaves them with components of art history and her own subjective elements to translate them into new images. In doing so, she fabricates settings - stages without protagonists - inviting viewers to journey beyond them in their minds and to complete their own version of the tales depicted in the literary scenes she has created, based on Jules Verne's 'The Journey to the Centre of the Earth' or Dante's journey through the netherworld, among others. Judit Villiger is a hunter and collector of pictures. She renders her finds in three-dimensional miniature models and large-scale installations and captures the final result in photographs. An account of her works is given in this book, settings which remain suspended between reality and models.

Author Bio

Gabrielle Boller studied art history, philosophy and history of architecture at the Universities of Bern and Geneva. She works as an art critic and publicist, mainly in the areas of art theory and aesthetics. She was an assistant and publicist at the University of St. Gallen for NIKE (National Information Center for Cultural Heritage); she had also worked as the editor and curator at the Seedamm Kulturzentrum in Pfaffikon SZ until 2007. Guido Magnaguagno was born 1946 in St. Gallen. He studied art history and was conservator and vice-director of the Kunsthaus Zurich from 1980 to 2001. From 2001 to 2009 he was director of the Museum Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel. Judit Villiger was born in Lucerne in 1966. She lives and works in Steckborn and Zurich, Switzerland. Her works are included in collections in Switzerland, Austria, Canada and the USA.