Since the late 1990s, Albert Weis’s art has gained widespread
public attention. His installations with their references to
architecture, as well as his sculptural and photographic works, analyse
the complex nature of urban spaces and examine how people interact with
them. In addition to Weis’s visual exploration of existing urban spaces
with his camera, he also investigates the utopian and dystopian
qualities of modern architecture – above all by means of physical
interventions. He is particularly intrigued by surfaces as the level
where internal and external, inside and outside, private and public are
both separated and bridged. Using mirrors, aluminum plates, screentone
sheets, coloured foil, perforated plates, and neon tubes, the artist
creates intricate structures. These works duplicate, enhance, and even
optically negate surfaces through folds, reflections, and mirror images.



Weis’s
installations consistently raise the question of how architecture and
design guide, limit, or liberate people’s everyday lives. What functions
do the buildings that surround us serve? How do roads and walkways
allow us to negotiate our urban landscape? How does architecture
influence our movements?



This book is the first-ever
comprehensive monograph on Albert Weis. Containing numerous essays,
in-depth information on individual works, and a wealth of images, it
provides unique insights into the rich and diverse oeuvre of the artist.



Text in English and German.