Microreview: Being Precise







- Date
- 2020 June
- Subtitle
- Markus Schwander reviews Schuck, Nicole. Valued Animals - From Wildlife Topographies to the Ecosystem Services of Marine and Alpine Fauna, (Hatje Cantz 2010 – 2020)
- Type
- microreview
- Author / Publisher
- Markus Schwander for NewsLibrary
- Author Info
Markus Schwander is an artist. He teaches and researches at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel.
- Language
Deutsch / English (translation: Erin Mallon)
- Also published here
Newsletter No. 22
- Reviewed Publication
Nicole Schuck. Geschätzte Tiere - Von Wildtiertopografien bis zu Ökosystemleistungen von Meeres- und Alpenfauna, 2010-2020 (Valued Animals - From Wildlife Topographies to the Ecosystem Services of Marine and Alpine Fauna, 2010 – 2020), Hatje Cantz, 2019.
The publication is foremost a book of pictures. They show concentrations and isolations of utmost varied lines; drawn approaches to individual animals. Schuck pursues details that merge in highly differentiated surfaces. In addition, six texts discuss value and use in ecosystems. Calculable ecosystem services thus converge with an appreciation of animals that emerges in attentive observation. Combined with elements of its surroundings and the artist's research, each animal is reinvented in its uniqueness in the drawing.
The artist researches in scientific archives, transfers knowledge of biology to art and poses ecological questions through art. All this indicates that her work is an important contribution to artistic research. However her examination becomes exceptional in the precision of her drawn stroke; with genuinely artistic means, she implements it to make the taut skin of a bat or the highly sensitive interconnection of quills experiencable. In Valued Animals the exactitude of scientific measurement is mirrored in the nuanced differentiation of the drawn line.
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Die Publikation ist zuerst ein Bilderbuch. Abgebildet sind zeichnerische Annäherungen an einzelne Tiere durch Ballung und Vereinzelung unterschiedlichster Linien. Schuck verfolgt Details, die sich zu höchst differenzierten Oberflächen zusammenfügen. Sechs Texte thematisieren in einem zweiten Teil Wert und Nutzen in Ökosystemen. Berechnete Ökosystemleistung trifft so auf die Wertschätzung von Tieren, wie sie in der aufmerksamen Betrachtung entsteht. Kombiniert mit Elementen der Umgebung und der Recherche wird das Tier in seiner Einzigartigkeit im Zeichnen neu erfunden.
Die Künstlerin recherchiert in wissenschaftlichen Archiven, sie transferiert Wissen der Biologie in die Kunst und thematisiert Fragestellungen aus der Ökologie durch die Kunst. Das alles weist darauf hin, dass es sich um einen wichtigen Beitrag zur der Künstlerischen Forschung handelt. Besonders wird ihre Untersuchung aber durch die Genauigkeit ihres Striches, durch den sie mit künstlerischen Mitteln gespannte Hautpartien einer Fledermaus oder die hochempfindliche Verbundenheit von Federkielen erlebbar macht. Die Exaktheit des Messens in der Wissenschaft wird in „Geschätzte Tiere“ durch die Differenziertheit der Linienführung in der Zeichnung reflektiert.
Markus Schwander ist Künstler. Er lehrt und forscht an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel.
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Microreview: Being Precise
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