Gerfried Stocker

Franz Smola

Andreas Spiegl

Rebecca Merlic

Michaela Wimplinger

Manuela Hillmann

Helen Starr

Dominik Strzelec

"TheCityAsAHouse" is a visually stunning art book that challenges the concept of the private home. In this experiment, a 30-year-old European lives in Tokyo without a private home, relying only on a smartphone. Traditional private spaces such as bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms are abolished, and public spaces become the norm for daily needs. The book explores the implications of the shift of privacy to non-domestic spaces and asks whether a new form of nomadic living is emerging. It also explores the potential for new artistic and architectural possibilities and infrastructure for society. The book includes various types of data collected during the experiment and offers a digital journey through the game experiences to discover new perspectives. "TheCityAsAHouse" invites readers to reflect on the future of society and living without traditional homes, and encourages them to embrace the possibilities that lie ahead. (Verlagsangaben)

How the Network of Spaces Abolishes the Private Apartment

Rebecca Merlic: The City as a House

Gustav Klimt

Tobias Günter Natter

Peter Weinhäupl

The work of Gustav Klimt is world famous, but the man and artist behind these masterpieces has largely remained an enigma. In honour of Klimts 150th birthday, this book and an anniversary exhibition at the Leopold Museum shed new light on key works such as the allegory Death and Life, outstanding landscape paintings and drawings by Gustav Klimt. The pictures are juxtaposed here with original quotations as well as postcards, letters and telegraphs the painter wrote over a period of some twenty years to his lifelong companion, Emilie Flöge. Until now the conventional wisdom has been: Even his friends were hardly ever permitted a glimpse behind the wall that Klimt built around himself (Hans Tietze, 1919). Now, for the first time, this book and the exhibition shift the focus to the artists private, personal side. A special role in this regard is played by Klimts studios, which served as a refuge from public life, a place where the artist was completely at one with himself, an erotic hortus conclusus that was enshrouded by myth even in his lifetime. There, he also speaks to us as a collector of Japanese woodcarvings, African tribal art and Chinese paintings. This probing survey of his art and his personal life is underlaid with an abundance of contemporary photographs showing Klimt in public and private settings, in his studio, at social events and relaxing on his Sommerfrische holidays on Attersee.

Up Close and Personal : Paintings, Letters, Insights

Klimt

Franz Smola

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