Joël Tettamanti – Local Studies
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| introduction | contributors |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Book, 232 pages, 21,6 x 27 cm, 216 pages full colour, 16 pages b/w, hardcover; english, french, german text, 49,00 EUR.
ISBN: 978-3-00-020282-7 | order |



























--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
introduction:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The swiss photographer Joël Tettamanti is a traveler and an observer. He travels to places as far away and remote as Greenland and Lesotho or high up into the mountains. He is the one who sees, what others will only realise once his images appear on magazine pages or gallery walls.

Tettamanti has the rare eye and understanding for the insignificant. He manages to give a photographical picture to abstract parameters such as emptyness, width, longing. Being cought by his work, the viewer becomes a traveler and observer himself. Being at home in Zurich, Berlin or Paris, one is travelling to places one would never travel to and sees things one would never see. But we take this journey with pleasure, surprised, tempted. Ever and ever again.

At first sight the images of Joel Tettamanti appear to be quiete and soft. But the photographer is an auteur, he is investigating the broader context of his topics, his intentions are serious. His images are beautiful and provocativ, never only made for decoration. They are challenging our ways of seeing, our perception and imagination. Beyond the contructed and controlled reality they are asking – almost forcing – us, to see more of the world we live in. Through serial studies of the landscape he approaches the identity of a nation step by step. Through the quietness of his work he confronts his audience with issues as large and important as urbanisation, globalisation, environmental issues, the impact of war, consumerism and tourism. Taking all this into account Joel Tettamanti is a researcher and an explorer, an artist and concerned documentor.

Editors: Nicolas Bourquin, Sven Ehmann

< back to top
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
with contributions from :

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Barbara Bleisch

Angelus Eisinger

Fulguro.

Geoffrey Cottenceau

Cathy Larqué

Romain Rousse

Maurice Scheltens

Raphaëlle Stopin

Uli Winters

Juliane Zöller

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Released in collaboration with
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Supported by
Office de la culture de la Republique et Canton du Jura
Stiftung Erna und Curt Burgauer, Kunsthaus Zürich
Commune des Breuleux

< back to top
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -