Truschner, Peter: Die Maske abgenommenKünstler und Modell im 21. Jahrhundert
Peter Truschner's Die Maske abgenommen (The Mask Taken Off) is an inventory of the delicate relationship between artist and model, the like of which have never been seen before. The text spans an arc from antiquity to the current relationship between the sexes at eye level, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gerhard Richter. Jacques Rivette's film »La Belle Noiseuse«, starring Michel Piccoli and Emmanuelle Béart, serves as a guide. The text derives its particular charm from the fact that Peter Truschner not only reflects on the special circumstances of this collaboration, but also knows them firsthand and brings them to light: he is not only a writer, but also a photographic artist. For his new book of photographs, »She stood there a Loaded Gun,« he together with the performing artist Anna Petzer spent more than three years exploring the various facets of a complex, female persona.
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