
An Vogelhäusern mangelt es jedoch nicht
- Publisher
- Edition Patrick Frey
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 978-3-905929-23-2
- Specifications
- Hardcover
284 pages
150 illustrations
28.8 x 22.2 cm
Design by Hi (Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun)
Language: German
An Vogelhäusern mangelt es jedoch nicht (There Is No Shortage of Birdhouses) is a never-before-seen combination of ornithological expertise and subjective sensibility. The artist's book unites drawings, computer illustrations, photographs and specially written bird portraits. At its centre is the human being and his schizophrenic relationship to nature, especially to one of the culturally most formative animal species, birds. The work's basis is the scientifically well-documented decline of much of the bird world in Switzerland: over 40 percent of local breeding bird species are currently on the Red List. Schenardi fills the gaps of the unexplored connections between materialistic human activity and nature's decline with his own subjective visual world, his artistic expression marked by biting social critique, cynicism but also humour.