Henry Rox Revue – Photobook Presentation with Wolfgang Vollmer
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 19:00
Softcover, Stumpergasse 53-55, 1060 Vienna
Talk language: German
The Henry Rox Revue combines artistic feats of acrobatics, music and dance with some of the scurrilities of everyday life – Here the impossible is captured in unique photographs. Henry Rox’s photographic imagery is a madcap revue packed full of cryptic humour and witty charm. It toys with disguises and masquerades and thrives on simple yet fanciful arrangements and staged settings, with various fruits and vegetables cast as the main protagonists in all manner of roles. The little that exists in the way of documents, photographs and references to Henry Rox’s works is scattered across many archives and collections in both America and Europe. To date, there has been no comprehensive publication, an extensive catalogue raisonné of his works – Henry Rox is a forgotten artist from the middle of the 20th century. This book compiled by Wolfgang Vollmer represents the astonishing rediscovery of an impressive artistic position.
Henry Rox, born in 1899 in Berlin, Germany, died in 1967 in Massachusetts, USA, was a German-American artist, sculptor and photographer.
Wolfgang Vollmer, born in 1952 in Marburg, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, is a photographer, artist, collector, curator and lecturer in photography.
Winner of the German Photo Book Prize 2021/22 in Bronze in the category “Conceptual-artistic photo book”. Published by Fotohof in 2020, Hardcover, 24 × 16 cm, 1500 copies, Text: Wolfgang Vollmer, Language: English & German, Design: Sarah Kluder & Wolfgang Vollmer
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