Stilleven [ˌstı(l)ˈleː.vǝ(n)]
Stilleven [ˌstı(l)ˈleː.vǝ(n)]
Eine Inventur / An Inventory
Edited by Payer Gabriel (Micha Payer & Martin Gabriel)
Texts by Valerie Jaudon & Joyce Kozloff, Micha Payer / Graphic design: Hannah Sakai, Nik Thoenen
German/English, 104 pages, 24 × 33 cm, numerous color illustrations, softcover, and-marbled dust jacket
Dezember 2025
ISBN 978-3-903447-25-7
€ 45.00 [A]
€ 44.00 [A]
Based on drawings by Payer Gabriel, the artist’s book stilleven [stɪlevə(n)]: Eine Inventur / An Inventory is an inventory-like exploration of still life. Between enumeration and cosmogram, the book unfolds two intertwining strands of text and image. Through the interplay of drawing, scientific tableaux, decoration, colonial botany, and the genealogical interconnections of European still lifes, the book develops a critical reading of still life.
The hand-marbled book covers, created by the artist duo Payer Gabriel, make each of the 350 copies unique and carry the idea of inventory through to the external design.
350 numbered copies, dust jacket in three color versions, all marbled by hand
