Margret Eicher: Once upon a Time in Mass Media

Conceptual artist Margret Eicher (*1955 in Viersen, Germany) became known for her large-format tapestries, in which she combines the Baroque form of the narrative tapestry with the visual language of today's information media. She processes found, public photographs of events in a way that questions their supposedly objective approach and truthful content. By means of artistic appropriation, trivial, everyday mass-media motifs are lent a sense of magical strangeness. Befitting the...
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Conceptual artist Margret Eicher (*1955 in Viersen, Germany) became known for her large-format tapestries, in which she combines the Baroque form of the narrative tapestry with the visual language of today's information media. She processes found, public photographs of events in a way that questions their supposedly objective approach and truthful content. By means of artistic appropriation, trivial, everyday mass-media motifs are lent a sense of magical strangeness. Befitting the title Once Upon a Time (in Mass Media), this publication presents photographs of some of the artist's most important works--taken outdoors against the historical backdrop of the Schwetzingen Castle gardens--and counteracts the sensual, poetic images with analytical essays on such themes as the consumption, reception, and constructed power of visual media worlds. Exhibition schedule: Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, May, 2012 - Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, March-June, 2013 - Kunstmuseum Ahlen, May-June, 2014 - Angermuseum Erfurt, September, 2014 - Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, September, 2014