Leta Peer - Catalogue Borrowed Places
Leta Peer Borrowed Places
64 pages, ca. 35 images in colour
ISBN 3-85616-153-8
DM 48,00 / SFr 42,00 / € 24,00
Christoph Merian Verlag
You can order this catalogue in our gallery via e-mail or in every bookstore.
Leta Peer is known for her installations of small-foramt paintings in different locations like a hotel in Bergellen/Switzerland or the New York Grand Central Station. Painted Installed Photographed (Gemalt Installiert Fotografiert), in short GIFTS, is the name of this series in which the artist calls real situations in questsion and creates new meanings for her images.
Now, Peer has developed this concept further: friends select some works and are given these works as a loan for some time. Borrowed places documents how the works are installed by the friends in their private places - a gallery of discrete portraits, accompanied with short statements of the friends.
When the book came out there was an article about it in the Swiss newspaper Basler Allgemeinen Zeitung
Geborgen, geborgt, «eingeliehen» und «gestohlen» - jetzt lesen
that you can read online (in German) when you click on the link above.
We also have an english translation of that article here on our website.
On December 18 there was another article in the Bündner Tagblatt. You can read this one here.
