SIGNS / PETER GRANSER

"The arrow indicates the direction—it unmistakably points to the right: in the middle of a prairie-like, outdoor setting on a billboard with large letters that spell out “Signs.” It is an image within an image of symbolic content, for Peter Granser has given his latest series of works, which were done in Texas in 2006–07, the title Signs. After Sun City and Coney Island, Signstracks down points of reference that can be grasped visually as a means to reveal America’s current state of mind. On his quest for suitable signs and symbols, the photographer traveled more than nineteen thousand kilometers throughout Texas, working from a stance of distant observation and skepticism as he captured images of emptiness and stagnation in George W. Bush’s home country. " (HATJECANTZ)

Peter Granser was born in 1971 as an austrian citizen in Hannover, Germany. He is self-educated and lives in Stuttgart. Granser established already with his first project Sun Citya significant style and developed his work over the years.

In 2019 Granser received the Kubus. Sparda Audience Award for his exhibition at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart that showed an overview of his work of the last 10 years.

Granser´s work has been exhibited amongst many others at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, FOAM Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Photo Espana, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, MAK Museum Wien, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen/Galerie, NGBK Berlin and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. 

Text(s) by Barry Vacker, Karen Irvine

German, English

2008.

132 pp., 99 ills.

clothbound

30.20 x 30.30 cm