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By Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss

Synthesis and Nullification is the 1st retrospective protecting the profession of Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss as a visible artist, image clothier, multimedia developer, author, researcher, educator and visionary conceptualist. Synthesis and Nullification is used right here metaphorically, because it stands for a posh and vast ranging theoretical and functional exploration in visible tradition. The ebook is split into 4 major chapters, which package deal in chronological order paintings, suggestion visualizations, installations, photos and multimedia paintings. It comprises various formerly unpublished texts and paintings from the final twenty years, permitting discovery of a complete universe of textual and visible fabric. Written for media students, media artists, designers, paintings historians, conversation specialists and curators.

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