{"product_id":"15076-i-am-irene-andessner","title":"I am Irene Andessner","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last ten years, the Austrian-born artist Irene Andessner has been working on a new definition of the self portrait genre. Inspired by women´s portraits from past centuries, she first researches her chosen subjects in archives and libraries, only to enter into an alliance with them by means of photography, video and computer technology - as with, for instance, Nannerl Mozart, Frida Kahlo or Angelika Kauffmann. Andessner abducts these historical personages into the world of today, hands them a cell phone or a Polaroid camera. In 2001, Irene Andessner immersed herself into exploring the person and myth of Marlene Dietrich. A hundred years after the actress´ birth, Andessner investigated both her emotions and thinking, and thus, in the course of a few months, mentally and visually \u0026quot;transformed\u0026quot; herself into the actress. During the whole process she was accompanied by newspaper reporters and TV cameras from Wiener Casting to the Kölner Transvestitenbühne - all the way to the Berlin registry office, where she married a Mr. Dietrich in order to become \u0026quot;Mrs. Dietrich\u0026quot; officially. With this work and others, the book at hand features a representative selection of Andessner’s work. Exhibition Schedule: Stadthaus Ulm July 6 - August 31, 2003 \u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44425436430600,"sku":"9783775712873","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775712873_b21a84ad-e943-41cf-a997-9ab7c54308ca.jpg?v=1744099125","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/15076-i-am-irene-andessner","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}