{"product_id":"15614-erik-schmidt","title":"Erik Schmidt","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"\u003eErik Schmidt (*1968) has hunting fever. After getting in with aristocratic hunting circles, the Berlin-based artist was allowed to hunker down in coverts with the “most beautiful hunter in Germany,” chase game through the forests with the local farmers, and dance until the wee hours at hunt balls. With the help of his hosts he was able to inscrutably appropriate the rites that continue to constitute the nobility. \u003cBR\u003eSchmidt picks up on a classic visual theme, yet his plan of attack is conceptual: the artist amalgamates the motif of the hunter by slipping into the role; this is a metaphor for the dialectic between hunter and hunted, perpetrator and victim. Various clichés of masculinity are explored, some of them by Schmidt himself. The different forms of representation in \u003cI\u003eHunting Grounds\u003c\/I\u003e not only elucidate the social and symbolic consequences of hunting, but also track our enduring fascination for this archaic, male-dominated world.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cBR\u003eExhibition schedule: MARTa Herford, January 27–March 11,2007\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans-Plain; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874796368136,"sku":"9783775718271","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775718271_876b55c5-0a7e-4a96-8df0-cbca2c5b1069.jpg?v=1744061319","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/15614-erik-schmidt","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}