Beat Streuli

Swiss artist Beat Streuli takes the urban environment and its inhabitants as the central motif of his work. His photographs are neither documentary nor conceptual: rather they lead us to a form of aesthetics that one could describe as the 'glamour of the usual.'This monograph is a survey of his oeuvre of the last 15 years, which includes billboards and large-scale window installations on the facades of public buildings, and a selection of his installations of slide and video projections.Streuli by Streuli: an extensive image sequence mostly taken by the artist himself documents Streuli's rejection of the classic museum exhibition context. Instead he takes the photographs back to their place of origin – public space. With newly commissioned texts by Raymond Bellour, Roberta Valtorta, and Jonathan Watkins.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Beat Streuli at Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan (22 April - 12 October 2012) and at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (20 November 2012 - 4 February 2013).