What is it about baroque “food towers”, also known as cuccagnas, that fascinates Vorarlberg artist Paul Renner? To what extent do food and excess play a role in his art and what does it have to do with the illegal taverns that Renner operated from New York to Italy? Art historian Ute Pfanner explores these questions and many others in an interview with Paul Renner, with an introduction by Andreas Rudigier.
For the first time, all of Paul Renner’s food sculptures to date are presented in a single volume, created by long-time companion and photographer Christian Schramm – including photographs of the ten-metre-high installation in the atrium of the vorarlberg museum.
vorarlberg museum – Künstler im Gespräch: vol. 16_25 x 16 cm, 94 pages
