Roman Pfeffer Livres

Irony, correction, transformation, and condensation characterize the approach with which Roman Pfeffer engages with everyday objects as well as visual art. His works do not adhere to a specific medium but playfully move between different genres, including sculpture, painting, and graphics, as well as photography, video, and applied art. The artist appropriates the worlds of art and everyday life, operating like a scientist, constructing mathematical formulas without conforming to rational laws. Cosima Rainer and Christian Holler each dedicate an essay to Roman Pfeffer's conceptual approach.

“Inframince”, a term coined by Marcel Duchamp, refers to ephemeral, ultra-thin, and undecidable phenomena – such as the warmth that remains on a chair after a person gets up. In this book, “inframince” is taken to signify forms of transdisciplinarity in contemporary art. Authors and visual artists capture in text and image fleeting moments in which artistic, theoretical, scientific, or everyday cultural elements meet, change, or merge with one another. Numerous examples of artistic and teaching practice within the discipline of TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna vividly reveal how these manifold transgressions can be rendered productive.