Robert Longo's enormous, photo-based, charcoal drawings show the beauty and horror of the present time. The American artist s (born 1953 in Brooklyn, New York) large works contrast the innocence of sleeping toddlers, the quiet grandness of the earth and planets, roses in bloom, and Gothic cathedrals with threatening images of atom bomb explosions, fighter pilots, monster waves, sharks, and the mouths of revolvers. Inexorably and seismographically precise, the winner of the 2005 Goslar Kaiserring and 2010 inductee to the French Order of Arts and Letters, records the state of our world. Longo s powerful motifs give form and expression to the feelings of fear and longing felt by people in the 21st century, and affect the viewer with the full force of the medium. This large, elaborately designed book, printed on natural paper using an unusual tritone process, has been created in close collaboration with the artist, and offers a comprehensive overview of his charcoal drawings from the past decade. Exhibition schedule: Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, November 28, 2010 - September 25, 2011 Skryť popis