Christian Rothmann (b. K\u0119dzierzyn, Poland, 1954; lives and works in Berlin) is an artistic jack-of-all-trades, a builder of bridges between cultures, and a restless globetrotter and traveler across time. He takes photographs wherever he goes, especially when he is on the road, gathering documentaries with a creative edge, spontaneous yet powerfully symbolic pictures, or conceptual series. His motifs have included basketball hoops in the most unbelievable places, toys in restaurants and stores, exotic dishes, and\u2014in the sequence Legs of the World<\/em>\u2014beautiful legs, of real-world women, but also of advertising-poster idols and art objects. He has a special knack for recruiting accomplices from all age groups and across social and cultural differences, as for his series you and me<\/em> or Mother & Daughter<\/em>. Fierce large-format paintings and delicate watercolors on small paper formats from Rothmann\u2019s studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg complement his long-term photographic projects. The Light Touch<\/em> presents the artist\u2019s variegated visual art on almost five hundred pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Monograph of Curiosity<\/strong><\/p>\n Christian Rothmann (b. K\u0119dzierzyn, Poland, 1954; lives and works in Berlin) is an artistic jack-of-all-trades, a builder of bridges between cultures, and a restless globetrotter and traveler across time. He takes photographs wherever he goes, especially when he is on the road, gathering documentaries with a creative edge, spontaneous yet powerfully symbolic pictures, or conceptual series. His motifs have included basketball hoops in the most unbelievable places, toys in restaurants and stores, exotic dishes, and\u2014in the sequence Legs of the World<\/em>\u2014beautiful legs, of real-world women, but also of advertising-poster idols and art objects. He has a special knack for recruiting accomplices from all age groups and across social and cultural differences, as for his series you and me<\/em> or Mother & Daughter<\/em>. Fierce large-format paintings and delicate watercolors on small paper formats from Rothmann\u2019s studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg complement his long-term photographic projects. The Light Touch<\/em> presents the artist\u2019s variegated visual art on almost five hundred pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15630,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2213,2211],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15766","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-painting","8":"product_cat-photography","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n