German artist Michael Riedel (born 1972) is as comfortable in the world of print and analog information as he is in the digital realm of websites and HTML code. "Michael Riedel: Poster--Painting--Presentation" is the first publication to carefully examine the practice for which the artist is best known: the systematic creation of paintings from posters generated with text found online. Riedel copies HTML code from websites that mention his work into one of his 34 poster templates, which he then arranges in different colors and orientations to make his paintings.
With a new essay by Tina Kukielski, "Michael Riedel: Poster--Painting--Presentation" lays out for the first time the intricate process behind the artist's ongoing series of paintings. The book, like the essay, is divided into three sections: one dedicated to Riedel's posters, one to his "Poster Paintings" and one to his recent "PowerPoint Paintings."