Smoke by Kris Lüdi PAPERBACK 9783907236871
Edition Patrick Frey
SmokeAuthor(s): Kris Ldi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edition Patrick Frey, Switzerland\nImprint: Edition Patrick Frey\nISBN-13: 9783907236871, 978-3907236871\nSynopsis\nWhen the most beautiful cows of the Appenzell villages are crowned in autumn,\nsmoke rises over the festival grounds. On this day, childrenoften still in their early\nsingle-digit yearspuff unabashedly on Krumme cigars, or Stumpen as they are\nknown locally, emblematic representatives of Swiss tobacco culture. They do so not\nin secret or as an act of rebellion, but in the midst of the village community, which not\nonly tolerates the tradition but is also the very source of it. It is a gesture of\nacknowledgment for the children who take on agricultural work and responsibilities\nfrom an early age.\nWith his work Smoke, artist Kris Ldi approaches the custom from a place of\npersonal memory. As a child, Ldi spent his summers with his grandparents in\nAppenzell and encountered the local children with the intimidated .
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