"Ts new book accompanes an exbton of work by egt of today's most engagng nternatonal artsts - Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sara Morrs, Gabrel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobas Reberger, Gregor Scneder and Andrea Zttel. Troug a varety of meda and styles rangng from pantng, potograpy and vdeo to nstallaton, furnture desgn and arctecture, ts crop of young artsts from around te world offers a range of possbltes for makng sense of te often-mpersonal, ncreasngly fragmented terran of te postmodern world. Te artsts documented ere all concern temselves wt te dffcult project of cogntve mappng - te ndvdual and socal attempt to face up to an ncreasngly complex and seemngly unknowable realty. In addton to a crtcal essay by arctecture storan Mcael Sorkn - addressng te ever-cangng pyscalty of te contemporary world and ts mpact on te uman psyce - "Comfort" also features responses by eac artst to te queston of wat te concept of comfort means to tem."--BOOK JACKET.
