Ursus Wehrli is a left-handed, broad-thinking, professional typographer. His first book, Tidying Up Art, is a visionary manifesto that took well-known artworks and put them back together in his more rational, more organized, and cleaner form of modern art. In this book, The Art of Clean Up, Wehrli extended his discerning eye into the physical world to tidy up common daily situations. He is currently working on sorting things that are normally too big to organise.
"A surprise on every spread.... The book is a great example of how
a compulsion for obsession can make for obsessively interesting
art." - NYTimes.com
"At once utterly delightful and playfully philosophical." - Brain
Pickings
"Brilliant.... There's a cumulative humor to these bright, sharp
photographs, and a deep puckish cleverness in Wehrli's choices.
It's the rare art book that provokes laughs, while still earning
admiration for color and composition; it's funny and beautiful. " -
The A.V. Club
"Ever wish your alphabet soup was actually legible? Your fruit
salad arranged into rows? Maybe not, but there's something
undeniably pleasing about The Art of Clean Up, a photo book by
Swiss comedian and visual artist Ursus Wehrli." -- People
magazine
"Organizers, prepare to swoon." - Fast Company.com
"The photographs are not only visually compelling, but they serve
as a fascinating look into an alternative reality in which chaos
has given way to careful geometry." - Cool Hunting
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