Garden on My Cheek

Ever since John Berger first saw Liane Birnberg's artwork in her studio many years ago, they have been connected in a friendship of high productivity for Liane. He says that her artwork has 'eyes' and continuously sends her his new books, which function as catapults for her work. Language plays a significant role in Liane Birnberg's images, but it is only recognizable through pure graphics. The words are embedded in micro-glass beads; they become distorted, and other lines and forms engulf everything. The text and the image merge, though neither belongs to the other. 'garden on my cheek' is the third book by John Berger and Liane Birnberg. The book is released by PalmArtPress in celebration of John Berger's 90th birthday.

John Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism 'Ways of Seeing', written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text. Berger is also a script writer and has written many critically acclaimed movies. In 1962, this famous English novelist, poet and painter went in self-imposed exile in France as he was frustrated with coldness of England's urban life. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss.Painter, composer, born 1948 in Bucharest. Studied music at the conservatory, led the first women's pop band in East Europe; became a painter and composed new contemporary music; lives and works in Berlin.