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The modern world can get messy. Fortunately, Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is a man of obsessive order, as he demonstrates with eye-catching surprise in The Art of Clean Up. Already a bestseller in Germany, this compulsive title has sold more than 100,000 copies in less than a year, and the fastidiously arranged images have garnered blog love from NPR, Brain Pickings, swissmiss, and more. Tapping into the desire for organization and the insanity of uber-order, Wehrli humorously categorizes everyday objects and situations by color, size, and shape. He arranges alphabet soup into alphabetical order, sorts the night sky by star size, and aligns sunbathers´ accoutrements all captured in bright photographs sure to astonish even the pickiest of neat freaks."

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Swiss comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli loves organisation in the extreme. In The Art of Clean Up, Wehrli arranges a bowl of alphabet soup, a group of pool-goers, a spruce branch and other elements of our chaotic world into neat rows sorted by colour, size, shape or type.

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Ursus Wehrli, Jahrgang 1969, ist Linkshänder, Querdenker und gelernter Typograf. Seit über 24 Jahren tourt er zusammen mit Nadja Sieger als Komikerduo Ursus & Nadeschkin zwischen Beinwil, Basel, Berlin und New York und wurde in dieser Konstellation mehrfach ausgezeichnet zuletzt mit dem "New York Comedy Award", dem "Salzburger Stier" und dem "Deutschen Kleinkunstpreis". Ursus Wehrli lebt als Komiker, Kabarettist und freischaffender Künstler in Zürich.

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