Jochen Gerz
Subtitle: the walk : keine Retrospektive = the walk : no retrospective
By: herausgegeben von Söke Dinkla ; Konzept, Guido Meincke, Laurence Vanpoulle
Contributors: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg
Publisher: Verlag für Moderne Kunst; Verlag für moderne Kunst; Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wien
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9783903269729
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Walk :; Walk :; Jochen Gerz.; Jochen Gerz. English.
Description: Jochen Gerz has been working with new media since the end of the 1960s. After several contributions to the documenta and his participation (along with Beuys and Ruthenbeck) in the 39th Venice Biennale in 1976 (at the German Pavilion), since the mid-1980s he has been working in the public domain on social processes. The focus of his work is on the members of the public themselves, without whose participation his work would not be possible. The text-based installation THE WALK at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg leads over a pedestrian bridge along the institution's glass façade. The text to be read in it links the life and work of the artist, who was born in Berlin in 1949, and thus has participated in eight decades of history, as Jens Dirksen points out in his foreword. Questions are raised, questions about where the story is heading or how I am a part of it and of public life. Exhibition: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (23.09.2018 - 05.05.2019).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, September 23, 2018-May 5, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.