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During his storied, 25-year career. Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) assaulted and transformed the art world, casting himself as provocateur, jester, carouser, philosopher, musician, instructor and artist. He was one of the most important cultural figures of his generation, whose influence and impact has only increased since his death. Book jacket.
An illuminating study of the work of artist Martin Kippenberger, whose art expressed the enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class. Martin Kippenberger: Everything Is Everywhere is the first scholarly monograph in English on West German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997), one of the most prominent German artists of the 1980s. In this book, Chris Reitz shows that the condition of Kippenberger’s art was an endless, enthusiastic searching, constrained by the impossibility of fulfillment. A child during West Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, and a young adult during the economic recession and political tumult of the 1970s, Kipp...
On Kippenberger's utopian portals into an imaginary global transportation system In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger (1953-97) developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist's most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form. In 1993, a metro entrance was built on the Greek island of Syros, followed by two more: one in 1995, in Dawson City in Canada, and the other in 1997, on the new Leipzig exhibition grounds. These structures proposed a means of traveling in the boundless space of the imagination: without the willingness to visualize tunnel tubes and moving underground trains, this project remains a "nonsensical building plan." But the moment we accept the artwork as a mode of transport for "mind travelers," then the full power of this work unfolds. Documented in this volume, Kippenberger's METRO-Netwas intended to counter life's predictable, rationally oriented parameters with a romantic sense of the world.
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A selection of hotel stationery designed by Kippenberger.
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Martin Kippenberger ISBN 3-8321-7579-2 / 978-3-8321-7579-5 Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 184 pgs / 210 color and 16 b&w. / U.S. $50.00 CDN $60.00 August / Art
Artwork by Martin Kippenberger.
The first individual exhibition of the German artist Martin Kippenberger (Dortmund 1953 ? Vienna 1997) at a Spanish museum displays a total of one hundred paintings, sculptures and drawings. The works are selected from two of the finest collections of the artist's work in the world: those of publisher Benedikt Taschen and fellow-artist Albert Oehlen. Kippenberger's art has been posthumously exhibited at several of the most important artistic events of the last few decades, including the Documenta X in Kassel, Germany; the Skulptur in M'nster, Germany; the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland; and, most recently, museum shows in Karlsruhe, Germany, Vienna, Austria and Eindhoven, the Netherlands.