Martin Kippenberger : Bermuda Triangle
  • exhibition catalogue
  • boxed edition
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white & color
  • 23.5 x 17 cm.
  • 72 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9781891027161

Martin Kippenberger : Bermuda Triangle

Syros, Paris Bar, and Dawson City

Martin Kippenberger, Tim Nye, Carol Eckman, David Nolan, Michael Würthle

Martin Kippenberger : Bermuda Triangle

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"Martin Kippenberger's trickster aesthetic was aided and abetted by the owners of his famed Berlin hangout, the Paris Bar. One proprietor, Michael Würthle, provided Kippenberger with a place to make art at his family's house on the island of Syros, Greece; the other, Reinald Nohal, owned a summer retreat in Canada's Yukon Territory, which the artist visited. In those two remote locations, Kippenberger conceived his worldwide subway network, Metro-Net, and built the first two entrances, should anyone decide to do the rest of the underground excavation and construction. The Bermuda Triangle documents in detail the planning and execution of this piece by the late high-art prankster, and reproduces the varied, accomplished, sometimes hilarious, and devastatingly human drawings from the 80s and 90s, mostly on hotel stationery, from Würthle's collection. Its witty design is one Kippenberger would certainly have appreciated, its two volumes accompanied by a "guerrilla marketing kit" of two posters and an "I [heart] Kippenberger" bumper sticker, all contained in a cardboard box that converts to a display stand. Edited by Tim Nye. Essays by Carol Eckman and David Nolan, and Michael Würthle." -- publisher's statement. 110 color, 11 black-and-white and 2 duotone illustrations.

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