• artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 43 x 28 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and numbered

Forty Found Fakes

Ernst Caramelle

description

A collection of found newspaper clippings that resemble works by some of Caramelle's contemporaries, including Daniel Buren, Panamarenko, Duane Hanson, Christo, Chris Burden, Palermo, Christian Boltanski, Antonio Muntadas, Hans Haacke, Klaus Rinke, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Richard Long, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Ferdinand Kriwet, Walter de Maria, Roy Lichtenstein, Hamish Fulton, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Nam June Paik, Jean Le Gac, Stephan Wewerka, Fluxus, Gerhard Richter, Hans Peter Feldmann, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Arman, Friedericke Petzold, Bruno Gironcoli, Richard Serra, Joseph Kosuth, Ralph Gibson, Michael Heizer, Vito Acconci, Laszlo Lakner, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Don Judd, Hermann Nitsch. With short text in parallel English / German; original German by the artist, translated by Ann Wilson. "The title of this work is basically as much of a fake as are the newspaper clippings collected here. This is not a collection of imitations of artworks, but rather of reproductions which at first glance strike one as works by particular contemporary artists. But these works could only be designated fakes if they represent works not yet made by the artist, since the artists in question are still living. These fakes therefore precede their originals and have, so to speak, out-distanced them. Therefore, one could possibly confuse these reproductions of artworks which the respective artist did not make with his actual work, or one might find oneself giving credit to a particular artist for having created one or another of these pieces." -- Ernest Carmelle, artist's statement. Illustrated in black-and-white.

references

No. 090 in "Die Bücher der Künstler : Publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland" by Michael Glasmeier. London / Frankfurt, United Kingdom / German : Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1994, pp. 61.
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