This volume collects the eclectic art production of Martin Kippenberger during the period of 1976 to 1978, including his numerous letters to Gisela Stelly (with translations). It also features his photo mounts, with 75 photos of the 84 adventure paintings from the series ‘Un Tedesco in Firenze' (1977) and a 7 minute DVD excerpt from the film ‘Love and Adventure' by Gisela Stelly (1978), which features Kippenberger and others in police trench-coats and makeup performing an action within a subway station.
Kippenberger's paintings are based on newspaper and magazine cuttings, and on a painstakingly planned photographic series of unspectacular moments in Florence. Influenced at this time by Gerhard Richter, Kippenberger's work instead offered a "violent derailment in which the twin trains of subject matter and craftsmanship plough into one another... the exquisite aura of solemnity in the face of banality conjured by Gerhard Richter's technical perfection is trashed in an instant by Kippenberger" -- Rudolf Schmitz. Texts in parallel German and English including translated correspondence.