Martin Kippenberger : Mensch Geht Mir Ein Licht Auf. Gut Ausgeleuchtete vorweihnachtliche Ausstellung an Leopoldstrasse [ A Light Switches on for me. Well-lit pre-Christmas Exhibition on Leopoldstrasse ]
  • artists' book
  • wrappers with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 29.7 x 21 cm.
  • [42] pp.
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Martin Kippenberger : Mensch Geht Mir Ein Licht Auf. Gut Ausgeleuchtete vorweihnachtliche Ausstellung an Leopoldstrasse [ A Light Switches on for me. Well-lit pre-Christmas Exhibition on Leopoldstrasse ]

Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger : Mensch Geht Mir Ein Licht Auf. Gut Ausgeleuchtete vorweihnachtliche Ausstellung an Leopoldstrasse [ A Light Switches on for me. Well-lit pre-Christmas Exhibition on Leopoldstrasse ]

description

Artist's book / exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show "Gut ausgeleuchtete vorweihnachtliche Austellung an Leopoldstrasse" [Well-Lit pre-Christmas Exhibition on Leopoldstrasse], held December 11, 1991 - January 31, 1992. Profusely illustrated with installation images of Kippenberger's lamp sculptures as well as reproductions of a seven page handwritten letter on hotel stationary from someone Kippenberger had offended with a crude drunken speech at a restaurant. Cover photograph is of Cosima von Bonin, Karola Grässlin, Petra Hammerstein and Andreas Höhne singing karaoke.

references

No. 302 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. 133.
No. 108 in "Annotated Catalogue Raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger : 1977 - 1997" by Uwe Koch, Diedrich Diederichsen, Robert Ohrt. New York / Köln, NY / Germany : Distributed Art Publishers / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003, pp. 250 - 251.
München, Germany: Kunstraum Daxer,
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$350.00
Condition:  Good. Bumping of upper right corner and water staining to interior pages and to inside of dust-jacket. Bumping of bottom left corner of publication. Rippling of pages on bottom right corner of publication throughout, yellowing to edges of pages, 6 mm. yellow stain on title page. Creasing of recto dust-jacket.
[Object # 36649]