Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1997. Editors Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa write in their introduction, "Unbuilt Roads," that "... endeavors in the visual arts that are planned but not carried out ordinarily remain unnoticed or little known. During the phase in which 'Unbuilt Roads' took shape we frequently asked ourselves why such a book had never been done before [...] There are many different reasons why the planned projects presented in 'Unbuilt Roads' have not been carried out. The following are some of the most representative variations : 1. Public commissions not fulfilled for political, technical or economics reasons. These include primarily projects that were postponed, censored or rejected for a variety of reasons as well as unrealized commissioned works or those that failed to win competitions. 2. 'Desk-drawer projects' developed by artists on their own without reference to a particular commission. Many of these planned undertakings were either forgotten or rejected by the artists themselves." Includes documentation of unrealized projects by Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Siah Armajani, John Armleder, Lothar Baumgarten, Larry Bell, Guillaume Bijl, Dara Birnbaum, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Brossa, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Cai Guo Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Dinos Chapman, Jake Chapman, Christo, Jean-Claude, Constant, Critical Art Ensemble, Stefan Demary, Erik Dietman, Jimmie Durham, Maria Eichhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fend, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Katharina Fritsch, Gautel / Karaindros, Frank O. Gehry, Richard Serra, General Idea, Isa Genzken, Paul-Armand Gette, Jef Geys, Gilbert & George, Simryn Gill, Liam Gillick, Leon Golub, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Joseph Grigely, Victor Grippo, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Ulrike Holthöfer, Huang Yong Ping, Pierre Huyghe, Fabrice Hybert, Robert Irwin, Ilya Kabakov, Allan Kaprow, Tadashi Kawamata, Per Kirkeby, Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau, Alison Knowles, Koo Jeong-A., Jannis Kounellis, David Lamelas, Bertrand Lavier, Ange Leccia, Lee Ufan, Sol LeWitt, Gilles Mahé, Christian Marclay, Fabio Mauri, Cildo Meireles, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Tania Mouraud, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Giuseppe Penone, Manfred Pernice, Steven Pippin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Hermann Pitz, Markus Raetz, Robert Rauschenberg, Tobias Rehberger, Jason Rhoades, Raymond Pettibone, Ulrich Rückriem, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Joe Scanlan, Gregor Schneider, Gary Simmons, Yutaka Sone, Nancy Spero, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosmarie Trockel, Uri Tzaig, Herman De Vries, Jeff Wall, Lois Weinberger, Richard Wentworth, Franz West, Stephen Willats, Jeffrey Wisniewski, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Jonas Mekas. Text primarily in English and German.
