Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fabrizio Plessi. Lyquid Labyrinth, Budapest (Hungary), Ludwig Museum, January – April 2014 / Koblenz (Germany), Ludwig Museum, June – August 2014
With contributions from Beate Reifenscheid and Anna Bálványos
Ed. Beate Reifenscheid
German/English
24 x 28.5 cm, 144 pages, 100 colour illustrations
Silvana Editoriale, 2014
ISBN 9788836628629
Fabrizio Plessi (Reggio Emilia, 1940) is one of the most remarkable and most popular Italian contemporary artists, who is foremost known for his large size, spectacular video installations. In his artworks Fabrizio Plessi merges modern technology – moving image and sound – with the simplest materials like wood or stone, in a most natural way. His spectacular works, often of large dimensions, usually exercise a deep impact on the audience, and it is almost impossible to remain unaffected.
A special feature of this exhibition – displayed at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest and Koblenz – is going to be an installation titled Liquid Labyrinth, that has never been exhibited anywhere else before. Another artwork Llaüt Light calls our attention to a current social problem: on Mallorca, which is the artist’s second home, old fishing boats were destroyed for reasons of environment protection. The conflict between sustainable development and tradition is actually present in all domains of human life. Plessi’s work facilitates collective thinking and discussion on issues of nature and society and helps to find adequate solutions.
Exhibition: Budapest (Hungary), Ludwig Museum, January – April 2014 / Koblenz (Germany), Ludwig Museum, June – August 2014
Ed. by Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Pascale Le Thorel, and others
French / German
373 p., colour illustrations throughout, bound, 22 x 28 cm
Actes Sud, 2010
ISBN: 978-2-7427-8735-7
This comprehensive work provides an overview of the bulk of Peter Klasen’s work. Born in Lübeck (born 1935), he moved to Paris after his studies at the Berlin Art Academy, where both solo and group exhibitions were shown. Later, his work cycles could be seen all over the world. His highly political works dealt with the Berlin Wall and Hiroshima, among other things. Sabine Glaubitz wrote about this: “For Klasen, narrative figuration, which was influenced by the language of Pop Art, offered the possibility of implementing motifs from the new technical world – machines and constructions – in his compositions. His pictures are of a cool, impersonal, photo-like formal language, some of which represent objects from the modern consumer world in collage form. Like many of the artists of “Figuration narrative”, he has been inspired by photos from daily newspapers, magazines and film posters. (Text German, French)
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 30 August 2009 – 1 November 2009.
With contributions from Christiane Morsbach, Enrico Pedrini, Barbara Räderscheidt, Dieter Ronte , Wieland Schmied , Daniel Spoerri.
Ed. by Beate Reifenscheid
German/English
144 pages
Publisher Kerber ART, 2009
ISBN: 978-3866783423
Daniel Spoerri was a co-signatory of the Manifesto of Nouveau Réalisme in Paris in 1960 and founded the “Restaurant Spoerri” in Düsseldorf in 1968, where he founded his concept of “Eat Art” – a new theme in everyday culture revolving around food, its creation and passing away. To this day, the Eat Art he defined is connected with concepts that he already designed in the room he rented in the Hotel Carcassonne in Paris from 1959 to 1965 and developed further to the “Fallenbildern”, the “Tableaux-pièges” for which he is famous today. This publication presents the replica of the Paris room created by the artist and numerous original trap pictures from 1978 to 1992, supplemented by current assemblages of the so-called day boxes as well as life-size bronzes or sculptures.
Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition “Hermann-Josef Kuhna, Vom Anbeginn”, Ludwig-Museum, Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz 29 October to 3 December 2006.
Ed. by Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Beate Reifenscheid
German / French
152 pages, numerous illustrations
DruckVerlag Kettler 2006
ISBN: 978-3939825081
Catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz 01.05. – 12.06.2005. (Further stations: Kiscelli Museum Budapest, 2005. national gallery Prague, 2006. German Foundation Lausanne, 2006)
With texts by Beate Reifenscheid and an interview by Werner Meyer.
Edited by Beate Reifenscheid
German/English
78 pages
modo publishing house, Freiburg, 2006
ISBN-10: 3937014187
ISBN-13: 978-3937014180
