Völcan.

Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net

Kai Hammermeister

Ohio State University

Abstract: This article proposes a conceptual framework for an emerging aesthetics of globalization by analyzing a sculptural installation created by Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997). Metro-Net is a global sculpture the elements of which can found in Germany, Greece, Japan, and the USA and which also includes segments without a fixed location. Consisting of nonfunctional subway entries, Metro-Net celebrates a global connectedness and simultaneously frustrates the visitor’s desire to be elsewhere. These mutually contradictory modes of reception evoke the notion of Romantic irony which declares a nonconceptual truth to emerge out of the infinite back and forth between equally tenable positions, thus becoming fruitful for a concept of aesthetic globalization. (KH)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/monatshefte/v099/99.1hammermeister.html

"…bookstores are human places—they are extensions of the personalities of the men and women who..."

marinefroeliger — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:03:12 -0400

“…bookstores are human places—they are extensions of the personalities of the men and women who operate them. This is the point of Krauss’s essay that still very much obtains: bookstores are, in her word, “thoughtful.” Thoughtful may mean wise, but it doesn’t have to; it doesn’t even have to mean rational (everyone has been in bookstores that were clearly run by crazy people—often they’re the best ones). It simply means organized by individual minds. And to the extent that we believe we can learn from other people—a belief fundamental to the very practice of reading—bookstores will have something to give us.”

- Sam Sacks, on curating a bookstore

If you want a sense of how Open Books does things, read this!
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euliss: Dieter Roth at Fruitmarket Gallery

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euliss:

Dieter Roth at Fruitmarket Gallery

borogovesss: alexebstein

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borogovesss:

alexebstein

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jérémie gindre.

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jérémie gindre.

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thomas hirschhorn.

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thomas hirschhorn.

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thomas hirschhorn.

thomas hirshhorn.

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thomas hirshhorn.

baptiste demonbourg.

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baptiste demonbourg.