Szeemann, Harald. (1933-2005), Müller, Grégoire. (b. 1947) & Trini, Tomasso. (b. 1937). "Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works - Concepts - Processes - Situations - Information) Exhibition Catalog". Bern: Kunsthalle Bern. 1969.
Softcover. 4to. 172 pp. Creasing to top edge of paper cover, small collection label upper left, else fine. Pages bound with metal clip and alphabetized with finger tabs. Produced in conjunction with Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works – Concepts – Processes – Situations – Information) an exhibition on 22 March - 27 April 1969 at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. The catalog presents each artist with their work, headshot, CV, and a short statement.
A new generation of artists such as Hanne Darboven, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Richard Long, Richard Serra, and Franz Erhard Walther were brought together and then distanced themselves from the social and mass-media focus of Pop Art and from the purist and self-referential Minimal Art of previous years. These artists concentrated on concepts, processes, and changeability, on ephemeral events or even solely on linguistic, photographic or numerical instructions or information. Art was viewed as a temporary process with an open-ended outcome that was largely determined by the materials used and did not necessarily result in a completed and “commodified” work. Or, as American sculptor Robert Morris put it, an “activity of change, of disorientation and shift, of violent discontinuity and mutability, of the willingness for confusion even in the service of discovering new perceptual modes.”
Szeemann, Harald. (1933-2005), Müller, Grégoire. (b. 1947) & Trini, Tomasso. (b. 1937). "Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works - Concepts - Processes - Situations - Information) Exhibition Catalog". Bern: Kunsthalle Bern. 1969.
Softcover. 4to. 172 pp. Creasing to top edge of paper cover, small collection label upper left, else fine. Pages bound with metal clip and alphabetized with finger tabs. Produced in conjunction with Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works – Concepts – Processes – Situations – Information) an exhibition on 22 March - 27 April 1969 at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. The catalog presents each artist with their work, headshot, CV, and a short statement.
A new generation of artists such as Hanne Darboven, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Richard Long, Richard Serra, and Franz Erhard Walther were brought together and then distanced themselves from the social and mass-media focus of Pop Art and from the purist and self-referential Minimal Art of previous years. These artists concentrated on concepts, processes, and changeability, on ephemeral events or even solely on linguistic, photographic or numerical instructions or information. Art was viewed as a temporary process with an open-ended outcome that was largely determined by the materials used and did not necessarily result in a completed and “commodified” work. Or, as American sculptor Robert Morris put it, an “activity of change, of disorientation and shift, of violent discontinuity and mutability, of the willingness for confusion even in the service of discovering new perceptual modes.”