Autoportrait
French Wall # 9
CR 523. Year 1971
… We can see each of Gerz' work as a kind of self-portrait, a renewed skeptical positing of the definition of his identity and a confrontation with the inner "other", which activates structures of existence the underlying code of which he cannot reach. The skepticism frustrates the definition of the self's identity each time anew, and at the same time weaves the web of both artistic and his private existence.
Mordechai Omer 1995
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French Wall
Photographic opaque, 4 b/w photographs, white cardboard, black adhesive cloth tape, acrylic glass, wooden frame, 44 x 54 cm
See also the performance Selfportrait (27) and other Jochen Gerz selfportraits: 45, 109, 617, 674, 713, 714, 715, 716 and 838
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Exhibitions
Karlsruhe 1975 (Duisburg 1975/1976. Braunschweig 1976). Bonn 1982. Tel Aviv 1995. Nürnberg 1996/1997 (Düsseldorf 1997. Saint-Étienne 1997). Bonn 2001
Bibliography
I: Karlsruhe 1975, pp. 87, 145. Tel Aviv 1995, p. 16. Düsseldorf 1997, pp. 29-31
II: Red. 6, 1975