Red or Real Life

Rot oder das wirkliche Leben

Rouge ou la vraie vie

CR 331. Year 1986/1987

Red Or Real Life Jochen Gerz Cr 331 Web

"Red or Real Life" is the story of a year in which "nothing happens", but which is nonetheless no different from the others.

Mixed Media Photograph

9 framed b+w photographs, 1 framed text (typed on paper, enlarged photograph), each 40,5 x 50,5 cm, 1 monochrome red color photograph, 20 x 50,5 cm, total 278 x 214 cm

The text is typed in three languages.

Museum Wiesbaden.

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 1988. Leverkusen 1990. Reims 1990

Bibliography

I: Kassel 1987a, p. 76. København 1988, p. 32. Leverkusen 1990, pp. 4-6. Paris 1994a, p. 49

II: Schmidt-Wulffen 2, 1987, pp. 188-198. Honnef 1988, p. 32. Thomas 1989, Pejic 1992, p. 83

III: Rogendörfer 1990, p. 230

V: Buchwald 1, 1989, pp. 122-123. Wolf 1992, pp. 131-134

VI: Düsseldorf 1997, p. 156

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My name is Jochen Gerz