Tourner le dos aux médias
Den Medien den Rücken kehren
CR 619. Year 1972
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Die Gegend besaß wenig, was einen Abstecher gerechtfertigt hätte. Die Ortschaften waren mit dem Beginn des Jahrhunderts verarmt, die wenigen Fabriken – meist Sägereien – hatten das Land nach der ...
A connection with life, i.e. with human existence in all its complexity and everydayness, has stamped its mark on Jochen Gerz's work since he fist began. It also brings out the specific way that the artist considers the media.
Friedemann Malsch 2002
L’histoire des autres - inatteignable en tant que passée - s’atteint en tant que mémoire revisité au présent.
Octave Debary 2019
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Single work
Wooden crate, 33.5 x 70 x 27.5 cm, 2 b/w photographs and photographic opaque on cardboard in plastic wrap, text (handwriting), brush, photographic opaque on cardboard in plastic wrap, frame, 45.6 x 70.5 x 3 cm, verso signed: J. Gerz Tourner le dos aux médias
See the Single Work Stamp Holder (623) and the editions of the same title (762 and 774).
Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne.
Exhibitions
Kiel 1974. Karlsruhe 1975 (Duisburg 1975. Braunschweig 1976). Düsseldorf 1988 (Wien 1989. Jouy-en-Josas 1989. Hamburg 1989. St. Etienne 1989). St. Étienne 1995
Bibliography
I: Kiel 1974, pp. 12-13. Bielefeld 1985, p. 25, 195. Düsseldorf 1988, pp. 78-79. St. Étienne 1995, pp. 158-159, 272. Bozano 1999. Bordeaux 2003, p. 241
II: Metken 1975, p. 142
V: Metken 1977, p. 124