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Under Destruction
Berlin: Distanz Verlag
2011
Publication to document a group show entitled Under Destruction, presenting today’s aesthetic potential of destruction. 20 international artists investigate the role of destruction in contemporary art. Reflected from different angles, destructivity can be anything ranging from a creative act to a memento mori of the environment, from prosperity trash to a poetic transformation.
Published by Tinguely Museum, Basel and Swiss Institute, New York
Editors: Gianni Jetzer, Chris Sharp
Texts by Barbara Casavecchia, Boris Groys, Martin Herbert, Justin Hoffmann, Gianni Jetzer, Piper Marshall, Chris Sharp, Roland Wetzel, Michael Wilson
Language: German/English
Design: Li Inc. New York, 24 × 28 cm, 136 pages, approx. 100 color images, Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-942405-17-1
