Sculpture Projects Münster. Svetlana Kopystiansky
Sculpture projects Münster 1997, Curators Kasper König and Klaus Bussmann).
www.skulptur-projekte-archiv.de/en-us/1997/projects/107/
For the part of the project titled “Ontology, or Things that Might Have Been” Svetlana Kopystiansky made 40 photographs from various selected objects: tools and materials which were used by different artists in a project for production of their artworks. These found objects were considered as finished art works, as sculptures. Images of each object were printed as black-and-white posters in multiple editions and were distributed around the city in various combinations. At the time of the photographs’ distribution, the objects no longer existed in their documented form.
For the part of her project titled “Travels and Leaves Behind,” over the period of one month Svetlana Kopystiansky made 40 photographs of various objects at the sites where they were found: tools and materials which were used by construction workers during the restoration of the Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Münster. All these objects were mass-produced and originally were identical in form to countless others. When they were photographed, however, their original forms had been altered by use and, thus, subjected to a process of “individualization” in which each object became absolutely unique in its new form. All of these objects were also exhibited in the museum as sculptures. Black-and-white photographs of these sculptural works were later exhibited during the Sculpture Project at the museum.
For the catalog, Svetlana Kopystiansky used texts from the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie from their entries concerning “Sculpture.”
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997
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Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997
Artists: Kim Adams, Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Georg Baselitz, Alighiero e Boetti, Christine Borland, Daniel Buren, Janet Cardiff, Maurizio Cattelan, Eduardo Chillida, Stephen Craig, Richard Deacon, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Maria Eichhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Paul-Armand Gette, Jef Geys, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Georg Herold, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rebecca Horn, Huang Yong Ping, Bethan Huws, Fabrice Hybert, Ilya Kabakov, Tadashi Kawamata, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Jeff Koons, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Sol LeWitt, Atelier van Lieshout, Olaf Metzel, Reinhard Mucha, Maria Nordmann, Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Jorge Pardo, Hermann Pitz, Marjetica Potrc, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Kurt Ryslavy, Karin Sander, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Yutaka Sone, Diana Thater, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Eulàlia Valldosera, Herman de Vries, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig
Sculpture Projects Münster. Svetlana Kopystiansky
Sculpture projects Münster 1997, Curators Kasper König and Klaus Bussmann).
www.skulptur-projekte-archiv.de/en-us/1997/projects/107/
For the part of the project titled “Ontology, or Things that Might Have Been” Svetlana Kopystiansky made 40 photographs from various selected objects: tools and materials which were used by different artists in a project for production of their artworks. These found objects were considered as finished art works, as sculptures. Images of each object were printed as black-and-white posters in multiple editions and were distributed around the city in various combinations. At the time of the photographs’ distribution, the objects no longer existed in their documented form.
For the part of her project titled “Travels and Leaves Behind,” over the period of one month Svetlana Kopystiansky made 40 photographs of various objects at the sites where they were found: tools and materials which were used by construction workers during the restoration of the Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Münster. All these objects were mass-produced and originally were identical in form to countless others. When they were photographed, however, their original forms had been altered by use and, thus, subjected to a process of “individualization” in which each object became absolutely unique in its new form. All of these objects were also exhibited in the museum as sculptures. Black-and-white photographs of these sculptural works were later exhibited during the Sculpture Project at the museum.
For the catalog, Svetlana Kopystiansky used texts from the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie from their entries concerning “Sculpture.”
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997
www.lwl.org/skulptur-projekte-download/muenster/97/kopyst...
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997
Artists: Kim Adams, Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Georg Baselitz, Alighiero e Boetti, Christine Borland, Daniel Buren, Janet Cardiff, Maurizio Cattelan, Eduardo Chillida, Stephen Craig, Richard Deacon, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Maria Eichhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Paul-Armand Gette, Jef Geys, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Georg Herold, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rebecca Horn, Huang Yong Ping, Bethan Huws, Fabrice Hybert, Ilya Kabakov, Tadashi Kawamata, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Jeff Koons, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Sol LeWitt, Atelier van Lieshout, Olaf Metzel, Reinhard Mucha, Maria Nordmann, Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Jorge Pardo, Hermann Pitz, Marjetica Potrc, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Kurt Ryslavy, Karin Sander, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Yutaka Sone, Diana Thater, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Eulàlia Valldosera, Herman de Vries, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig