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Categories: Action | Public Space
Works by Jochen Gerz:
2146 Stones – Monument Against Racism
Exhibition of Jochen Gerz Next to His Photographic Reproduction Auto-portrait 71 Pictures at an Exhibition The Berkeley Oracle The Dachau Project Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered The Head of M The Mouth that Paints The Trans-Sib. Prospect These Words are My Flesh IBM Colour Ribbon Life Marsyas (From Death, Out Of Life) Photo/Text 51 Purple Cross for absent now Revolution 1971 Calling to the Point of Exhaustion Writing by Hand Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams Video Opera House
Jochen Gerz
«Warning: Art Corrupts»
Gerz put up the sentence 'Attenzione l'Arte Corrompe' ('Warning; Art Corrupts'), sometimes in poster form, sometimes as a small card, around various European cities in the politically explosive year 1968. Thus, even Michelangelo's David in Florence was exposed to Jochen Gerz' critical commentary. Although one of Jochen Gerz' earliest works, his action foreshadows a number of aspects that would later emerge, such as the interconnection of text and image, criticism of spaces dedicated to art, intervention in the public domain.
