Albert Camus

Oggetti Artistici Di Metallo

King Stag

König Hirsch, ein 1762 verfasstes Stück des italienischen Theaterdichters Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), handelt von Liebe und Verschwörung am Hofe von König Deramo. Auf der Suche nach einer Braut fällt Deramo den Intrigen seines Widersachers Tartaglia zum Opfer und wird vorübergehend in einen Hirsch verwandelt. Anlässlich der grossen Werkbund-Ausstellung von 1918 in Zürich schufen der Schweizer Dramatiker René Morax (1873-1963) und der Regisseur Werner Wolff (1886-1972) eine Adaption von Gozzis Märchenspiel als amüsante Dada-Parodie auf Sigmund Freuds und Carl Gustav Jungs Psychoanalyse. Die Inszenierung war als Puppenspiel konzipiert, für das die Avantgarde-Künstlerin Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) die Bühnenbilder und ein Ensemble von 17 radikal abstrahierten Marionetten entwarf. Diese brachen mit jeder Tradition des Genres, geprägt durch Taeuber-Arps Schaffen in freier und angewandter Kunst und ihre Erfahrungen im zeitgenössischen Ausdruckstanz. Dieses englischsprachige Buch bietet erstmals den deutschen Originaltext von Morax' und Wolffs König-Hirsch- Adaption, illustriert mit neu aufgenommenen Fotografien von Taeuber-Arps ikonischen Marionetten. Essays renommierter Autor:innen widmen sich der Entstehung des Marionettenstücks von 1918 im historischen Kontext der künstlerischen Schweizer Avantgarde.

1. Bart Rutten
2. William Tucker
3. Ruud Kuijer

Kuijer-Rietveld

Eleven striking pairs of Rietveld’s furniture and sculptures by Ruud Kuijer Exhibition, Centraal Museum Utrecht For Kuijer, Rietveld / Rietveld, Kuijer, Dutch sculptor Ruud Kuijer (1959) curated eleven striking combinations of chairs from the famous Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) and his own sculptures. The focus is not on Rietveld as a designer, architect, or member of De Stijl, but specifically on the process of making a chair versus making a sculpture. Particularly, Rietveld’s early and lesser-known works reveal a making process rooted in the inherent properties of the materials used. In this approach Rietveld and Kuijer meet. For Kuijer, it has been a guiding principle of his abstract sculptures since the 1980s. Kuijer extensively studied the world’s largest collection of Rietveld furniture at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, choosing from over 300 Rietveld items and more than 480 sculptures from his own oeuvre. Each pairing highlights a specific, formal sculptural quality of a Rietveld chair. Ruud Kuijer further explored these ideas through an interview with British-American sculptor and art historian William Tucker, who specifically researched Rietveld’s early chairs in the context of modern sculpture. Together, they meticulously reviewed the selection of chairs and sculptures for this unique publication on the sculptural Rietveld.

Tihku

Visions of Nordic introspectiveness, occult pocket watches, suburban drifting, untamed forests and butterfly appreciation all come together in a sticky weave of cutting-edge Finnish comics storytelling. Tihku is a joint work by twelve artists and the first part in a series. Kutikuti is an association and collective of about sixty contemporary comic artists living in Finland. Tihku [/ˈtihku/, ˈt̪içku] - drizzle. Meteorologically, drizzle consists of small drops of precipitation about 1mm in diameter. Drizzle can be easily seen on your glasses but it doesn't make rings on puddles. Drizzle falls from banks of fog.

1. Chazen Museum of Art
2. Ann Smart , Martin

Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

American furniture and prints as well as English ceramics from an extraordinary Milwaukee collection tell stories of stylistic change, regional preference, solutions of technological problems, artisan-patron relations in a market economy, the new consumer impulse for more and different furnishings, and how Americans responded to English, European, Asian, and African influences. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery