Mario Merz Livres

Ever since the Rudolf Steiner's panel drawings were first exhibited in a contemporary art context in the summer of 1992 at the Galerie Monika Sprüth in Cologne, they went on tour as the transmitter of an 'anthroposophy for the future' through the best known museums in the world. In addition to his paintings, drawings and sculptures, these panel pictures are clearly located at the junction between art and science, programmatically pointing to the key interrelationship between mankind and the cosmos. It was always Steiner's extraordinary way of seeing objects and non-objects that led to sustainable reform projects in such fields as agriculture, education and medicine. This book examines for the first time Anthroposophist thought as reflected in contemporary art and to what extent its integral concepts and aesthetic ideas are realized in the visual arts. This exhibition 'homage' to Rudolf Steiner features artworks by Joseph Beuys, Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson among many others. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, May - October 2010, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, February - May 2011. English text.

Erstmals nach ihrem gemeinsamen Auftritt vor einunddreißig Jahren bei der Weltausstellung der Kunst - der documenta VII (1982) in Kassel - werden Werke Arnulf Rainers und Mario Merz' wieder unter der Regie des international renommierten Ausstellungsmachers Rudi Fuchs wieder miteinander korrespondieren. Die großformatigen Gemälde Arnulf Rainers und die raumgreifenden Installationen und Bildobjekte Mario Merz' erzählen trotz all ihrer formalen Unterschiede eine gemeinsame Geschichte: jene von der Suche nach größtmöglicher künstlerischer Integrität, Authentizität und Freiheit.