
Magazine, German, Staple Binding, 32 Pages, 1990
Franz West
Rare BookThe magazine publishes exclusively artist-designed issues in small editions.
Over the past decade it has established itself as an international collector’s object, characterized by its emphasis on artistic authorship, limited circulation and experimental formats.
The contribution engages with a practice that spans collage, furniture, performance, site-specific sculpture and installation. Central to this work is an ongoing concern with communication and interaction through art, as well as with the active relationship between the viewer and the artwork. Rather than presenting art as a closed object, the work repeatedly invites participation, use and response.
As Vittorio V. Gioia has observed, a consistent element of this practice can be described as a form of “communicative provocation.” This involves a critical stance toward generalization, in which provisional responses to complex questions are tested—responses that may hold for an extended period, for a fleeting moment, or not at all. In this sense, the work operates as an open field of negotiation between artist, object and audience.




















