Kurt Schwitters: Merz (2016) – Norman Rosenthal interviews Damien Hirst
Fully illustrated catalog published by Galerie Gmurzynska in collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire Zurich on the occasion of Kurt Schwitters: MERZ, a major retrospective exhibition celebrating 100 years of Dada. The exhibition builds and expands on the gallery’s five decade long exhibition history with the artist, featuring exhibition architecture by Zaha Hadid. Edited by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer. First of three planned volumes containing original writings by Kurt Schwitters, historical essays by Ernst Schwitters, Ad Reinhardt and Werner Schmalenbach as well as text contributions by Siegfried Gohr, Adrian Notz, Jonathan Fineberg, Karin Orchard, and Flavin Judd. Foreword by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer. Interview with Damien Hirst conducted by Norman Rosenthal. Includes full color plates and archival photographs. 174 pages, color and b/w illustrations. English. ISBN: 978-3-905792-33-1 The publication includes an Interview with Damien Hirst by Sir Norman Rosenthal about the importance of Kurt Schwitters's practice for Hirst's work.
Fully illustrated catalog published by Galerie Gmurzynska in collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire Zurich on the occasion of Kurt Schwitters: MERZ, a major retrospective exhibition celebrating 100 years of Dada. The exhibition builds and expands on the gallery’s five decade long exhibition history with the artist, featuring exhibition architecture by Zaha Hadid.
Edited by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer.
First of three planned volumes containing original writings by Kurt Schwitters, historical essays by Ernst Schwitters, Ad Reinhardt and Werner Schmalenbach as well as text contributions by Siegfried Gohr, Adrian Notz, Jonathan Fineberg, Karin Orchard, and Flavin Judd.
Foreword by Krystyna Gmurzynska and Mathias Rastorfer.
Interview with Damien Hirst conducted by Norman Rosenthal.
Includes full color plates and archival photographs.
174 pages, color and b/w illustrations.
English.
ISBN:
978-3-905792-33-1
The publication includes an Interview with Damien Hirst by Sir Norman Rosenthal about the importance of Kurt Schwitters's practice for Hirst's work.
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<strong>Kurt</strong> <strong>Schwitters</strong>, Pollfoss, 1947<br />
Oil and chalk on panel laid down on the artist’s mount, 17.2 x 17.2 cm<br />
Galerie Gmurzynska<br />
Surrealist Relief of 1943 and Heavy Relief of 1945, made in London. Then in the last two years<br />
of his life <strong>Schwitters</strong> was remarkably productive making collages and beginning the construction<br />
of a new <strong>Merz</strong>bau in the countryside – a “<strong>Merz</strong>barn,” as he called it. These last years extend<br />
the blossoming of the late style that first emerged in Norway as if the beautiful lakes and rugged<br />
mountains of the Lake District reminded him of the beauty of nature in Norway and formed<br />
a continuum with it in this thoughts. He even titled a little painting of 1947 Pollfoss – made<br />
in England but titled after a secluded inn by a waterfall and fishing streams near the fjords of<br />
Norway. Pollfoss is a tiny, remarkably free, sketchlike work with a gentle openness, in lyrical<br />
clouds of color. Was it advanced age and experience that brought <strong>Schwitters</strong> to the calmer unity<br />
in himself that we feel in Pollfoss? Or perhaps the expansiveness of nature that brought the<br />
discernable inner peace that defines these late works?<br />
87 SCHWITTERS: Tending the Enchanted Garden · by Jonathan Fineberg
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