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>, who knew a lot of people and whom many of his acquaintances have described, was a<br />
multifaceted personality which, in view of his life’s work as an artist and poet, scarcely comes as a surprise.<br />
His companion, Hannah Höch, said: “It is not at all possible to approach in a few words such a complicated and<br />
contradictory person like <strong>Schwitters</strong>. An artist through and through, obsessed with art, uninhibited in the use of<br />
his artistic means like no other in his time. And, along with that, his bourgeois, even petit-bourgeois shell was<br />
nevertheless genuine.” This can be supplemented by a description from Marguerite Hagenbach, the later wife<br />
of Arp: “Hans said to me that <strong>Schwitters</strong> was one of his best friends, a great poet, but a little crazy. After the<br />
Urlaut-Sonate that <strong>Schwitters</strong> had brilliantly recited [in Basel], he came to me and said, ‘It seems to me that<br />
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