Overview
- Der legendäre Architekt Ken Adam und die bekannte Künstlerin Katharina Fritsch im Gespräch mit erfolgreichen Kuratoren
- Neuer Band der erfolgreichen Reihe „Art and Architecture in Discussion"
- Diskurs an der Schnittstelle von Architektur, Kunst und Setdesign
Part of the book series: Kunst und Architektur im Gespräch Art and Architecture in Discussion (KA)
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About this book
Ken Adams geniale Setdesigns für die frühen Bondfilme sind legendär. Heute haben sie Kultstatus und werden in Museen ausgestellt. Der Aston Martin, die hyperrealistische Simplizität von Ford Knox in Goldfinger, aber auch der War Room in Stanley Kubricks Dr. Strangelove sind alle Meilensteine der Filmgeschichte und Teil des kollektiven Bildgedächtnisses geworden. Ebenso bildhaft und einprägsam sind die enigmatischen Skulpturen der Künstlerin Katharina Fritsch, die kollektive Ängste thematisieren, sei es der Rattenkönig oder Mann und Maus.
Fritschs und Adams Bildfindungen weisen erstaunliche formale Parallelen auf. In einem Generationen übergreifenden, immer wieder überraschenden Gespräch werden viele weitere unerwartete Verbindungen zwischen der Künstlerin und dem Designer deutlich. Das Gespräch über Film, Kunst, Arbeitsprozesse und Mentalitäten moderierte Bice Curiger, Kuratorin am Kunsthaus Zürich und Herausgeberin des Kunstmagazins Parkett und Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kurator und Co-Direktor an der Serpentine Gallery, London.
About the authors
Ken Adam, set designer, was born in 1923 in Berlin. He moved to London with his parents in1934. Ken Adam was a pilot for the Royal Air Force during WWII. He studied architecture after the war. He began working as a film set designer in 1950s, and his work for Bond films includes Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965) und You Only Live Twice (1967). He also worked on Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
Cristina Bechtler, editor, is the founder of Ink Tree Editions, an art book, portfolio and contemporary art edition publishing house. She conceives and publishes the "Art and Architecture in Discussion" series. This series includes discussions with Frank O. Gehry/Kurt W. Forster, Rémy Zaugg/Herzog & de Meuron, Mario Merz/Mario Botta; Jacques Herzog/Jeff Wall/Philip Ursprung, Vito Acconci/Kenny Schachter/Lilian Pfaff, John Baldessari/Liam Gillick/Lawrence Weiner/Beatrix Ruf and Thomas Demand/Peter Saville/Hedi Slimane/Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Bice Curiger, art historian and curator, studied art history, folklore and literary criticism at Zurich University. She worked as a curator and art critic during the 1970s. She co-founded Parkett in 1984 and has been its editor-in-chief since then. She has served as a permanent curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich since 1993, where she curated exhibitions such as Endstation Sehnsucht (1994), Birth of the Cool (1997), Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer (1997), and The Expanded Eye (2006). She has been the editor of TATE ETC., published by the Tate Gallery, London, since 2005.
Katharina Fritsch, artist, was born in 1956 in Essen, Germany. She studied history and art history in Münster. She also studied under Fritz Schwegler at the Dusseldorf Art Academy between 1977 and 1984. She has been a professor of sculpture at the Münster Academy of Art (School of Applied Arts) since 2001. Soloexhibitions of her work have been held at the Kunsthalle Basel, ICA London (1988), Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993), Tate Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001). She won the Art Award of the City of Aachen in 1995 and the 2008 Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture.
Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in 1968 in Zurich. He worked as a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and has curated many exhibitions worldwide. He has served as the co-director, exhibitions and programs and director of international projects an der Serpentine Gallery, London since 2006. He is the editor of the The Conversation Series, Do it, dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop book series and a number of other publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Style and Scale, or: Do You Have Anxiety?
Book Subtitle: A Conversation with Ken Adam, Cristina Bechtler, Katharina Fritsch and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Moderated by Bice Curiger
Authors: Ken Adam, Katharina Fritsch, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bice Curiger
Series Title: Kunst und Architektur im Gespräch Art and Architecture in Discussion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99216-6
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Science (German Language)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2009
Series ISSN: 1613-5865
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 120
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Architecture, general, Design, general