In Freundschaft für Günther Uecker (“In friendship for Günther Uecker”) is a tribute to the artist on his 95th birthday by colleagues, students, curators and collectors. The friendship book brings together personal stories about selected works, poems, photos, drawings and memories.
Authors: Stephan Keller, Antonia Lehmann-Tolkmitt, Detlef Hunsdiek, Marion Ackermann, Ingrid Bachér, Friderike Bagel, Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Till Breckner und Afshin Derambakhsh, Gil Bronner, Tony Cragg, Leopold von Diergardt, Felix Droese, Ulrich Erben, Joachim Gauck, Claus Gielisch, Elizabeth Goldring-Piene, Benjamin Katz, Felix Krämer, Kitty Kemr, Norbert Lammert, Sabine Langen-Crasemann und Karla Zerressen, Anna mit Alexander und George Lenz, Heinz Mack, Stephanie Mayer, Christian Megert, Volker Mischok, Matias Möller, Cathrine und Manfred Pape, Hermann Parzinger, Robert und Irmgard Rademacher, Jochen Saueracker, Wolf Schäfer, Ulrike Schmitt, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Axel Vervoordt, Stephan von Wiese und Constanze Kleiner, Jürgen Wilhelm, Oliver Wolleh.
Preview: Contributions by Joachim Gauck, Oliver Wolleh and Tony Cragg for In Freundschaft für Günther Uecker
Concept: Barbara Könches
Editorial team: Catrin Hüske, Barbara Könches, Antonia Lehmann-Tolkmitt, Jürgen Wilhelm
Graphic Design: Tipogris Books and Brands, Neuss
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German, multilingual
March 2025, 72 pages
Hardcover, 21 cm x 29,7 cm
Pricing:
> Numbered: 35 € (limited to 300 copies)
> non numbered: 25 € (limited to 100 copies)
plus a shipping fee of €7 (Germany-wide, others to be determined). Collecting your book from the ZERO house is also possible. Please contact us if you wish to do so.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to info@zerofoundation.de. We will confirm your order, issue an invoice and send your copy after payment.
ZERO-Kunst und Mode (“ZERO art and fashion”)
ZERO was a new beginning. At the end of the 1950s, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker questioned traditional art. This also applies to fashion. The renowned expert Barbara Vinken shows that both share a conceptual interest that sometimes playfully and wittily, sometimes crazy and shifted, threw conventions overboard. Always emphasizing the performative in art, the combination of objects made of light and movement is shown here: from the fashion creations of Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein to the “ZERO dress”. With this publication, the ZERO foundation dedicates itself to a completely unexplored topic. Artworks and documents from the ZERO avant-garde are compiled, contextualized and presented from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Author: Barbara Vinken
Editor: Barbara Könches for ZERO foundation
Graphic Design: Neil Holt, Köln
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Berlin
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German
January 2025, 72 pages, 47 illustrations
Klappenbroschur, 14,2 cm x 2,10 cm
Price: 18 €
plus a shipping fee of 3 € (Germany-wide, others to be determined). Collecting your book from the ZERO house is also possible. Please contact us if you wish to do so.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to info@zerofoundation.de. We will confirm your order, issue an invoice and send your copy after payment.
“Opening the Archive: The ABCs of ZERO”
For the ZERO avant-garde, traditional conceptions of art could be challenged through transforming the atelier into an exhibition space and disseminating their art through books. In this manner they made friends with the representatives of Concrete Poetry. A diagram visualizes who they thought to be part of the movement: those who were open to experimentation and those were not afraid to work with fire; even in the galleries, few of which were willing to pay homage to the avant-garde at this time. International thinking united the young artists of the 1950s and 60s, whose network extended from Düsseldorf to Milan, Brussels, Paris, and Zagreb. Kinetics and light replaced brushes and canvases, and new music played in the background. They also tried to get closer to nature through the concept of the Open Artwork.
In The ABCs of ZERO, writers, scholars, and authors from the fields of art, music, sociology and theater tell the story of this art movement—from A for atelier to Z for ZERO. Featuring a wealth of photos and documents from an era just emerging from the ruins, but facing the future with optimism, this book recalls a historical moment of peaceful utopia in Europe.
Authors: Iwona Dorota Bigos, Barbara Büscher, Romina Dümler, Rudolf Frisius, Eugen Gomringer, Ann-Kathrin Illmann, Barbara Könches, Bartomeu Marí, Marco Meneguzzo, Leonard Merkes, Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, Matthieu Poirier, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Sophia Sotke, Anna-Lena Weise, Rebecca Welkens, Andreas Joh. Wiesand, Jürgen Wilhelm, Regina Wyrwoll
Editor: Barbara Könches for ZERO foundation
Image Editing: Anna-Lena Weise and Rebecca Welkens
Graphic Design: Digibox GmbH, Düsseldorf
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Berlin
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English
October 2024, 492 pages, 260 illustrations
Hardcover, 20,2 cm x 21,2cm
Price: 58 €plus a shipping fee of 7 € (Germany-wide, others to be determined). Collecting your book from the ZERO house is also possible. Please contact us if you wish to do so.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to info@zerofoundation.de. We will confirm your order, issue an invoice and send your copy after payment.
