In the words of Peter Schjeldahl, writing in The New Yorker about
the exhibition No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989 at David
Zwirner in New York, "the show's cast of artists amounts to a
retrospective shopping list of what would matter and endure in art
of the era." With an eye to canonizing that moment, this seminal
publication examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens
of international art scenes that were based in Cologne-arguably the
European center of the contemporary art world at that time-and New
York. While a number of established Cologne-based gallerists,
including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner,
and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European
reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked
a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne
gained international attention. A burgeoning gallery scene
supported the emerging work of artists based in the region, with
gallerists such as Gisela Capitain, Rafael Jablonka, Max Hetzler,
and Monika Spruth showing artists such as Walter Dahn, Martin
Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, and others. The
works of these German artists were exhibited along with the latest
contemporary art from the US by artists like Robert Gober, Jeff
Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool.
Conversely, the works of German artists were presented in New York,
with breakout exhibitions at galleries such as Barbara Gladstone,
Metro Pictures, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, and other
significant venues. Important museum exhibitions that explored work
being produced and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic also set
the tone for this ongoing dialogue, among them Europa / Amerika
(Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1986) and A Distanced View: One Aspect of
Recent Art from Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland (New Museum,
New York, 1986). Big, bold, and vibrant, this Pentagram-designed
publication revives the conversation, reproducing in full color
over one hundred immensely varied artworks by the twenty-two
international artists included in this massive exhibition-one of
the largest in David Zwirner's history. Beyond its stunning visual
components, the book features crucial new scholarship by Diedrich
Diederichsen and Bob Nickas, and an illustrated chronology of the
decade by Kara Carmack. The book also includes an arsenal of
compelling archival material, from documentary photographs from the
period to reproductions of Cologne's culture magazine Spex. Taken
as a whole, this ambitious exhibition catalogue encapsulates the
energy, heart, and "dissonance of styles"-in the words of
Schjeldahl-embodied by this fascinating and fecund moment in global
art history. Artists featured in the book include Werner Buttner,
George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli/David
Weiss, Gunther Foerg, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Jenny Holzer,
Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger,
Sherrie Levine, Albert Oehlen, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince,
Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool.
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