Generously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken's remarkable
body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later
explosive assemblages. Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based
contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of
work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness.
In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded
material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy resin,
and mass-produced objects that range from action figures to
discarded pizza boxes. Her heterogeneous assemblages, a New York
Times critic observes, are "brash, improvisational, full of searing
color and attitude." Genzken, the recent subject of a major
retrospective at MoMA, offers a highly original interpretation of
modernist, avant-garde, and postminimalist practices even as she
engages pressing sociopolitics and economic issues of the present.
These illustrated essays address the full span of Genzken's work,
from the elegant floor sculptures with which she began her career
to the assemblages, bursting with color and bristling with
bric-a-brac, that she has produced since the beginning of the
millennium. The texts, by writers including Yve-Alain Bois,
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and the artist herself, consider her
formation in the West German milieu; her critique of conventions of
architecture, reconstruction, and memorialization; her sympathy
with mass culture; and her ongoing interrogation of public and
private spheres. Two texts appear in English for the first time,
including a quasi-autobiographical screenplay written by Genzken in
1993. Contributors Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Diedrich
Diederichsen, Hal Foster, Isa Genzken, Isabelle Graw, Lisa Lee,
Pamela M. Lee, Birgit Pelzer, Juliane Rebentisch, Josef Strau,
Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner Contents Isa Genzken: Two
Exercises (1974) * Birgit Pelzer: Axiomatics Subject to Withdrawal
(1979) * Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: The Fragment as Model
(1992) * Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus.
Architecture, Design, and Photography in Reverse (2014) * Isa
Genzken: Sketches for a Feature Film (1993) * Isabelle Graw: Free
to Be Dependent: Concessions in the Work of Isa Genzken (1996) *
Diedrich Diederichsen: Subjects at the End of the Flagpole (2000) *
Pamela M. Lee: The Skyscraper at Ear Level (2003) * Benjamin H. D.
Buchloh: All Things Being Equal (2005) * Wolfgang Tillmans: Isa
Genzken: A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans (2003) * Diedrich
Diederichsen: Diedrich Diederichsen in Conversation with Isa
Genzken (2006) * Lisa Lee: "Make Life Beautiful!" The Diabolic in
the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour Through Berlin, Paris, and New
York) (2007) * Lawrence Weiner: Isa Genzken Again (2010) * Juliane
Rebentisch: The Dialectic of Beauty: On the Work of Isa Genzken
(2007) * Yve-Alain Bois: The Bum and the Architect (2007) * Josef
Strau: Isa Genzken: Sculpture as Narrative Urbanism (2009) * Hal
Foster: Fantastic Destruction (2014)
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