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The book, which on the wall is a work of art, taken in the hand becomes the catalog of its own exhibition – and regardless of these options is simply a book.

Dagmar Varady
Paolo Bianchi, Roger M. Buergel, Hubertus Gaßner,
Michael Hagner, Stephanie Jacobs, Bernd Kauffmann,
Werner Oechslin, Vanessa Simili, Thomas Weiß

In Cooperation with the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library, Leipzig

38 x 28 cm
48 pages
30 photos
German
Leporello in slipcase
ISBN 978-3-903101-72-2
November 2023

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Authors

  • Bernd Kauffmann

    President of the Weimar Classicism Foundation until 2001, General Representative of the Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation until 2016, lives in Berlin. more

  • Dagmar Varady

    Artist and foundation founder, searches for the "knowledge-producing" moments in her artistic approach to libraries as a medium of knowledge. more

  • Hubertus Gassner

    Professor of Art History, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle until 2016, describes in his essay the move of his private [...] more

  • Michael Hagner

    Professor of Science Studies at ETH Zurich, his research interests include the history of the human sciences and the history [...] more

  • Paolo Bianchi

    Curator, cultural publicist, and creativity researcher, circles around fundamental questions about the acquisition of knowledge in his conversation with Roger [...] more

  • Roger M. Buergel

    Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, museum founder and director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich. more

  • Stephanie Jacobs

    Cultural historian and museum director of the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library, Leipzig. In [...] more

  • Thomas Weiss

    Art historian, director and chairman of the Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz until 2017, addresses in his essay the microcosm of the private [...] more

  • Werner Oechslin

    Architectural historian and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, founder of the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, lives in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. more

Details

Kunst.Werk.Buch

“Kunst.Werk.Buch” designates a kind of world interior space and means that there is also a universe inside – just of the knowledge in the book. Every bird and/or thought that flies moves equally through a world outer space as well as through a world inner space, the universe book.

The picture flow of the artist Dagmar Varady shows libraries and workplaces of “researchers in the broadest sense”. A selection of 23 photographs in Leporello – format conveys the horizon of thought of the knowledge space behind the visual research on the respective genius loci. “I’m interested in the look behind the scenes, the place where the work is created,” says Varady. Material that is quite divergent in content, essays and glossaries on the theme of reflecting on individual ways of working to produce knowledge come together in a companion publication to form a common text. The multiplicity of intellectual connections-between architecture, science, art, research, commercial history, garden history, art book collection, and cultural management-makes thinking both outward and inwardly permeable. As a work of art and as a work of science, it finds its place in the book. Considering it as an artistic work, it is possible to approach this book like an exhibition.

Description

Kunst.Werk.Buch

“Kunst.Werk.Buch” designates a kind of world interior space and means that there is also a universe inside – just of the knowledge in the book. Every bird and/or thought that flies moves equally through a world outer space as well as through a world inner space, the universe book.

The picture flow of the artist Dagmar Varady shows libraries and workplaces of “researchers in the broadest sense”. A selection of 23 photographs in Leporello – format conveys the horizon of thought of the knowledge space behind the visual research on the respective genius loci. “I’m interested in the look behind the scenes, the place where the work is created,” says Varady. Material that is quite divergent in content, essays and glossaries on the theme of reflecting on individual ways of working to produce knowledge come together in a companion publication to form a common text. The multiplicity of intellectual connections-between architecture, science, art, research, commercial history, garden history, art book collection, and cultural management-makes thinking both outward and inwardly permeable. As a work of art and as a work of science, it finds its place in the book. Considering it as an artistic work, it is possible to approach this book like an exhibition.

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Weight2 kg / 4.41 lbs
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