CLEGG & GUTTMANN
Monument for Historical Change and Other Social Sculptures, Community Portraits and Spontaneous Operas. 1990-2005

Erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung in der Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien (22. April - 22. Juni 2005)

204 Seiten, zahlr. meist. farb. Abbildungen, deutsch / englisch, 29 x 23 cm, broschiert

2005

ISBN 3-85160-059-2
ISBN 13: 978-3-85160-059-9

€ 32,90 [A]
€ 32,00 [D]

"The present publication has two distinct aims. The first is to present in depth a single work of art: A Monument for Historical Change, an outdoor sculpture located in Berlin-Mitte which was completed in September 2004.
The book is also a collection of writings by Clegg & Guttmann on public art from 1990 to 2005, the results of an effort to frame artistic praxis within a coherent and general theoretical vision of socially embedded art.
The two aims are complementary.
Monument for Historical Change is a prime example of the category of Social Sculptures. It is a culmination of earlier ideas about art which combines institutional arrangements, cultural forms and ideational constructs and uses them as building blocks. The Monument was also the beginning of a new direction. It is a work of art designed to function as a conduit to the historical layer of the urban environment.
The essays, interviews and documents collected here provide Monument for Historical Change with the appropriate theoretical context and places it in a lineage of projects leading to it. A detailed chronology is provided of social sculptures, community portraits and spontaneous operas by Clegg & Guttmann from 1990 to 2005."

Clegg & Guttmann

CLEGG&GUTTMANN
Decomposition <=> Reconstitution
Berlin 1918: Anti-Capitalism, Avant-Garde Art, Atonal Music
Ed. Galerie Christian Nagel Köln/Berlin

This book documents an exhibition the artists had at the Galerie Nagel in Berlin.
Texts by Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann, Diedrich Diederichsen

64 pages, numerous colour illustrations, German / English, 240 mm x 170 mm, Paperback

June 2003

ISBN 3-85160-029-0
ISBN 13: 978-3-85160-029-2

€ 18,50 [A]
€ 18,00 [D]

In Berlin 2003 Clegg & Guttmann discovered a powerful constellation in modern history, and employed this discovery as a lens through which to renew the aesthetic and political perception of Berlin. The constellation draws from the years following the First World War, when ideological criticism of a Marxist persuasion, smashed the myth of the unity of the German nation (R. Luxemburg, K. Liebknecht), while the Berlin Dadaists who were gathered round Hausmann and Hülsenbeck destroyed the unity of art in their text- and picture collages, and revolutionary new composers such as Schönberg, Weill and Eisler, furnished new materials for the "higher" music coming from the fields of jazz and cabarets.

Clegg & Guttmann designed a new city plan for Berlin, inventing new districts and new street names, which they stuck over the old street signs. They used portrait photographs of these protagonists of the aesthetic and political avant-garde, printed and cut from aluminum plates, to manufacture collage sculptures, in order to demonstrate their theorem of the visible "seam".