Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Heike Munder

Tadeusz Kantor

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) is one of Poland's most significant artists. This essential publication offers a comprehensive overview of Kantor's versatility, from theater productions and actions to painterly and sculptural works. It also includes the "happening" photographs of Eustachy Kossakowski (1925-2001).

Exposition, the Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Du 30 Août Au 16 Novembre 2008

"From Dada to Fluxus and Conceptual art to the 1990s, humour is often at the heart of art as much as a visual strategy as an intellectual process. Based on an exhibition, this anthology does not try to illustrate the grotesque, the satirical, or the comic, but to separate the mechanisms of humour. Since Freud, humour is generally envisaged as a manifestation of the unconscious, like a kind of negotiation with repressed elements or collective fears. It is this subversive and social role of humour that is the subject of enquiry by artists such as Vito Acconci, Anna & Bernhard Blume, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fischli & Weiss, Martin Kippenberger, Peter Land, Piero Manzoni, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Martin Parr, Sigmar Polke and Jean-Frâedâeric Schnyder"--Publisher.

When Humour Becomes Painful

Ian Penman

Edited by Tom Holert and Heike Munder. Essays by Ian Penman and Terre Thaemlitz.

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