Haim Steinbach: North East South West (Cantz S.) - Softcover

Ferguson, Bruce A.; Etc.; Steinbach, Haim

9783775790253: Haim Steinbach: North East South West (Cantz S.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 377579025X ISBN 13: 9783775790253

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2001

Along with Robert Gober and Jeff Koons, New York-based Haim Steinbach is one of the most renowned exponents of the late 70s art movement which endeavored to revamp the post-Duchamp tradition of ready-mades in the face of a rising wave of neo-expressionism. Steinbach has become known for his "thing altars," carefully manufactured shelves containing borrowed or purchased objects that take on new meaning in the context of their surroundings, recalling Robert Smithson's notions of "site" and "non-site." This new book in the Cantz Series documents a Berlin-specific installation by the artist. Steinbach, born to German-Jewish parents in Israel, stayed in the former East Germany for the first time, visiting families all over Berlin and borrowing individual objects or arrangements which he then transferred to an art space. In doing so the artist became the curator of a sort of group exhibition of "collected collections" which interact in surprising ways in their new space.

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Synopsis:

This book documents Steinbach's installation North East South West at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Haus der Kunst Munchen, as well as selected installations since 1979. For this work the artist produced video interviews with residents of Berlin and Munich about the objects they have in their homes. Borrowing these objects from his interviewees, he 'arranges the arrangements', giving the objects a new visibility. Employing a scaffolding system as a display device, Steinbach delineates spaces, channeling people towards new and unexpected relationships and meanings.

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