Esther Eppstein - message salon:: The Album - Hardcover

Esther Eppstein (ed.) Essays By Nadine Olonetzky And Kerim Seiler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3858814563 ISBN 13: 9783858814562

Publisher: Scheidegger & Spies, 2016

Synopsis

Documents the history, people, and significance of a unique space for experimental art in Zürich
• Richly illustrated with previously unpublished material

Esther Eppstein is an artist and art educator and a pivotal figure in Switzerland's cultural life. 1996-2013 she ran her message salon in Zürich, a space for experimental art that soon became a legend and an institution. It was located in various buildings, all of them bound for demolition, and 1998/99 also in an old caravan. The caravan was later purchased by the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zürich for its permanent collection. Throughout its seventeen years, message salon was a cultural beehive humming with artists and art lovers.

This new book is a review of the message salon's entire existence and a gallery of people making it what it was: Young artists, whom Eppstein offered a first chance to present themselves, the more established ones who could re-invent themselves in this laboratory, and also the public and celebrities who came to admire, experience, and to see and be seen. Richly illustrated with some 800 photographs, Esther Eppstein - message salon is also an homage to an extraordinary personality. The essays tell the story and reflect on the significance of this unique social sculpture.

About this title

About the Author

Nadine Olonetzky, born 1962, is a freelance cultural publicist and editor with Scheidegger & Spiess. She contributes regularly to NZZ am Sonntag and to books and catalogues on photography, art, and art history. Kerim Seiler, born 1974, is a Swiss artist living and working in Zürich.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spies
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858814563
• ISBN 13: 9783858814562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Esther Eppstein