General Idea / Fin de Siècle
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 to 1994), Stuttgart • Hamburg • Toronto, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart / Kunstverein in Hamburg / The Power Plant, [printing Lecturis BV, Eindhoven], 1992, 28,5x21,5 cm., paperback, pp. 104 + [12], illustrated catalogue edited by General Idea. Tens of images through the pages, texts by Tilman Osterwold (General Idea), Joshua Decter (The Theatrics of Dissemination: A General Idea Model), Friedemann Malsch (The Other Reality: The Multiples of General Idea), Louise Dompierre (Towards the 'Fin the Siècle'), Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Between Faith and Hope: General Idea's PLA©EBO Series), Jean-Christophe Amman (Miss General Idea's Heraldic Hall); with a biography of the artists.
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 to 1994), Stuttgart • Hamburg • Toronto, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart / Kunstverein in Hamburg / The Power Plant, [printing Lecturis BV, Eindhoven], 1992, 28,5x21,5 cm., paperback, pp. 104 + [12], illustrated catalogue edited by General Idea. Tens of images through the pages, texts by Tilman Osterwold (General Idea), Joshua Decter (The Theatrics of Dissemination: A General Idea Model), Friedemann Malsch (The Other Reality: The Multiples of General Idea), Louise Dompierre (Towards the 'Fin the Siècle'), Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Between Faith and Hope: General Idea's PLA©EBO Series), Jean-Christophe Amman (Miss General Idea's Heraldic Hall); with a biography of the artists.
GENERAL IDEA (Collective) Felix Partz - Jorge Zontal - AA Bronson (Toronto, active from 1967 to 1994), Stuttgart • Hamburg • Toronto, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart / Kunstverein in Hamburg / The Power Plant, [printing Lecturis BV, Eindhoven], 1992, 28,5x21,5 cm., paperback, pp. 104 + [12], illustrated catalogue edited by General Idea. Tens of images through the pages, texts by Tilman Osterwold (General Idea), Joshua Decter (The Theatrics of Dissemination: A General Idea Model), Friedemann Malsch (The Other Reality: The Multiples of General Idea), Louise Dompierre (Towards the 'Fin the Siècle'), Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Between Faith and Hope: General Idea's PLA©EBO Series), Jean-Christophe Amman (Miss General Idea's Heraldic Hall); with a biography of the artists.
"(Miss) General Idea is a phenomenon that displays the qualities of a chameleon. Just when one thinks one has grasped it, when it seems to offer concrete points of reference that would revealand express its strategy, its qualities of the perfect art of transformation, role play, coquetry, camouflage and dissemblance lead to a logical and coherent, but unse-cured, 'point.' Ordinary cultural phenomena and playfully shallow lightness plunge unexpectedly into a bottomless pit, into the realm of the enigmatic, into eerie depths; the 'common' world appears ghostly and the self-evident takes on demonic characteristics. General Idea are well-coor-dinated walkers of the tightrope between existential interior values and materialized external worlds. They maintain a balancing act which would immediately fall into the net of incredibility at the slightest false conceptional step, if they made use of such seemingly seductive safeguards." from the text by Tilman Osterwold
