Rirkrit Tiravanija / Rirkrit Tiravanija. Untitled, 1996 (tomorrow is another day)
TIRAVANIJA Rirkrit (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1961), Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein / Salon Verlag, 1998, 17,5x12,5 cm., paperback [hardcover], pp. [100], illustrated cover and volume with various colored photographs illustrating different people visiting and experiencing the installation that Tiravanija created in the gallery space. He reproduced in scale 1:1 his New York studio at the time, and asked the Kölnischer Kunstverein to open it 24h a day for the duration of the exhibition. Everyone could have access to the space, and many encounters were made. Catalog/artist's book with a preface by Udo Kittelmann, published after the exhibition (Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, from November 6, 1996 to January 19, 1997). First edition.
TIRAVANIJA Rirkrit (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1961), Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein / Salon Verlag, 1998, 17,5x12,5 cm., paperback [hardcover], pp. [100], illustrated cover and volume with various colored photographs illustrating different people visiting and experiencing the installation that Tiravanija created in the gallery space. He reproduced in scale 1:1 his New York studio at the time, and asked the Kölnischer Kunstverein to open it 24h a day for the duration of the exhibition. Everyone could have access to the space, and many encounters were made. Catalog/artist's book with a preface by Udo Kittelmann, published after the exhibition (Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, from November 6, 1996 to January 19, 1997). First edition.
TIRAVANIJA Rirkrit (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1961), Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein / Salon Verlag, 1998, 17,5x12,5 cm., paperback [hardcover], pp. [100], illustrated cover and volume with various colored photographs illustrating different people visiting and experiencing the installation that Tiravanija created in the gallery space. He reproduced in scale 1:1 his New York studio at the time, and asked the Kölnischer Kunstverein to open it 24h a day for the duration of the exhibition. Everyone could have access to the space, and many encounters were made. Catalog/artist's book with a preface by Udo Kittelmann, published after the exhibition (Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, from November 6, 1996 to January 19, 1997). First edition.
"Open around the clock! was the motto of the Kolnische Kunstverein for several weeks in the winter of 1996/97. In the gallery. Rirkrit Tiravanija had constructed a full-size and tunctioning replica ot his New York apartment and made it available to the public for 24 hours a day. Tiravanija's concern underlying this project is the basic question about today's possibilities of creating art - in a time in which overproduction and compulsion to consume have also taken hold of art and in which, as Tiravanija himself says, „so much art is being made". The apartment was used by numerous visitors by day and by night. Students on a trip to Cologne took advantage of this free opportunity to stay overnight as well as those who came in the early morning, tired and exhausted after having spent the night at a party. Among all these guests one could discover people from the art business, collectors and critiques. Groups of people prepared meals and talked, took a bath or occupied the bed. Our fear that the art-living-space might be vandalized did not come true. On the contrary, this unique combination of art and life offered an impressive experience of togetherness to everybody. The art-space lost its institutional function and finally turned into a free social space. As Tiravanija describes his intentionally pragmatic concept: „The point is not to see, but to be there." from the preface of Udo Kittelmann
