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About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Martin Creed
| Editor | Matthia Löbke, Jürgen Tabor |
| Publisher | Snoeck |
| Year | 2017 |
| Cover | Softcover |
| Language | engl. dt. |
| ISBN | 978-3-86442-136-5 |
| Pages | 216 |
| More | |
| Contributors | Anouchka Grose et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck; Kunstverein Heilbronn |
| Article ID | art-82028 |
Martin Creed does not settle for any medium in particular, he produces videos, paintings, sculptures and works in neon, he makes music and stages ballet productions. The physical environment always plays an important role.
In 2001, the London-based Scottish artist was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, for a work that »only« consisted of regularly switching the light in a room on and off. What at first glance appears rather reduced, is highly relevant for the entire room and the visitors who move in it.
Martin Creed's brilliant work on one hand appears playful and amazingly friendly, but in its result it is preemptory and rigorous. In a very personal interview, Martin Creed was asked why he made art. His answer was: to make myself feel better. This statement is as disarming as it is frank, and it challenges the viewer of his work to participate in the process of engaging with art, with space and with the world in general.
