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Categories: Installation | Text
Keywords: Concept
Works by Jochen Gerz:
2146 Stones – Monument Against Racism
Exhibition of Jochen Gerz Next to His Photographic Reproduction Auto-portrait 71 The Berkeley Oracle The Dachau Project Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered The Head of M The Mouth that Paints The Trans-Sib. Prospect These Words are My Flesh IBM Colour Ribbon Warning: Art Corrupts Life Marsyas (From Death, Out Of Life) Photo/Text 51 Purple Cross for absent now Revolution 1971 Calling to the Point of Exhaustion Writing by Hand Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams Video Opera House
Jochen Gerz
«Pictures at an Exhibition»
Mounted on the wall are glass tablets with text amounting to a decalogue of prohibitions of idolism: «don’t look at me» – «don’t make a picture of me»– «don’t describe me» – «don’t judge me.» Gerz offsets the commands with the music of Mussorgsky’s «Pictures at an Exhibition,» which is playing on a tape recorder in the centre of the room.
