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Martin Kippenberger: Metro-Net

Martin Kippenberger: Metro-Net

Kippenberger, Martin
Hurttig, Marcus Andrew
Weppelmann, Stefan

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ISBN10: 3959054858
ISBN13: 9783959054850
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

On Kippenberger's utopian portals into an imaginary global transportation system

In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger (1953-97) developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist's most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form. In 1993, a metro entrance was built on the Greek island of Syros, followed by two more: one in 1995, in Dawson City in Canada, and the other in 1997, on the new Leipzig exhibition grounds. These structures proposed a means of traveling in the boundless space of the imagination: without the willingness to visualize tunnel tubes and moving underground trains, this project remains a nonsensical building plan. But the moment we accept the artwork as a mode of transport for mind travelers, then the full power of this work unfolds. Documented in this volume, Kippenberger's METRO-Net was intended to counter life's predictable, rationally oriented parameters with a romantic sense of the world.

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