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Paul Thek: From Cross to Crib

Paul Thek: From Cross to Crib

Thek, Paul
Voigt, Reinhard
Deckwitz, Franz

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ISBN10: 3863353358
ISBN13: 9783863353353
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Published: Feb 24 2015
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.60 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
This publication documents a little-known temporary artwork. In the winter of 1973/74, Paul Thek (1933-1988) was a guest of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, where he installed the room-filling environment Ark, Pyramid - Christmas (The Manger)--a development of the legendary Pyramid installation realized at Documenta 5 in 1972. This exhibition, organized by the director of the museum at the time, Siegfried Salzmann, was the fourth in Thek's large-scale projects in Europe, all of which engaged with individualized religious symbols (or what Harald Szeemann termed Individual Mythologies). The Christmas season provided Thek with the occasion to present, for the first time, a self-written theater piece in the form of a nativity play featuring children from Duisburg. This book reproduces the museum's archival materials, offering a reconstruction of the exhibition. It includes an interview with Edwin Klein, who assisted with Thek's installation.

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