Tomas Schmit : sachen machen = making things / für das Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Jenny Graser in Zusammenarbeit mit Barbara Wien = for the Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Jenny Graser in collaboration with Barbara Wien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmit, Tomas, artist.

Contributor:

Graser, Jenny, editor, author.

Wien, Barbara, 1953- editor.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Kupferstichkabinett, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Schmit, Tomas--Exhibitions.

Schmit, Tomas.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Making things

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2021]

Language Note:

Parallel text in German and English.

Summary:

When the European Fluxus group split in 1964 after two eventful years, Tomas Schmit, who had been involved in the group's actions as a performer, gradually ithdrew from performing. From 1966 he devoted himself primarily to writing and drawing. But the idea of the stage as a place where an action is performed in front of and with an audience did not vanish from his art. From then on, Schmit staged "the performance of drawing" on paper. In this catalogue, the close interlocking of performance and drawing in Schmit's entire oeuvre is examined for the first time. The publication further reflects on the manifold spectrum of his drawing and language art spanning almost 40 years. Tomas Schmit (1943-2006) came to art as an autodidact, learning from Fluxus artists such as Nam June Paik, George Maciunas, Arthur Köpcke, and Ludwig Gosewitz, with whom he began performing in 1962. His drawings provide complex, often humorous commentary and engage with subjects as diverse as language, logic, cybernetics, biology, behavioral science, and perception.00Exhibition: Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany (15.09.2021 - 09.01.2022).

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2021-January 9, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-255).

Local Notes:

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, September 15, 2021 - January 9, 2022.

ISBN:

9783775751261

3775751262

OCLC:

1295406424