
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
Anish Kapoor Opens the Door:Modern Artist Creates Monuments that Transcend Space & Time
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
Emily Wasik asked Isa here: You once said in an interview, 'I want to animate the viewers, hold a mirror up to them.' Why do you believe it's important to put yourself [as an artist] in the viewer's shoes and create art that transforms them?
after 2010, Isa Genzken, the artist who doesn't do interviews' (2014)
“What is the significance of viewer participation in your work?”
Context: What is the significance of viewer participation in your work?
It has to do with kinetic art. Kinetic art has very much to do with the interaction between spectator and art. In the second half of the ’50s, this became a big international movement. When I moved from painting to connections within media, this came through in the first work, which was an exhibition of found cardboard pieces. It was a turning point for me. The world itself, the industrial fabricated world, could stand for the man-made world of art.
Source: Mark Hudson. "Cornelia Parker Interview." in: Telegraph. June 24, 2010
Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006,Vol. 13, p. 86, http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=791 and http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3883
Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter 6
“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
1915 - 1925, Suprematism' in World Reconstruction (1920)