Le vieil Opéra Titanic

The Old Opera Titanic

Die alte Oper Titanic

CR 76. Year 1981

Le Vieil Opera Titanic Jochen Gerz Cr 76 Web

Die alte Oper
Titanic!

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Installation

1 text (typed on paper, framed white), 22 x 30 cm, 1 wine glass, h = 19.5 cm (6 ½ oz.), red wine

A wine glass is fixed to a wall alongside a typescript. The glass is regularly filled with red wine.

Ten pairs of glasses and typescripts constitute an edition with the same title (801).

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 1981. København 1981. Sens 1982. Düsseldorf 1988 (Wien 1988. Jouy-en Josas 1989. Saint-Etienne 1989. Hamburg 1990)

Bibliography

I: Sens 1982, pp. 8-9. Düsseldorf 1988, pp. 104-105

II: Bode 1, 1988

IV: Glasfront 1981, p. 9

V: Wolf 1992, p. 22

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