Nothing Thing

CR 490. Year 1968

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nothing thing

Text and picture, the two components of description, are thereby subject to their specific possibilities for existence inside and outside time; the text, itself tied to the stretching of time, and the picture which exists without a purpose, and which seems to intend to make a certain moment present for us. ... the European culture of writing both eliminates the working time of the writer and transposes the time-quality of the action into an incomprehensible dimension.

Ulrich Krempel 1988

Gerz betreibt geradezu eine irritierende Verschärfung von Gegensätzen und Wiedersprüchen. Forcierung statt Verschleierung und Beschwichtigung, keine Rezepturen, Lösungen und Erlösungen, sonder Aufzeigen von Leerstellen, Zwischenräumen einer denkbaren, noch zu füllenden Sphäre jenseits der Grenzen der Kultur.

Peter Friese 1991

Categories

Visual Poetry

Text (typewriting) on paper, 16.1 x 14.9 cm

Original lost, documents in the archives JG

See the edition Rechtsschreibung, ego. &cetera (749).

Exhibitions

Montevideo 1969. Bloomington 1970

Bibliography

IV: Strange Faces 1970

VI: Neuwied und Berlin 1971, p. 18

Access general bibliography

My name is Jochen Gerz