
Works 7
- Publisher
- Edition Patrick Frey
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 978-3-906803-21-0
- Specifications
- Hardcover
301 pages
366 illustrations
29.7 x 21 cm
Design by Mike Hentz
Language: German and English
The Swiss-American graphic artist, musician, photographer and performance artist Mike Hentz is among the pioneers of media art. He co-founded the legendary performance group Minus Delta T, the artist groups Frigo and Radio Bellevue, and the European Media Art Lab. In the 1990s he realized the project Piazza Virtuale with Van Gogh TV and numerous interactive television events with Universcity TV via cable and satellite. He also taught at art schools in Germany, Switzerland and various Eastern European countries. Works 7 is a survey of an entirely idiosyncratic kind — snapshots from all over the world, paintings, collages, graphics, ornamentation and artefacts from Hentz's collections, ranging from old illustrated magazines to fabric samples, cross-linking and illuminating one another. Hentz's works are multifunctional, ceaselessly morphing and surfacing in the most varied contexts. The book, at once encyclopedic and excessive, mirrors this work-in-flux in its associative arrangement.