Geholten Stühle, The Stools Walk the Earth

The Stools Walk the Earth

Geholten Stühle

Publisher
Edition Patrick Frey
Year
2001
ISBN
978-3-905509-36-6
Specifications
Hardcover
120 pages
89 colour images
19.8 x 26.7 cm
Language: German and English

The Geholten Stühle are a Zürich-based art/comedy/performance duo. The Stools Walk The Earth shows photographs of them on fictional trip around the world. Always wearing the same suits, like tourists from a virtual country—sometimes consciously alluding to the idea of the ‘living sculpture’—they visit (alone or together) industrial no-man’s land and swamps, parking garages and snow fields, glaciers, vegetable markets, prairies and beaches. We see them standing on aircraft carriers, sitting besides Madonna statues in grottoes, stepping out of remote mountain cabins, lying among gravestones, or feeding pigeons in Venice. It’s a surreal and eerie trip around a strangely displaced world.

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