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Release: 11 October 2011
Jean-Christophe Ammann, Das Wespennest ist eine Kathedrale: Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg | Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, No. 1
Deutsch: 136 pages, hardcover, 14 × 10,5 cm, €20.00, ISBN 978-3-86984-240-0
The volume looks at Jean-Christophe Ammann’s life work as curator, art expert and museum director. Ammann talks about his origins, his studies and starting work at the Kunsthalle Bern under Harald Szeemann, talks about his experiences over many years as the director of the Kunstmuseum Luzern, the Kunsthalle Basel and the MMK Frankfurt, philosophises about cosmology, the contemporary and dialectics, about intimacy, sexuality and pornography, about photography and photoshop, discusses works and concepts by Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Franz Gertsch, Jeff Wall, Fischli|Weiss and others, and finally analyses Lars von Trier’s film “Antichrist.”
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