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Edited by Vincenzo Latronico
English version | 2011
14 × 21 cm | 56 pages
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German version | 2011
13 × 18,5 cm | 80 pages
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Italian version | 2011
13 × 20 cm | 64 pages
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Remedies to the absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck
Remedies to the Absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck, including contributions by Magdalena Holzhey, Vincenzo Latronico, Simone Menegoi and Dieter Roelstraete, is a collection of texts around the concept of an exhibition which includes no actual artworks by the artist it exhibits.
Published to accompany a documentary retrospective of German conceptual artist
Reiner Ruthenbeck's 60s and 70s sculptures, Remedies to the Absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck investigates the methods, reasons and motives for the recent surge in
documentary displays in the visual arts, with a particular focus on the
relationship between sculpture and photography.
Existing in English, German and Italian, under three different book forms and
designs, and with slight discrepancies between the three versions, Remedies to the Absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck itself questions the relationship between the "original" and the "derivative"
which ultimately grounds the concept it investigates - that of documentation,
the possibility of using a copy, be it a text or a picture, to summon the
presence of what is afar, as a remedy to its absence. Of course, not all
remedies work.
