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9781933128061
With an introduction by the renowned architect Rem Koolhaas, this book gathers for the first time a selection of writings by Hans Ulrich Obrist. While the Swiss curator is mostly known for his legendary interviews, he has also written numerous prefaces to exhibition catalogues and artists? publications, as well as magazine articles on art and architecture. His writings trace a unique curatorial practice and can serve as a guide to contemporary exhibition-making.Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator at the Musee d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has co-curated major international shows such as Manifesta I, Rotterdam, the 1st Berlin Biennial, the 50th Venice Biennale (Utopia Station), the Dakar Biennial, the 1st Moscow Biennial, and later this year the 2nd Guangzhou Triennale in China. Obrist has also created many innovative exhibitions outside the contemporary gallery format, including Do it (more than 40 versions from 1994 to present), Unbuilt Roads (1997), Cities on the Move, Laboratorium, Nano Museum, Bridge the Gap. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the hybrid artist pages Point d?Ironie.Obrist, Hans Ulrich is the author of 'dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop Hans Ulrich Obrist', published 2006 under ISBN 9781933128061 and ISBN 1933128062.
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