BOOK OF THE COMMON

The Time Capsule, Twenty-Five Years of KUNST+PROJEKTE Sindelfingen e. V.,
is narrative, does not document the work in a linear way, but instead takes
a look at a variety of distinctive features, memories, notes, and the struggles of artists while working in Sindelfingen. Also included is the lively participation
of the daily press (Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Sindelfinger Zeitung, Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote).
Not a catalogue in the classical sense, but rather a collage, a book object consisting of various individual elements, able to be handled in an open and flexible manner.

BOOK OF THE COMMON is presented as a folding case containing four parts:

1 (left)
Eighteen DIN A5 booklets from the early years, 1989 – 2003,
with a monographic, theoretical orientation; one booklet per project;
haptic, colourful binding. Artistic impulses in a concise, montage-like flow:
selected texts, pictures, and press articles from the archive boxes.

2 (right)
Twelve DIN A1 posters / catalogue pages of the later years,
2004 – 16, one catalogue page for each exhibition,
in slit pockets of a foldout / leporello,
with English on the reverse side.
The large DIN A1 poster offers a composite view and
discourse of the different art positions of the international artists.

3 (folder)
A »poetic« little book of letters with journal entries, analyses,
interviews, aphorisms, et cetera that did not fit in the booklets and catalogue pages,
but echo an underlying mood of the BOOK OF THE COMMON,
appear in a loose, nonchronological sequence.

4 (folder with artist editions)
Franz Erhard Walther – Drawing for the BOOK OF THE COMMON, 2018,
Thomas Ruff – Saturn, drawing 2017,
Johannes Wald – Untitled (Forms in the Realm of the Mind), 2018

(Edition of 100, signed, numbered)