Vito Acconci

Redaktion: Marianne Eigenheer, Martin Kunz Luzern: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1978.

Dieser Katalog erscheint zur Ausstellung „Vito Acconci“ (7. Mai—11. Juni 1978) im Kunstmuseum Luzern in einer deutschen und englisch/deutschen Version. This catalogue is published in a German and an English/German version.

Interview mit Vito Acconci über seine Arbeit seit 1966.
(...) tural space pieces“ 1974–1978. Dokumentation
“Asylum (All the others seek asylum)”. Kunstmuseum Luzern 1978
Bio- und Bibliographie
Kunstmuseum Luzern, 7. Mai-11. Juni 1978

Texte
Interview mit Vito Acconci über die Entwicklung seiner Arbeit seit 1966 (mit Martin Kunz, Mai 1978. Auf die Aufzeichnung der Fragen wurde verzichtet, soweit sie nicht für das Verständnis wichtig sind.)

This catalogue describes and documents the first exhibition to be held in a European museum (in 1978, at Kunstmuseum Luzern, previous to the exhibition, often and erroneously presented as the first, at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum) by the American artist Vito Acconci, who at the end of the 1960s was among the first to explore the frontiers of Body Art, Video Art, and sound installations. The catalogue includes an exhaustive documentation of all of his first installations, which consisted of structures specifically conceived for specific sites, and thus in the light of specific historical, cultural and political situations. The exhibition in Lucerne and the catalogue that accompanied it brought together all such interventions which the artist had made from the beginning of the 1970s until 1978 and entitled Cultural Space Pieces. The catalogue presents photos of the installations as well as texts in which the artist discusses them, replete with sketches, technical data and the architectural plan of the whole of the exhibition space. To complete this comprehensive documentation, unprecedented both as an installation and a publication, the artist also created a new installation—the last of his series of Cultural Space Pieces in the largest hall of the Kunstmuseum.