ANONYMOUS
31. October - 14. January 2007

ANONYM - IN THE FUTURE NO ONE WILL BE FAMOUS

With its presentation of the project "Anonymous", the Schirn investigates current exhibition practices and their economy of data and names.

Under the programmatic title "Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous", the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents an exhibition with works by 11 international artists who - like the curator - will remain unnamed. In their Notes toward a Manifesto, the initiators of the exhibition proclaim: "Anonymous artists wish to wriggle the status quo into a status incognitus. Their aim is to remove the increasing barbarization of thought via short circuits and fast lanes created by the marketing of artists as brands whose works have become masterpieces in ignorance of philosophy."

Unlike other manifestations of anonymity in the current contemporary art scene - where artists take on pseudonyms - this exhibition is unique in gathering a group of artists who have put themselves undercover for a certain period of time (vaguely stated as "until the expiration date has been reached").

Edited by anonymous and Max Hollein, with a preface by Max Hollein and texts by Dominic Eichler, Stephan Heidenreich, April Elizabeth Lamm, Eckhart Nickel, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. German/English edition, 160 pages, 32 b/w illustrations, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, ISBN 3-936859-51-5.

24,80 €

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