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Martin Kippenberger : everything is everywhere / Chris Reitz.

by Reitz, Chris, author.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Kippenberger, Martin, 1953-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.

9780262545013 (hardcover) :

0262545012 (hardcover) :

228 pages (some folded ) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

"In this book, Chris Reitz shows that the condition of Kippenberger's art was an endless, enthusiastic searching, constrained by the impossibility of fulfillment. An adolescent during West Germany's Wirtschaftswunder, the economic miracle of the 1960s, which was followed by the economic recession and political tumult of the 1970s, Kippenberger pursued a hyper-productive artistic practice that reflected the highs an belonged to the first truly postwar generation. But, largely uninterested in the legacy of National Socialism that had occupied his predecessors, Kippenberger ursued a hyper-productive artistic practice that reflected the highs and lows of his youth, as well as the dreams and fears of the West German middle class from which he came. Kippenberger's ambitions took him everywhere: he founded a museum in Greece, invested in a fashion business and a restaurant, and even bought a gas station in Brazil. He made art in a dizzying range of genres, from paintings to poetry, from posters to stickers. He made art out of his appetites, too, producing art on the theme of his own alcoholism. Intensely entrepreneurial, Kippenberger carried out an artistic practice in which his diverse endeavors, and the people who joined him in them, were all connected in a sprawling network. Reitz deftly presents Kippenberger's career as an allegory of the neoliberal networks of capital, technology, and culture that spanned Europe and America in the 1980s."-- Provided by publisher.

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