Ingo Giezendanner Libri

In 1992, the infamous environmental installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude took their first trip west in search of a site for a new temporary artwork--in this case, a stream of successive transluscent fabric panels that would be suspended for two summer weeks across the banks of a Rocky Mountain river, high enough above the water to allow kayakers, rafters or pedestrians to drift along below it, and close enough to a road that the piece could be approached and enjoyed by car or bus. On subsequent trips they investigated the headwaters of 89 rivers in six states, logging 14,000 miles onto thier odometer, until they finally settled on a site along the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado. Then they began the arduous process of getting permission from all of the necessary local beaurocracies and activist groups. This book documents the process from 1992 until 2005, at which point the artists were still only half-way there. (The project will not come to fruition until the year 2010 at the earliest.) As with all previous projects, "Over the River" is financed entirely by Christo and Jeanne-Claude through the sale of preparatory work. These drawings, lithographs, collages and scale models are presented here, together with comprehensive documentary photographs.

A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.0"Half slumber, half wake. This precious moment of finding yourself in the midst, by white light and bright bedsheets. You don't know where you are, then open the windows. Welcome the metropolitan noise, its tracks of consumerism and waste, observing not all are bedded soft and safe."--Ingo Giezendanner

Since 1998, the Swiss artist Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen and paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wall paintings. This collection of monochrome and detailed drawings documents the artist's trip from Zurich to Japan on the train travelling through Siberia and Japan. Since 1998, the Swiss artist Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen and paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wall paintings. This collection of monochrome and detailed drawings documents the artist’s trip from Zurich to Japan on the train travelling through Siberia and Japan.

Von Herbst 2003 bis Sommer 2004 wurde das Kunsthaus Zürich erstmals in seiner Geschichte vollständig saniert. Der junge Schweizer Künstler Ingo Giezendanner hielt diesen Prozess im Auftrag des Kunsthauses zeichnerisch fest. Als «Die Bau Zeitung» liegen Giezendanners grossformatigen Ansichten nun in Form einer Zeitung vor. Ingo Giezendanner war während der Bauarbeiten wiederholt auf der Baustelle des Kunsthauses zu Gast und realisierte in einem halben Jahr ein paar Dutzend Filzstift-Zeichnungen. Die Schwarzweissstudien halten im Sinne eines künstlerischen Tagebuchs die Umgestaltungen vor Ort fest. Es sind Werke ; die zwischen dokumentarischer Abbildungstreue und Abstraktion oszillieren und immer wieder unerwartete Einblicke in das komplexe Baugeschehen eröffnen. «Die Bau Zeitung» versammelt Zeichnungen ; die allesamt überraschende Ansichten ; Blickwinkel und Ausschnitte des Kunsthauses zeigen - Zeichnungen ; die auch noch aktuell sein werden ; wenn die Baustelle längst Vergangenheit sein wird.