Olaf Nicolai

by Charles Esche, Magnus Haglund, Raimar Stange, Barbara Steiner, and Slavoj Zizek

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In his artistic oeuvre, Olaf Nicolai questions the processes of perception in order to elicit a different kind of reception. "Questions of form, moods, attitudes and style are not just vain play with surfaces. They are questions of organisational forms of activities", he writes in his essay "Show Case". In his works, Nicolai displays attitudes and styles, combining and collecting them. He integrates classical artistic techniques and collecting, the securing of evidence and archiving as the activities of an artistic production. In his surprising, often overwhelming installations, Nicolai combines current questions of natural sciences and the liberal arts with...Read more
  • ISBN10 3775712739
  • ISBN13 9783775712736
  • Publish Date 30 January 2003
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 August 2023
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint Hatje Cantz
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Language English