Gregor Schneider
In 1985, Gregor Schneider began to build whole rooms inside the existing rooms of his house in Rheydt (Germany), replicating its interior spaces. Since then, Schneider has built a series of spatial constructions that divest these everyday places of their familiarity. Taking on the dialectic between private and public space, Schneider remakes, transforms and relocates walls within the museum, defying architectural logic and questioning the limits of space.
Schneider’s work combines the recent history of Germany with the dystopian spaces of his personal experience. By means of memory and recollections activated by the artist, these spaces twist the idea of placidity and, moving beyond the house as a place of protection and seclusion, present themselves as disquieting precincts that disconcert, discomfort and suffcate.
- Authors
- Ory Dessau, Reinhard Maiworm, Virginia Roy
- Editor
- MUAC, UNAM
- Language
- Spanish - English
- Format
- 16x22 cm
- Edition
- 2017
- Extension
- 64 p.
- Price
- $250
- ISBN UNAM
- 978-607-02-8966-8
