Gerz, Jochen, 1940-
Nationality
German (born), French (previously based), Irish (currently based)
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Agentzia Blatt: Untitled. No.1, 1970
Letters, numbers and punctuation marks of varied font sizes appear to be falling, in a random arrangement, from the upper right hand corner of the print until reaching a circle filled with the photograph of a large group of people. The circle appears to represent a magnifying glass. The interpretation of this image is unclear. The duplicate copy is folded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Agentzia: In Concreto, No. 2, 1968
Includes folded posters, Jochen Gerz, Blatt-Nr.1: Untitled and Julien Blaine, Blatt-Nr.4. The poster by Gerz is included in Agentzia 2 but is catalogued separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Erika!, 1967
Poem begins, Was - deutsch was deutsch - deutsch was - deutsch was - deutsch was - ist - deutsch - ist - ... This work is designated No.475 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
If I Had a Mind..., 1971
In Concreto, 1968
Oevures sur Papier Photographique 1983-86 , 1987
Artworks consist of photographs with appended texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
People Speak, 1994
Res Publica: The Public Works 1968-1999, 1999
Although Gerz began as a visual poet, his later work dealt often with the events of the Holocaust. Gerz's public works frequently took the form of interviews and participation of the viewer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Surfiction: Fiction Now and Tomorrow, 1975
The Berkley Oracle, 1997
Rinder writes in an introductory essay that Jochen Gerz, aka The Berkeley Oracle, "in homage to the questioning spirit of Berkeley in the 1960's, invited questions to be posted on a web-site, hosted simultaneously by the Berkeley Art Museum and the Center for Art and Media...Gerz' piece alludes to the Oracle at Delphi..In the spring of 1998, Gerz selected approximately forty questions from the Berkeley Oracle, printed them out, and placed them in various locales around the Berkeley Art Museum. Some were installed in the galleries, along side works of art, while others were tucked away in unexpected places." The questions are reproduced, one to a single sided transluscent page in this book. The printed red lettered sentences on translucent paper are philosophical questions that might be answered by an oracle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.