Hansjörg Mayer: The Smell of Ink

Im Rahmen der Reihe »Poetische Expansionen«

Im Rahmen der Reihe »Poetische Expansionen«
Duration
5:17
Category
Exhibition
Date
01.04.2017 to 07.07.2017
Description

With »The Smell of Ink«, the ZKM is dedicating the first extensive retrospective in Germany to London-based artist, printer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer. Mayer has not merely become one of the most important protagonists of concrete and visual poetry with his typographic experiments. In collaboration with artists such as Dieter Roth, Richard Hamilton or Tom Phillips, he also expanded the scope of what is printable in art forever.

 

Video Documentary:

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Camera: Frenz Jordt, Martina Rotzal, Christina Zartmann
Konzept: Frenz Jordt, Margit Rosen
Editing: Frenz Jordt
Sound Recording: Marco Kempf
Interview: Regina Hock
Voice: Rabea Rahmig
Musik: Tiny Tiny Trio Pacing

Participants

Participants

Exhibitions / Events

Images

Open Gallery
  • A black and white photograph shows sharply a desk lamp in the foreground. In the background one is out of focus a man, Hansjörg Mayer with a beard and a white shirt.
    Dieter Roth, »Hansjörg Mayer«, 1974, private collection
  • Visitor of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«
    Visitor of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«
  • Group portrait of the artists and curators of the exhibition »Poetic Expansions«
    Opening of the exhibition »Poetische Expansionen«: (from left) Hansjörg Mayer, Margit Rosen, Wolfram Jäger, Nanni Balestrini, Peter Weibel, Gerhard Rühm and Erec Gellautz
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Druckprozessbilder« (print process pictures), around 1960, Georg Bense (Rainer Wössner, Hansjörg Mayer), »Der Monology der Terry Jo«, 1963/2013, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Das letzte Alphabet« [The last alphabet], 1969–2013, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »sau aus usa« [Sow from the USA], 1965, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Yunnan«, 1962, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Alphabetenquadrat« [Alphabet Square], 1966, detail, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017

Images

Overview
  • A black and white photograph shows sharply a desk lamp in the foreground. In the background one is out of focus a man, Hansjörg Mayer with a beard and a white shirt.
    Dieter Roth, »Hansjörg Mayer«, 1974, private collection
  • Visitor of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«
    Visitor of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«
  • Group portrait of the artists and curators of the exhibition »Poetic Expansions«
    Opening of the exhibition »Poetische Expansionen«: (from left) Hansjörg Mayer, Margit Rosen, Wolfram Jäger, Nanni Balestrini, Peter Weibel, Gerhard Rühm and Erec Gellautz
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Druckprozessbilder« (print process pictures), around 1960, Georg Bense (Rainer Wössner, Hansjörg Mayer), »Der Monology der Terry Jo«, 1963/2013, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Das letzte Alphabet« [The last alphabet], 1969–2013, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »sau aus usa« [Sow from the USA], 1965, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Yunnan«, 1962, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017
  • View of the exhibition »Hansjörg Mayer. The Smell of Ink«
    Hansjörg Mayer, »Alphabetenquadrat« [Alphabet Square], 1966, detail, ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2017

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