GEORGE BRECHT. EVENTS. EINE HETEROSPEKTIVE. A HETEROSPECTIVE

A true instigator of contemplation, George Brecht was the artist who most successfully took ready-mades into the field of action. He inquired into chance, space, time, nature and the essence of experience, and created a body of work based on the ephemeral and the conceptual. In collaboration with the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, MACBA organised the first major retrospective of his work in thirty years. The catalogue focuses on Brecht’s work from the sixties and seventies, his so-called ‘event objects’ consisting of random constellations of ordinary everyday objects. The publishing house Walther König published this catalogue that includes testimonies from the artist’s friends (including Claes Oldenburg, Richard Hamilton and Robert Whitman), a number of key writings by Brecht himself, and essays by Julia Robinson and Alfred Fischer.