
02/03/2022
- MILAN KNÍŽÁK
March 2, 2022.
#artistsagainstwar
#stopwar
#standwithukraine
Archivo Conz houses artworks, documents, editions and personal belongings collected and catalysed by Francesco Conz (Cittadella, 1935–Verona, 2010).
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- MILAN KNÍŽÁK
March 2, 2022.
#artistsagainstwar
#stopwar
#standwithukraine
"Artists don't have to do miracles, since they themselves are miracles, and encounters with certain artists can truly change your life...Artists are involved in the everyday chaos of life and art, and they promote a debate which is somehow central to the notion of enlightenment."
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- Francesco Conz in "Interview with Francesco Conz, Fluxus Collector Extraordinaire," Umbrella journal, 1999.
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Image: Untitled, 1989.
Milan Knížák
Black and white portrait photograph of Francesco Conz with handmade interventions made with paint and marker.
24 × 18 cm
Courtesy of @archivioconz
Photo by: Giorgia Palmisano
#fluxus #artists
Happy birthday to the inimitable Yoko Ono ❤️ photographed here by Francesco Conz, with whom Ono visited in Italy and collaborated. Beyond her epic conceptual performance pieces and beyond her well-known art circle and subsequent public image, Yoko Ono was integral to Fluxus, collaborating extensively with the likes of Nam Jun Paik, George Brecht, and her former roommate Charlotte Moorman.
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.”
-Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Image 2: Yoko Ono, Francesco Conz, and Ben Patterson
Image 3: Yoko Ono and friends
Image 4-5: A Key to Open Faded Memory, 1992
Glass, sponge, paperboard box, by Yoko Ono. Produced for @edizioniconz, edition of 40.
19 x 19 x 7 cm
Francesco Conz lived with the art he collected and collaborated on, surrounded by the work of artist friends right inside his own home: The Secret Museum.
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Conz's Secret Museum challenges the sacred vestments of the institution, instead illustrating an everyday dimension, where neither the excellence nor the historical value of individual works is privileged. Instead, an identity is created within which works, multiples, photographic documents, kitsch souvenirs are all interwoven throughout the home – for example on a shelf above the kitchen or in phrases on ceiling beams – creating an identity in constant redefinition, open to new interventions.
Image: Entrance at the ground floor of The Secret Museum
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#francescoconz #edizioniconz #archivioconz
Happy Birthday 91st birthday Gerhard Rühm!
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Gerhard Rühm (b. 1930, Vienna) works between poetry, music composition, and visual art. With Eugen Gomringer, Rühm pioneered Concrete Poetry, experimenting at once with typography, spoken word, and spatial organization on the page surface. Rühm, along with Gunther Brus and Hermann Nitsch, was also responsible for introducing Conz to Viennese Actionism. Rühm's vast background furthermore includes collaborations with Francesco Conz in producing a wide range of silkscreen-on-cloth editions, notably “Klangkörper” (literal "Sound Body"), a series of music score notations printed on cloth.
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Images 1-3: Gerhard Rühm (with Francesco Conz, Emmett Williams, Pierre Garnier, not pictured) 1989.
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Images 4,5 : Gehrhard Rühm (from a dinner with Hermann Nitsch, Joe Jones, Peter Moore, Francesco Conz, Takako Saito) August 24, 1975.
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Image 6: Klangkörper, 1988
(Klangkörper)
Silkscreen on cloth
172 × 154 cm Edition of 24
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Image 7: Klangkörper, 1988
(Klangkörper)
Silkscreen on cloth
172 × 158 cm
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Image 8: Klangkörper, 1988
(Klangkörper)
Silkscreen on cloth
171 × 147 cm
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For more information on our Editions and inquiries regarding purchasing, please email [email protected]
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#concretepoetry #vienneseactionism #gerhardruhm #eugengomringer #hermannnitsch #guntherbrus
Happy 97th Birthday dear Eugen Gomringer, father of Concrete Poetry. We are with him today, thinking of him at the Eugen Gomringer Platz 1 in Rehau ✨
Gomringer's art studies in the 1950s led him to nonrepresentational paintings, from which he emulated his first poems. In 1960 he founded his own magazine “Konkrete Poesie,” which began a decades-long period of intensive writing that continues into present day.
Concrete Poetry was a movement founded on the concept of using words not only as language read in linear forms, but also as graphic elements in relationship to the space of a page, thereby giving poems a meaning beyond their semantic element. Gomringer believed that a concrete poem was a poem in itself, not a poem about something.
Gomringer's extensive body of work also includes various silkscreens produced in small editions, which are integral to Edizioni Conz.
Images 1&2: Eugen Gomringer
Image 3: Untitled (Flow Grow), 1957, 1990. Silkscreen on vinyl. 139.5 × 122.5 cm. Edition of 3 @edizioniconz
Image 4: Untitled, 1991 (Nightgowns) Silkscreened on cloth, one side hand-painted by the artist. 125 × 157 cm.
Image 5: Untitled (Ping pong), 1953, 1990. Silkscreen on vinyl. 141 x 121 cm. Edition of 3 @edizioniconz
Image 6: Eugen Gomringer "Unikat and Editions" installation view at Edizioni Conz Raum, Berlin, 2019.
Image 7: Ekstase Kosmos Chaos. Acrylic paint on canvas. 139 x 109 cm.
Image 8: Eugen Gomringer and Francesco Conz.
For more information on Edizioni Conz and our editions, please email [email protected]
Fenus, 1989
Milan Knížák
Glazed Ceramic
100 x 80 x 43 cm
Ph: Giorgia Palmisano
Significant to Francesco Conz's collection are the editions produced for Edizioni Conz, a project started in 1972 in collaboration with over 60 artists, including Milan Knížák. Knížák's works for Edizioni Conz have been produced in limited multiples. Fenus, pictured here, is part of an Edition of only 5.
Milan Knížák (b.1940) organised the happenings in former Czechoslovakia, open to anyone whose "basic aspiration was to find a more vivid, all-encompassing experience to everyday life." He was introduced to #Fluxus by Allan Kaprow and nominated by George Maciunas as “Director of Fluxus East” in 1965.
For more information on our Editions and inquiries regarding purchasing, please email [email protected]
Ben Patterson’s ‘Flying’: Variations for Double Bass, 1961-2001
In Patterson’s 1961 Variations for Double Bass — influenced by his peer John Cage’s prepared-piano works — he placed clothespins, paper clips, and other objects on the strings, breaking conventions of classical music to make visual elements of equal importance to the acoustic.
The artwork housed @archivioconz And part of Francesco Conz’s collection shows poems and notes written on the wooden part of the double-bass and two aluminium wings with bunsen burner for impulse are attached to it.
There is also a note written by the artist saying "Flying": the final variation of Ben Patterson´s "Variations for Double-Bass (1961-2000)", realised in the workshop of Francesco Conz in Via Scrimiari 28, from October 22 to 25, 2001.
Aluminium wings, metal screws, bunsen burner, permanent marker on vintage double bass
📸 @hour.of.thewolf
#intermedia #benpatterson #archivioconz #francescoconz #johncage #doublebass
Found Dead, Joined at the Head
Ben Patterson and Francesco Conz
#benpatterson #francescoconz #fluxus #archivioconz
Ben Patterson and Francesco Conz
August 3, 1993
#benpatterson #francescoconz #fluxus
‘Me Ben? You Conz?’
Ben Patterson was integral to both Fluxus and Francesco Conz’ collection. Frustrated by the limitations he faced in trying to join an American orchestra as an African-American musician, Patterson moved to Cologne and took a radical position and approach to music, eventually becoming a founding member of Fluxus. With George Maciunas, Patterson played an essential role in organizing early European Fluxus festivals including the first one in Wiesbaden.
#benpatterson #francescoconz #intermedia #fluxus #wiesbaden
Dick Higgins’ Leather Shoes, 1995
Part of Francesco Conz’ fetish collection. Stay tuned as we reveal fetishes from the collection @archivioconz
Close-up of laces from 📸by @hour.of.thewolf
#dickhiggins #fluxus #archivioconz #intermedia
«When asked what one is doing, one can only explain it as ‘something else.’ Now one does something big, now one does something small, now another big thing, now another little thing. Always it is something else. We can talk about a thing, but we cannot talk a thing. It is always something else. One might well emphasize this. It happens, doesn’t it? Actually, everybody might be in on this Something Else, whether he wants it or not. Everyman is.»
— Extract from “A Something Else Manifesto,” Great Bear Pamphlet, 1966.
The Estate of Dick Higgins has launched DickHiggins.org, a great online resource on the artist's heritage.
Dick Higgins, Europa - Diaspora (Red), 1988
Silkscreen on cloth, 173 × 239 cm
Edition of 75; Edizioni Francesco Conz.
Dick Higgins, Europe - Repopulation (Green), 1988
Silkscreen on cloth, 175 × 236 cm
Edition of 75; Edizioni Francesco Conz.
Dick Higgins, Europe - War (Blue), 1988
Silkscreen on cloth, 176 × 232 cm
Edition of 75; Edizioni Francesco Conz.
Dick Higgins, Hommage to Africa, 1989
Silkscreen on cloth, 238 × 255 cm
Edition of 50 plus VIII AP; Edizioni Francesco Conz.
All the editions are available on www.edizioniconz.com.
📸Giorgia Palmisano
In remembrance of Jean Dupuy 1925 -2021
The Artist, the Poet, the Visionary, the Grammatologist. Jean Dupuy has departed, beyond the signifier.
Jean Dupuy
Where, 1989
Silkscreen on cloth
Edition of 8 plus I AP - Edizioni Francesco Conz
Jean Dupuy
There, 1989
Silkscreen on cloth
Edition of 8 plus I AP - Edizioni Francesco Conz
Jean Dupuy
Here, 1989
Silkscreen on cloth
Edition of 8 plus I AP - Edizioni Francesco Conz
Photos by Giorgia Palmisano.
In the last picture Jean Dupuy and Francesco Conz.
Photo by Wolfgang Träger.
#jeandupuy #anagrammist #where #there #here #fluxus #archivioconz #francescoconz
« Does poetry still matter today?»
« Why do you put the still? Yes, poetry is a still of today»
We are mourning the great poet, the publisher and painter, the friend of Francesco Conz, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed away to remain a still at the age of 101.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Take me home with you), 2008
Paint and marker on fabric.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Françoise Janicot
Il papa di niente, 2001
Print on Fabriano paper
Edition of 85 plus XII AP - Edizioni Francesco Conz
Available at www.edizioniconz.com.
📸Giorgia Palmisano
First and last picture from Archivio Conz collection.
#lawrenceferlinghetti #poetry #archivioconz #francescoconz
Happy Birthday to Eugen Gomringer having given a face to poetry and turning 96 years today, from the Archivio Conz!
Eugen Gomringer
Untitled, 1971-1990
Black marker on typewriter "Triumph Matura 50"
26.5 × 50.5 × 40.5 cm
#happybirthday #eugengomringer
An indexical alphabet of walking, of sound, of stillness, a typology of manifestations, a manifest of what once was called „sociological art“ - une Œuvre d’Art.
Thierry Agullo
Untitled, 1973
Iron, nails, marker and paint on pressboard, ink on paper
138 × 86 cm
Thierry Agullo
Untitled (180 "Protalons" - 8 categories - Envoi anonyme?), 1974
Iron, nails, marker and paint on pressboard
138 × 86 cm
#archivioconz #thierryagullo #alphabet #trace #sociologicalart
The original remains in the eyer of the beholder, but, once the difference between copy and original can not be distinguished anymore, art is dead, as Panofsky once stated, and he added: «it will not have died because of the reproduction». For Fluxus, for Dick Higgins, Art, the Original of the Copy, is for everyone.
Dick Higgins
Untitled, 1977
Print and ink on paper, cardboard, wood, glass.
#archivioconz #dickhiggins #sarenco #original #copy
Exposed for centuries in the cloisters of Asolo, now secularised but concealed for centuries in the Archivio Conz.
Dorothee von Windheim
Strappo ad Asolo, 1973 and pictures from the homonym book published by Pari & Dispari curated by Francesco Conz.
#archivioconz #dorotheevonwindheim #strappo #traces #asolo
𝐀vantgarde means learning to spell the alphabet - into the space.
Bohumila Grögerová
Lellera I-V, 1989
Ink, pencil on paper
30 × 21 cm
We are glad to present Wie zu Hause, Wo ich nicht bin an exhibition shaped after conversations between artists based in Geneva and Fluxus artists from Archivio Conz Berlin with special guests: Ahouloumeldem, Geraldo de Barros and Jérémy Dafflon.
Wie zu Hause, Wo ich nicht bin is the follow-up to the exhibition Fridges Are not Frigid held in September 2019 at the Archivio Conz Berlin. On that occasion, a group of eight students from the HEAD – Genève was asked to compose an exhibition as a dialogue between their works and those of Francesco Conz’ Fluxus archive. Mounted in the Project Space at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Wie zu Hause, Wo ich nicht bin is an expanded iteration of that event.
Linked to the history of the archive, Wie zu Hause, Wo ich nicht bin has been devised as the articulation between what Francesco Conz’s collection originally constituted and its impact today. In bringing out this impact in the exhibition, the aim is to fashion a way of reading the works that is not presided by appreciation of their historical continuum, but rather by the subtle affinities that they share, based on their commonalities and unpredictability. The works are not decontextualized, it is more a question of an actualization of the context of their appearance in the present moment, and the sense sparked of our relationship to history. Hence, the exhibition is conceived as a sensitive environment on the basis of being inhabited and embodied, to the point of reification, by Francesco Conz himself, by dint of an avatar present in this imagined collection formed by a selection of works from Archivio Conz Berlin combined with works produced for the occasion by eight international artists.
Opening: 17 September 2020, 18.00-21.00
Exhibition: 18 September - 11 October 2020
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#archivioconz #exhibition #centredartcontemporaingeneve #opening #HEAD #geraldodebarros
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10589
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ON MY BACK IS A LIE. ON MY CHEST IS THE TRUTH. Welcome to 7/11, acts and moves inspired to George Brecht’s Paradox. Let us offer you some contradictory gestures to unmask the counterfeit of each ideological scheme. The Paradox of alienation and estrangement. The Paradox of space and time. The Paradox of Eros & Death. The Paradox of identity. The Paradox of a lie so sincere it becomes a truth untold. The Paradox of the malleable grid in between reality and fiction. The Paradox of all questions unanswered, riddles unsolved, of all the lovers of all the parallel dimensions never encountered. Verfremdungseffekt, BEWILDERMENT. Questions answered with questions posed. The night that becomes the day that becomes the day that becomes—the night. PARADOX 7/11 VENEZIA, 7 - 11 MAY 2019 SERIES OF ACTS + GRAND FINALE ARCHIVIO CONZ, REIF.LIFE w/ GEORGE BRECHT, MARCELO ALCAIDE, FILIP BERG, MATILDE CERRUTI QUARA, VAVA DUDU, DOUGLAS GORDON, ISABEL LEWIS, STEFANIA PALUMBO, YAEL SALOMONOWITZ, OLYMPIA SCARRY, JEPPE UGELVIG, GIGIOTTO VON ALT, CIBELLE CAVALLI BASTOS, AVAF - CHRISTOPHE HAMAIDE PIERSON, GIOVANNI LEONARDO BASSAN, MICHÈLE LAMY, ESBEN WEILE Live updates on @archivioconz and @reif.life Thanks to Michèle Lamy, Shirin Marquart, Dani Morla, Giovanni Leonardo Bassan, Katkoot Italia, Bauer Palazzo Hotel, Ca d’Oro, CWG, Casa Dani, Galeria Giorgio Franchetti, Janet Fishgrund. For more info: [email protected] [email protected] FOLLOW THE PARADOX MOUTH TO MOUTH
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Spandauer Damm 22, CharlottenburgGalerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
Auguststraße 26Bauhaus - gesehen von / seen by Stefan Berg
Engeldamm 22