February 2001

New acquisitions from Armleder to Zittel

John M Armleder, Daniele Buetti, Sylvie Fleury, Joseph Kosuth, Gerold Miller, Kirsten Mosher, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Ugo Rondinone, Franz Erhard Walther, Andrea Zittel

Gerold Miller, Sylvie Fleurie, Kirsten Mosher
Gerwald Rockenschaub,
Franz Erhard Walther
John M Armleder

 back to overview

Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel
*1965 Escondido, Kalifornien, lives in Altadena (Cal.) and New York

Rendition of A-Z Pit Bed,
Customized by the Daimler Art Collection, 1995 wood, carpet

In 1992 Andrea Zittel started to make "Living Units" as a reaction to her cramped New York apartment and as a result of intense studies of different forms of living. "At the same time she was alluding to the furniture designs of Rodtschenko and Tatlin from the early twenties, who also distinctly pursued the notion of practicability and functionalism..." (Zdenek Felix)

"A-Z ... is a mission to learn more about our values, our needs, and how we choose the roles we play. ... By leaving it to the collector to intervene in the interior design of this habitable object, she clearly conceives of artworks in terms of an object used in privacy, or even privation." (cat. documenta X, short guide)

back to overview