{"product_id":"franz-west-museum-haus-lange-heft-1-2-krefelder-kunstmuseen-1989","title":"FRANZ WEST — Museum Haus Lange, Heft 1 \u0026 Heft 2, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, 1989","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition publication in two parts, Franz West. Krefelder Kunstmuseen \/ Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1989. Two stapled softcover booklets, approx. 21 × 15 cm: Heft 1, 20 pages; Heft 2, 12 pages. Texts by Julian Heynen and Ferdinand Schmatz; photographs by Günther Förg. Printed by Graphischer Betrieb Karl Pfitt, Oberhausen. ISBN 3-925530-37-5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished for the exhibition at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 9 April – 18 June 1989, curated by Julian Heynen. The Franz West archive bibliography records the publication as Heft 1 and 2, with texts by Heynen and Schmatz and photographs by Förg. Basis Wien records the exhibition under installation, sculpture, and object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two booklets divide the exhibition’s material between them: Heft 1 carries installation photographs — West’s wire-frame chairs, sculptural seating forms, and textile works installed in the Mies van der Rohe house — alongside Heynen’s essay and a poem by Vittorio Martini. Heft 2 carries Schmatz’s extended prose text on chairs, sitting, and social space, with footnotes citing Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Lacan, and Lévy-Strauss, and a glossary of French furniture terms. The orange wrappers carry the text on their covers as well as inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong early West publication from the moment his work was moving from the \u003cem\u003ePassstücke\u003c\/em\u003e toward furniture, seating, social use, and sculpture as something completed through the viewer. Haus Lange is especially relevant: a Mies van der Rohe house turned contemporary exhibition site, where domestic architecture, museum display, and usable sculpture meet directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare register, this is not only a catalogue. It is a small two-part support system for an exhibition: one booklet carrying the installation image, the other carrying text, instruction, language, and theory. West’s chairs and sculptural forms are shown inside a former private house, photographed by another artist, then redistributed as printed matter. Furniture becomes sculpture; exhibition becomes booklet; use becomes record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light handling, minor rubbing, faint edge wear, and age toning. Staples intact. The orange wrappers remain bright. Ships flat in a rigid mailer with tracking; international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Krefelder Kunstmuseen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53886813372754,"sku":"WEST-HAUSLANGE-CAT-1989","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/West_Franz._Franz_West._Issue_1_and_issue_2_for_the_exhibition_Museum_Haus_Lange.._Krefeld._1989_f1dd2787-0e84-4353-92df-50a4703d3810.jpg?v=1782837799","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/franz-west-museum-haus-lange-heft-1-2-krefelder-kunstmuseen-1989","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}