• Isa Genzken — Verlag Silke Schreiber, 1988 — hardback monograph cover, glass door and stone pillar exterior, installation view reflected in glass
  • interior spread: Isa Genzken — 1988 monograph interior, black and white photograph of a young Isa Genzken standing beside large concrete block sculptures outdoors, bare winter trees
  • Interior spread: Isa Genzken — Rheinbrücke, 1983, Lack auf Holz, 120 x 90 x 30 cm — black and white photograph of lacquered wood sculpture on metal stand, two curved cylindrical forms
  • Interior spread: Isa Genzken — Weltempfänger, 1982, 38 x 52 x 22 cm — black and white photograph of Panasonic world receiver radio on tall white plinth
  • Interior spread: Isa Genzken — installation view Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln 1982 — four ear photographs mounted on wall above two elongated steel rods on floor, HIFI-Serie 1979
  • Interior text page: Isa Genzken — 1988 monograph page 103, essay text with black and white photograph of El Lissitzky Wolkenbügel 1923, Moskauer Nikitzki-Platz
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Verlag Silke Schreiber

ISA GENZKEN — Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 1988

ISA GENZKEN — Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 1988

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Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 1988. Hardcover with cloth spine, approx. 24 × 28 cm, 112 pp., 65 black-and-white and colour illustrations. German and English.

Published to accompany a touring exhibition across venues in Bonn, Winterthur, and Rotterdam. Text by Klaus Honnef.

A substantial early monograph on Isa Genzken surveying her sculpture and installation work from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s — the period in which she developed her signature formal language: elongated concrete and epoxy forms, architectural references, and a rigorous engagement with space, material, and scale.

Honnef’s critical essay situates Genzken’s practice in relation to architectural modernism, drawing connections to El Lissitzky, Mart Stam, and the ABC group. The illustrations document key works including Rheinbrücke (1983), Weltempfänger (1982), and the Kölnischer Kunstverein installation (1982), alongside earlier concrete sculptures photographed in situ.

The cover reproduces a photograph of a glass door reflecting one of Genzken’s sculptures. The pale green cloth spine is characteristic of Verlag Silke Schreiber’s production values of the period. An important and now scarce document of Genzken’s early career, published before her international profile was fully established.

Condition: Very good. Clean and tight throughout with light shelf wear consistent with age. Original period publication.

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