Sherrie Levine — Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 1988

Texts by Dieter Schwarz and Sherrie Levine (A Simple Heart), published in English and German.

Produced for Sherrie Levine’s May 1988 exhibition at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, shortly after Rosemarie Schwarzwälder assumed ownership of the gallery and expanded its programme around international conceptual and post-minimal practices. By this point Levine had established herself as one of the defining figures of the Pictures Generation through works such as After Walker Evans, fundamentally reshaping debates around originality, authorship, and appropriation.

The publication documents this pivotal moment, reproducing key photographic and geometric works from the 1980s alongside critical writing and Levine’s literary intervention, A Simple Heart — itself an appropriation of Gustave Flaubert’s famous parrot narrative. More than a straightforward exhibition catalogue, the book belongs to a generation of publications that carried postmodern discourse beyond the gallery walls.

During the late 1980s, printed catalogues were essential vehicles through which conceptual art circulated internationally, functioning simultaneously as exhibition record, theoretical text, and portable artwork. Many remained in academic collections or institutional libraries, making well-preserved trade copies increasingly uncommon today.

A compact but significant publication from one of the defining artists of late twentieth-century conceptual practice, documenting a period when appropriation art moved from controversy into the centre of contemporary art history.

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