Martin Disler was a self-taught Swiss painter, draughtsman, sculptor, author and publisher. Born into a family of gardeners in the canton of Solothurn in 1949, Disler attended a boarding school in Stans, from which he was expelled in 1968. The following year he had his first studio in Solothun together with the painter Agnes Barmettler…
Belgian artist Thierry De Cordier (1954) was once gifted a small book with the hand written title ‘Heracleitos’ on the cover. The booklet, barely eight pages, contained in Dutch texts by Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose original writings are lost and who is only known through the quotations of later authors. At the time, De Cordier read these ‘Fragments of Heraclitus’ superficially without…
Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013) was a Dutch composer, theatremaker, theorist and teacher. Raaijmakers studied the piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the early 1950s before doing research at Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in Eindhoven. There Raaijmakers had the liberty to experiment with popular electronic music and became one of the pioneers in that field under the pseudonym of Kid Baltan. Raaijmakers worked as a…
The late artist Mike Kelley and writers John Sinclair and Amiri Baraka recommended this long sold-out book as follows:
I smell bacon
As a teenager, I discovered the work of Emory Douglas in the pages of the…
This bilingual edition contains the transcript of an interview of Mike Kelley by Thomas Kellein, then director of Kunsthalle Basel, before an audience at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1992. The English conversation is printed in black, its German translation in red. Several landmark works and installations that Kelley put together in the late…