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Daniel Knorr - Led R. Nanirok

Artist

Daniel Knorr

Date

2009

Publisher

Kunsthalle Basel

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

ISBN

978-3-0376-4078-4

Size

13 × 18 × 2 cm

Length

293 

This monograph on the Berlin-based, Romanian artist Daniel Knorr, was published as an independent project alongside Knorr’s comprehensive survey exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel in 2009.

Alongside a selection of his works Knorr also included studies for unrealized projects and to accompany six newly commissioned essays. Texts include the Romanian poet and writer Bogdan Ghiu’s examination of the materialization and “politicization” in Knorr’s practice as well as Belgian art editor, curator and critic Dieter Roelstraete’s, look at Knorr’s use of found objects in the context of the transition to market economy in the Eastern European countries. The young Romanian curator and urban theorist, editor of “Architext” magazine in Bucarest, Alina Serban, provides a background analysis of the recent development of cities and architecture in post-Ceaucescu Romania, which are among the fundamental reference points for some of Knorr’s sculptures and photographs. Attila Torday-S., co-founder and for many years editor of the Romanian art magazine Idea, emphasizes in his text the future potential of Daniel Knorr’s work and, while drawing inspiration from his current production, he presents a scenario for the artist’s possible development. Adam Szymczyk, director of Kunsthalle Basel, and Rein Wolfs, director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, curators of Daniel Knorr’s exhibitions at both institutions respectively, present both exhibitions in an introductory text.