We saw this Martin Kippenberger piece at MOMA and couldn't resist goofing on it. Especially, when the sister related this story about the artist:
The Kippenberger story is that when the internet was just a "newborn," in '97, I contacted a German woman online for housing upon my arrival in Cologne/Koln. I rented a room in her flat for the first week I was there that was most recently occupied by Kippenberger as his studio. She was devoted to him and put up a website (when websites were new) documenting his work and the many places around Cologne/the world that he frequented and/or held court. I helped her with some of the translations for the site. The other thing is that Kippenberger is a GOD in the German contemporary artworld but is only marginally represented in the US. In the last Carnegie International, they gave the whole sculpture court over to him (posthumously) for his "Kafka/Amerika" installation but he's just now gaining that ground on this side of the pond. Christina, my friend w/ the room, is a pretty accomplished digital/conceptual artist in her own right.
Kippenberger Doppleganger |
Guess TBP prolly wasn't hip to the pre-Mosaic Lynx browser circa 92/93. The web -- before pictures -- hard to imagine there was ever a time . . . .
That said, I'm looking forward to NuMOMA. I'll be sad, though, if Christina's World has moved. I always thought Wyeth was middle-brow until I came upon that canvas at the top of the stairs (even if it did and does make me think that it's what Wheaties boxes would look like if General Mills decorated their products like Celestial Seasonings.)