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Thomas Zipp: Achtung! Vision~ISBN 3-7757-1697-1 U.S. $48.00 / Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 137 color and 4 b&w. ~Item / February / Art

This book documents Thomas Zipp's (born 1966) contribution to the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. For the occasion, the German artist constructed a replica of a psychiatric unit, playing the part of both patient and doctor himself.

The catalog documents an exhibition in which artist Thomas Zipp transformed the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, the oldest museum on the European continent, into a psychedelic and ecstatic room. The artist has christened the experience of the ecstasy that can be activated through dance, music, or drugs 'White Dada' and the performance of same the Ritatin treatment. A setting using sculptures, drawings, portraits, Hammond organs and other objects--inside a sort of chapel, complete with benches and confessionals--waits to find its inner sound through music and performance.

This sophisticated exhibition catalogue dedicated to the Berlin-based installation artist Thomas Zipp features vellum inserts, a fold-out poster and die-cut and hand-torn pages, giving it the precise feeling of actually walking through one of Zipp's famously sinister-seeming installations.

Text by Dominikus Muller, Karsten Lockemann, Stephan Urbaschek, Katharina Vossenkuhl. Introduction by Ingvild Goetz.