Author Description

This comprehensive exhibition catalogue traces Peter Weibels artistic development as an internationally renowned media artist and conceptual artist from the beginnings (1964) through to the middle phase (1979) of his work. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet and was soon transferring the structures of the visual culture from the page to the screen, at the same time retaining the model of language as a model of perception in the sense of structuralist and post-structuralist methods. Thanks to this linguistic input into his visual media works, he developed a critical impulse that turned not only against art but also against society and the media itself. This specific development from the page via the screen to gallery space--all happening as early as the 1960s--anticipated many of the trends that were later to be described as conceptual art, context art, institutional criticism, and intervention.