Ready to Shoot Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum videogalerie schum
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- 2003
- 336 pages
- 30 x 22,5 cm
- 50 colour and 300 b/w illustrations
- softcover with flaps
- ISBN: 978-3-936859-06-5
- Edition: German
- Institution: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- Edited by: Ulrike Groos, Barbara Hess and Ursula Wevers
- Texts by: Beatrice von Bismarck, Eric de Bruyn, Ulrike Groos, Charles Harrison, Barbara Hess, Ursula Wevers, an interview with Friedrich Wolfram Heubach
- Design: Kühle und Mozer, Köln
No phenomenon of the certainly not uncolourful late 60s and early 70s appeared so radical and at the same time so innovative as Gerry Schum (1938–1973) and his Television and Video Gallery. He was the first who gives contemporary art spectacular mass exposure on German television (which boasted just two channels at that time), thereby writing both art and television history. He was also the one who gave the name to an entire art movement with his film “Land Art” and one who introduced the use of the then totally new media of film and video in contemporary art. In a unique manner using all the original material – even including invitations, posters, edition certificates and a large scale of documentary photos from the archive of Schum’s work companion and partner Ursula Wevers – the catalogue trace the first complete retrospective of one of the most important and complex art projects of the late 60s and early 70s. Documented here are not only the two “television exhibitions” and “Land Art” (broadcast by Sender Freies Berlin on Germany’s 1st channel on 15/4/1969; featuring contributions by Richard Long, Barry Flanagan, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Marinus Boezem, Jan Dibbets, Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer) and “Identifications” (broadcast by SWF Baden-Baden on Germany’s 1st channel on 30/11/1970; featuring contributions by Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brown, Daniel Buren, Piero Calzolari, Gino de Dominicis, Ger van Elk, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Gary Kuehn, Mario Merz, Klaus Rinke, Ulrich Rückriem, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, and Gilberto Zorio). Great detail is also shed on early production assignments – short pieces for television such as “TV as a Fireplace” (1969) by Jan Dibbets and “TV Project Self Burial” (1969) by Keith Arnatt plus all the editions of Schum’s Videogalerie in Düsseldorf (1970–1973).
Exhibitions:
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 14/12/03–14/3/04
Casion de Luxembourg, 27/3–6/6/04
Museu de Arte Contemporánea de Seralves, Porto, 23/7–3/10/04
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 23/10–28/11/04
Norwich Gallery, 12/1–26/2/05
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporánea, Sevilla, 6/4–12/6/05
