{"product_id":"14609-gerhard-merz","title":"Gerhard Merz","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreoccupation with the theory and practice of architecture has been of central importance for Gerhard Merz\u0026#39;s artistic work from the very beginning. In his spatial installations created at the end of the 1980s, he placed monochrome wall paintings, architectural elements and pieces of writing in a context of a total work of art. His idea was to achieve a synthesis of painting and architecture. It therefore resembled a manifesto when the artist put the words \u0026quot;Ed io anche sono architetto\u0026quot; (\u0026quot;And I\u0026#39;m also an architect\u0026quot;) on one of his writing-paintings in 1992. At the 1997 Venice Biennale he redesigned the interior of the German pavilion. Immediately afterwards, a building owner in Hartha near Dresden offered him the chance to realise his architectural vision of bodies, space and light. In a combined office and Werkdokumente series, the \u0026#39;unrelenting aesthete\u0026#39; pits measurement and number, proportion and clarity, geometry and symmetry against the arbitrariness and thoughtlessness of today\u0026#39;s building styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44425499443464,"sku":"9783775708142","price":12.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775708142_7cb6e6c3-dc8f-450c-b55e-5d11180803cd.jpg?v=1744067623","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/14609-gerhard-merz","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}