{"product_id":"18028-jochen-gerz","title":"Jochen Gerz","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen billboards by Jochen Gerz, each presenting a new motif every month, were on view in the city of Weimar for more than seven months. The artist positioned his \u0026quot;messages\u0026quot; within the context of the \u0026quot;Light on Weimar\u0026quot; project at the railway station and the Gauforum, at the Schloss and the Hotel Elephant, at Goethe\u0026#39;s house and on the side wall of the Schillerhaus. Each panel confronted viewers with a large visual image and a lengthy text. Gerz told a story from which a rumour linking Belvedere and the Tower of Buchenwald gradually emerged. He wrote and illustrated a fictional narrative that ran behind, alongside and ahead of the everyday life of the city of Weimar, winding and spinning a web around it. The artist\u0026#39;s fictitious commission to investigate the rumour of the \u0026quot;Light on Weimar\u0026quot; was in actuality a commission from the curator, who thus created a bond between the artist and the city and posed Gerz the task of realising a project for the \u0026quot;Kulturstadt Europas 1999\u0026quot; program - a fictional story focused on a specific objective: a discussion of possible approaches to coming to grips with the lyrical promise of salvation expressed in German Classicism and the crimes of Fascism next door, in Buchenwald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526202089736,"sku":"9783775790048","price":10.12,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775790048_de66a1e1-7eaa-4973-8724-edd4341a3a7e.jpg?v=1744103775","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/18028-jochen-gerz","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}