IS NOT EMBARRASSING: KIPPENBERGER AS EXEMPLARY SUBJECT Tom McDonough on “Martin Kippenberger: Everything is Everywhere” by Chris Reitz
Everything is Everywhere: a seemingly all-encompassing alliteration that could have been the title of a Martin Kippenberger painting. Here, it is the subtitle of Chris Reitz’s book, the first scholarly monograph on the West German artist written in English, and it’s used to reference his system of reference: an artistic practice in which almost every one of Kippenberger’s projects seems to be linked to every other part of his hyperbolic art-making scheme. As Tom McDonough lays out in his book review, this system is expertly unpacked by Reitz and, moreover, related to a shifting art market and social world. Linking Kippenberger’s work to the emerging neoliberal order in the German Wirtschaftswunderland is, according to McDonough, an important break from previous interpretive paradigms made by those who were close to the artist.
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