Konkrete Oberflächen (Concrete Surfaces)
Vincent Grunwald and Wilhelm Kotzek
AKV Berlin
German
Hardback
52 pages
200 x 270 mm
2011
ISBN 9783433029893
Both texts in this book are based on a script for a radio feature, aired in 2010 in Argentina. The linking element between the two texts is the use of concrete as a material. Vincent Grunwalds text “Investorenlandschaft” (Investors Landscape) shows a diverse picture of a process which is local, but at the same time international: Changes of urban space in favor of capitalistic thinking, drugged voices from nowhere that spell imaginary penthouse prices and youth who are hanging around construction sites.
Wilhelm Klotzeks “Betonplastiken im Gespräch” (Concrete sculptures in Conversation) deals with the treatment of concrete sculptures in the territory of the former GDR. The concrete sculptures are guests in a talk show where they have a debate about demontage, political responsibility and guilt.
(Source: https://www.akvberlin.com/books/konkrete-oberflaechen)
About the Artist
Vincent Grunwald is a Berlin-based artist who works in a variety of media including drawing, video, and installation as well as mural painting. Vincent was greatly influenced by graffiti culture when he was a teenager. He studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2006, followed by a year at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, he founded the art book label AKV Berlin with other artists of the same generation in Berlin, and has been actively producing art books.
(Source: https://www.tokyoartbeat.com/en/events/-/Vincent-Grunwald)
Wilhelm Klotzek (*1980, East Berlin) lives and works in Berlin. His last solo shows, inter alia, were, “Der Pudding der Apocalypse” (2019), Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig; “Donationsdystopien” (2017), Institut für Kunst und Kontext, Berlin; as well as “Fast nur Haut, Margarine” (2017), Memphis, Linz.
wilhelmklotzek.de
(Source: https://www.klosterfeldeedition.de/en/wilhelm-klotzek/)
About the Publisher
AKV Berlin was an art book collective run by Anna Szaflarski, Kevin Kemter, Max Stocklosa and Vincent Grunwald from 2008 to 2021. After the dissolution of the core group in April 2021, AKV Berlin continues to exist as a shell that is indefinitely in a reorientation phase which is currently accompanied by Max Stocklosa.
akvberlin.com
(Source: https://www.akvberlin.com/general)
