Ed Sommer
Planetare Allianz

Editor(s)

Peter Weibel

Author(s)

Gillo Dorfles, Holger Jost, Kurt Leonhard, Marc Adrian, Peter Weibel, Yong Sa

Design

Holger Jost, Neckarhausen

Size

22,5 x 23

Pages

176

Illustrations

200

Cover

Softcover

Language(s)

German

ISBN

978-3-947563-10-4

A Monograph on the Pioneer of Op Art

The complex and extraordinary work of the Schwäbisch Gmünd-based artist Ed Sommer (1932–2015), who preferred to call himself a Bildsprachenmaler (painter of visual imagery), includes metal objects, formations of acrylic glass, gestural painting, erotic films, projection photography, dialogical portraits, and spoken texts. In 2014, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe added a large number of works by the artist to its collection. This publication now presents the collection holdings, supplemented by further works by Ed Sommer.

Ed Sommer, together with his artist friend Marc Adrian, was one of the most important representatives of op and kinetic art and received considerable attention in the 1970s with his films and photographs.

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