Competing Projects 2025
Lygia Clark & Franz Erhard Walther Action as SculptureDISTANZ Verlag
The publication Action as Sculpture (Handlung als Skulptur) stages an encounter between two key figures in the recent history of art whose oeuvres revolutionized the role of the beholder. Although Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther never met in person and despite their works being different in many ways, the participatory approaches they developed almost simultaneously reveal fundamental similarities.
The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the VILLA Franz Erhard Walther. It focuses on works from the 1960s and 1970s, the period during which both Clark and Walther changed the relationship between art and audience in their respective cultural contexts by redefining object, form, authorship, and aesthetic experience. With essays by Jessica Gogan, Daniela Labra, Luis Perez-Oramas, Irene Small, Gregory Williams, and a foreword by Susanne Walther.
