Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Tadashi Kawamata

As Part Of A New Approach To Collecting, Kunsthaus Zug Made An Agreement With Tadashi Kawamata For A Collaboration Over Several Years. Instead Of Increasing The Gallery’S Material Stock, It Involved Realising An Unusual Project In Public Space. As A Result, Since 1996 The Japanese Artist Has Created Various Wooden Installations As Stages Of His Work In Progress In Zug. Together They Mark Out A Path Linking The Kunsthaus, The Old Town And The Lakeside Area. It Begins With A Wooden Pathway At Burgbachplatz, Which Leads Out From The Museum, The Aesthetic Refuge Of Art, Into The City And Ends In A Park-Like Idyll With A Footpath At “Brüggli”. You Can Look Back Down On The City From A Wooden Platform. In Between Are An Arena At Landsgemeindeplatz Laid Out Like An Amphitheatre And Ten Little Bathing Huts On The Lakeshore Beach, With A Board Wall Like A Hedge That Screens Off The Bathing Area. With A Photo-Essay By Guido Baselgia, This Book Documents Kawamata’S Four Years Of Work: A Trip Through Zug That Invites Us “To A Walk Along The Borders Between Nature And Culture” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). The Artist: Tadashi Kawamata, Born 1953 In Hokkaido, Japan. Numerous Exhibitions, Including 1982 Venice Biennale; Participant In Documenta Viii And Ix In Kassel.