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Article: "Transformer": Bruce Hainley on the wild side.(Popisms)
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- Artforum International
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- October 1, 2004
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"Pop After Pop" assumes that I know what "Pop" is, that I know what "Art" means. I don't.
Take, for example, "Transformer": Aspekte der Travestie," curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, which ran from mid-March to mid-April 1974 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, traveled, to Graz and to Bochum, and then, basically, disappeared into a poof of fairy dust. (I've found nothing other than the catalogue to prove the show existed--no ads, no international reviews, although there must have been some local art notices.) Incorporating and inspired by the work of Urs Luthi, Luciano Castelli, Katharina Sieverding, Jurgen Klauke, Werner Alex Meyer, Luigi Ontani, Walter Pfeiffer, Marco, ...