Atelier Van Lieshout

texts Jennifer Allen ; Aaron Betsky ; Rudi Laermans ; Wouter Vanstiphout

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Author(s)

Jennifer Allen, Aaron Betsky, Rudi Laermans, Wouter Vanstiphout

Publication, year

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2007

Scope

332 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

9789056624828

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This new overview brings readers into AVL's contrarian applied art via luxuriously appointed "mobile homes," autonomous communes and surreal art projects, with equal time given to AVL-Ville (2001), a "free state" in Rotterdam's port, complete with its own flag, its own constitution and its own currency, and the revealing minutia of AVL's portfolio, from furniture to the "Bar Rectum," a perverse take on the Oscar-Meyer Weiner Mobile. The idea of art that can be used for a self-sufficient and independent lifestyle hits a uniquely high point in AVL-Ville, a culmination of all the work AVL has done before.

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Person as subject

Atelier Van Lieshout

Location

Cabinet 5 - 3: Kunstenaars

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References