The Garden of Forking Paths (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783037642320)

During the summer months of 2011, the Migros Museum f r Gegenwartskunst inaugurated a sculpture project on the grounds of the Froh Ussicht estate in Samstagern, Zurich. The project was inspired by Bomarzo, the famous Italian Renaissance garden populated with fantastical and monstrous sculptures and follies (i.e. buildings constructed primarily for the embellishment of a landscape). Artists Pablo Bronstein, Liz Craft, Ida Ekblad, Geoffrey Farmer, Kerstin Kartscher, Ragnar Kjartansson, Fabian Marti, Peter Regli and Thiago Rocha Pitta all devised their own fantastical narratives in response to Bomarzo. The Garden of Forking Paths enlarges upon this innovative exhibition with reproductions of installed works, and essays by some of the finest architecture and garden theorists and writers on the history of follies and the interaction between art and garden: Lars Bang Larsen, Michael Bracewell, Horst Bredekamp, Brian Dillon, Patrick Eyres, Heike Munder, Anthony Vidler and Catherine Wood.

Author: Heike Munder
ISBN-10: 3037642327
ISBN-13: 9783037642320
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.10w x 0.80d