Joachim Elzmann »Mikado«

»The idea of the Mikado game mirrors the contrast between immobility and motion, construction and deconstruction, and the highest degree of concentration and the utmost lightness and delicate elegance. Elzmann transcends all these into an outstanding image of balance.«
(Reinhard Spieler, Joachim Elzmann – Mikado, in Joachim Elzmann »Mikado«, Köln 2007)

Artist: Joachim Elzmann
Editor: Andy Lim
Text: Reinhard Spieler, Rafael von Uslar
Design: Andy Lim, Lukas Roth

German
Hardcover, 24,5 x 30,5 cm
64 pages, 61 illustrations

Available works of the artist

Joachim Elzmann, Venus, 2012

Joachim Elzmann, Zitronenschiff, 2000

Joachim Elzmann, Kugel', 2005

Joachim Elzmann, Eisenbaum, 2001

Associated exhibition

Joachim Elzmann. Mikado

Dusseldorf / 2 June – 24 August 2007

A frozen column of water gushes down into the room from above into a delicate mass. Or, is it a cold, frozen airstream that seems to flow upwards through the opening in the roof? Ethereal and tra...

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