Der Büchergänger
- Location:
- Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Mailänder Platz 1, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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Video installation and object showcase by Edgar Harwardt in the city library on Mailänder Platz.
Stuttgart antiquarian bookseller, performance artist and poet Edgar Harwardt has been working artistically on, under, above and with the construction site of the city library since 1996. Since May 2000, he has entitled the works created in this context "biblio-terra". From "biblio-terra", Harwardt's "BAU BUCH BIBLIOTHEK" grew and unfolded in a literary-artistic parallel process since the start of construction at the end of 2008, culminating in the "Stadtquerung auf Büchern" ("City Crossing on Books") action from the old to the new city library at the end of August 2011. The book, not only as a real object, but especially as an artistic real symbol, plays a central and multifaceted role in Harwardt's life and work.
Guided tours of the exhibition with the artist, on request by e-mail to karten.stadtbibliothek@stuttgart.de | Film material and realization of the video installation: Jost Schrader