The Exhibition Speaker

"Twenty years in the making, The Climbers shares a stunning collection of images of some of the icons of mountaineering *Portraits that reveal the core of their remarkable subjects *A visual history of special significance to climbers of all ages *Beautifully packaged in a cloth slip case to enhance its collectability. For nearly 2 decades, professional photographer Jim Herrington has been working on a portrait series of influential rock and mountain climbers. The Climbers documents these rugged individualists who, from roughly the 1930s to 1970s, used primitive gear along with their considerable wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. Today, these men and women are renowned for their past accomplishments and, in many cases, are the last of the remaining practitioners from the so-called Golden Age of 20th century climbing."--

Katharina Grosse has created a spectacular walk in installation, almost 800 m2 in size, in a hall of the Museum Kunstpalast, using masses of earth, paint and lengths of fabric.This catalogue also documents her most recent paintings. Like the installations, they also take on remarkable dimensions, sometimes up to 36 m2, and break out of the pictorial space by the means of colour expansion.The catalogue was designed in close cooperation with the artist and published to coincide with the exhibition Inside the Speaker at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 30 September - 1 February 2014-15.Text in English / Dutch.