For several objects with cigarette stubs Ingeborg Lüscher merges old books and their literary collections of knowledge, narratives and memories from the 19th and early 20th century (like Jakob Christoph Heer’s Swiss alp novels) with the leftovers of nowadays individual experience, represented by hundreds and thousands of stubs.
Renate Petzinger 1993
IL151.1 – IL151.5
Objects with stubs
70/43 – 70/47, 1970
Verstummelungen
70/43 – 70/47, 1970
5 books (Heer’s gesammelte Werke, Band I – V), cigarette stubs, glue, nitro lacquer, page 145 ripped out and mounted between two panels of acrylic glass, brass screws
7 x 17.5 x 27 cm (volume I)
3.5 x 17.5 x 27 cm (volume II)
8.5 x 26.5 x 19 cm (volume III)
6 x 13 x 19 cm (volume IV)
12 x 13 x 19 cm (volume V)
21.5 x 15 x 1.2 cm (acrylic glass)
Recto lower middle on page 145 Verstummelungen 70/43-47
5 Bände „Heer“ I. Lüscher
Catalogues
Wiesbaden 1993, p 87
Texts
Lüscher 1972, p 46. Tempelmann 1972, pp 77-78. Curiger 1973. Neuburg 1973. Ruperti 1973. Welti 1981, p 49. Stutzer 1990, p 25. Szeemann 1991, p 215. Händler 1993, p 164. Künzler-Schmidt 1993, p 7. Rattemeyer 1993, p 35. McEvilley 1995. Lüscher 1996, pp 74-76. Kohlmeyer 1997, p 6. Herzog 1999, p 16. Stolz 2014. Vögele 2016, p 19
Photography
Renate Petzinger