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Lothar Baumgarten

Lothar Baumgarten (born 1944) was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Düsseldorf. His work includes installation and film. Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited Brazil and Venezuela, and these visits resulted in works such as Terra Incognita, a three-dimensional diagram of the frontier between the two countries. He represented Germany at the 1984 Venice Biennale, where his work consisted of the names Amazonian peoples engraved on a marble floor and filled with resin.

Lothar Baumgarten (born 1944) was a German conceptual artist, based in New York and Düsseldorf. His work includes installation and film. Between 1977 and 1986 Baumgarten visited Brazil and Venezuela, and these visits resulted in works such as Terra Incognita, a three-dimensional diagram of the frontier between the two countries. He represented Germany at the 1984 Venice Biennale, where his work consisted of the names Amazonian peoples engraved on a marble floor and filled with resin.

Seven Sounds, Seven Circles
* Sold out at the source, last copies around * April 2007. On a wooded peninsula jutting into the Hudson River near Beacon, New York, Lothar Baumgarten sets up his recording equipment and waits for night to fall. For the next eighty minutes, he captures the sounds of a landscape haunted by overlapping histories: the shrieking and croaking of native fauna, the distant clatter of an Amtrak train, the hum of resurgent nature reclaiming the ruins of industry. This is Denning's Point - once home to t…
America Señores Naturales
** Artist book. Hardcover, 64 pages, 37 B&W illustrations, 16 color illustrations. ** America Señores Naturales retraces the history of one of Lothar Baumgarten’s most famous site-specific interventions from 1984, Señores Naturales, and uses it as a point of departure to explore some of the key concepts that have shaped his oeuvre.  In a newly commissioned essay, “Ground, Map, Floor: The Site and the Subject of Lothar Baumgarten’s Señores Naturales”, author Joanna Vickery-Barkow retraces the imp…
Autofocus Retina
** 2021 Stock. English Version ** The son of an anthropologist, Lothar Baumgarten spent several years living with an indigenous tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon region. In the late 1960s, he became one of the first artists to introduce representations of minority cultures into the Western cultural sphere. The contributors to this anthology offer different readings of Baumgarten's work, addressing the legacies of colonialism and modern anthropology, and also of documentary photography and site-spec…
Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking** Hard-cover. Cloth boards issued without dust jacket offset-printed sewn bound. Critical anthology of the art journal Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were redrawn at Documenta that year. The review was of considerable importance as a vehicle for propagating pro-European ideas and as a union between …
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