With Kunstmuseen Krefeld’s exhibition dialogue Adolf Luther / Julio Le Parc: Interactive Spatial Experiences, two visionary positions met at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange and Haus Esters: Krefeld native Adolf Luther (1912–1990, Krefeld) and French-Argentine artist Julio Le Parc (b. 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina, now living in Paris). Both artists use their installation-based works to break down the boundaries between art and its viewers. The interactivity and experimental character of both artistic approaches express their sociopolitical agendas. The catalogue duo documents all of the works displayed. Also contained in the publications are essays by internationally renowned art historians that shed new light on Luther and Le Parc. In addition, writings by both artists, some previously unpublished, usher readers into a deeper understanding of the radical nature of their approaches. This is the first German-language monograph on Julio Le Parc in fifty years.


Text by Katia Baudin, Magdalena Broska, Juliane Duft and Bettina Kames for Adolf Luther. Text by Katia Baudin, Bettina Kames, Serge Lemoine for Julio Le Parc.


Text in English and German.