Olaf Nicolai

Beschrijving

Tent. Zürich, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 31-03-2001, 20-05-2001. - Monografie toont installaties van de Duitse kunstenaar Olaf Nicolai. - Berlin-based artist Olaf Nicolai focuses on the perfect combination of high art, pop and visual design. No matter if its Pantone-colors are set to music or laboriously hand-crafted giant sneakers - his works gain an inherent personality and added value from Nicolai's unusually emotional, associative approach. The resulting objects are always approachable but never one-dimensional, and require the viewer to define his own position by questioning common perception processes. Enjoy Survive is based on the artist's first exhibition at the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art (Zurich), designed by Norm and accompanied by compositions of the established electronic band To Rococo Rot and perfectly exemplifying Nicolai's foremost production principle -- the visual and musical reflection of quoted content