In 69 / 96, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas enter an inter-generational dialog about exhibitions that is both personal and art historical, presenting works from 1969 and 1996 (catalogue).
69 / 96 documents an exhibition organized by Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Bob Nickas, presented in Switzerland in 2014. Structured as two shows in parallel, 69 brought together art works from 1969, chosen by the American curator, Bob Nickas, while 96 featured works from 1996 selected by the Swiss curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen. For Nickas, 1969 marks his earliest entry point into what has become a lifelong pursuit of the art of his time, just as for Fischli and Olsen, 1996 marks the beginning of their own engagement with art and artists. The sense of temporal overlay in the exhibition continues in this new publication in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey, with a third layer of images and information. The left-hand pages in 69 / 96 reproduce pages from a xerox catalog edited by Bob Nickas in 1991. This accompanied his exhibition of works from 1969, held at Daniel Newburg Gallery in New York. The right-hand pages and double-page spreads document the collaborative 69/96 exhibit in 2014.
Works by
Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager,
Robert Barry, Larry Clark, Franz Gertsch,
Dan Graham,
Hans Haacke,
On Kawara,
Olivier Mosset, Bruce Nauman,
Albert Oehlen, Meret Oppenheim,
Sigmar Polke,
Gerhard Richter,
Allen Ruppersberg,
Ed Ruscha,
Andy Warhol, Karlheinz Weinberger,
Lawrence Weiner,
La Monte Young,
Marian Zazeela, et al.
Working independently, Robert Nickas has realized more than forty exhibitions for galleries and museums since 1984. He recently co-curated the
Biennale of Lyon in France (with the
Consortium team), is an editor of
Artforum, and a Guest Curator at P.S.1 in New York.
His writings and interviews have appeared in
Afterall and
Sound Collector, as well as in numerous catalogues and monographs - Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
On Kawara,
Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland,
Andy Wharol.
