ARTIST BOOK This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Videos and Picnic' by Yorgos Sapountzis in the Ursula Blickle Stiftung May 20 - July 8 2012 and The Gadfly Festival at Westfalischer Kunsteverin June 16-Sep[tember 2, 2012 Germany.
256pp designed by the artist Texts in English/German by Rosalyn Deutsche, Chris Kraus, Veit Loers, Willem de Rooij (interview) and Katja Schroeder. Illustrated throughout wiith b/w and colour photographs of installations etc, VG in red linen covers.

In his work, Yorgos Sapountzis appropriates public space and the statues, monuments, and memorials that inhabit it. The Athens born artist concentrates less on their historical political meanings and much more on their function as a medium of recollection. Sapountzis consciously tries to ignore historical information about the sculptures and instead allows them to "speak2 through their gestures, poses, and ornaments. This is an in-depth survey of his work from 2000 to the present. Key source.