Romantic Conceptualism

The illustrated publication includes work by 23 international artists of different generations that stand witness to the fact that the reflection on the Romantic is not just a negligible, minor aspect of the Conceptual, but central to it. The exhibits – from early 1960s works to exclusive new productions – bring into play a partly emphatic, partly critically humorous perspective onto romantic motifs (desire, melancholia) and methods (the fragmentary, ephemeral and processual). They thwart the conventional opposition between romantic inwardness and conceptual rationalism.