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Monograph

The First Monograph on Jean Schwind

Schwind Foundation is published on the occasion of the first retrospective of Jean Schwind (1935 – 1985) at S.M.A.K., Ghent, September 13, 2014 – January 11, 2015.

Paperback, 305 x 235 mm; 64 pp.; b/w and color ill.; insert: the folded map of the Schwind Foundation (405 x 885 mm) from 1972 with projected and executed appropriations. – With an essay by Jan Ceuleers – The Spoil-Sport. Life and Work of Jean Schwind – in English, French and Dutch.

In the spirit of Schwind who owes his fame to appropriations of Christo, Arman, Fontana and other well-known artists, the present publication has been conceived as an homage to a famous catalogue of Marcel Broodthaers from 1974.

Enjoy an extract of the monograph :

Or buy it (ISBN 9789082264104) at :

- Copyright Bookshop, Ghent and Antwerp : http://www.copyrightbookshop.be/nl/books/details/10886/0

- Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne : http://www.buechermarkt.net/koenig2/index.php?mode=details&showcase=1&art=1517963

- Librairie Tropismes : Galerie des Princes 11, 1000 Brussels

- Demain, Hendrik Conscienceplein 16/18, 2000 Antwerp

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http://schwindfoundation.org/ is based upon the Morphologies framework, an ongoing digital publishing project / work-in-progress (2005-) by Jan Mast

This particular itteration came to life in 2014 and provides a digital archival tool.

All content © Jean Schwind Estate and the authors under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Concept, code & design © Jan Mast under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

With the support of LICHTMACHINE agency & artgrid

( gui site 1.6f + gui cms 2.8e + framework 5.0k + b 16052014 + svn 2115 )

The Schwind Foundation is given new life in 2014 on the occasion of the Jean Schwind retrospective in the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent.

Jean Schwind (1935-1985), the first and only Belgian appropriation artist of note, in 1972 expanded his Collection Schwind to the status of a Foundation. In the Schwind Foundation he brought together his already realized as well as prospective appropriations in a way that was closely allied to conceptual art, and including a grand Plan. When, in 1976, Schwind took leave of art with a fictional death announcement, it also brought an end to the activities of the Foundation.

The new Schwind Foundation takes it upon itself the task of making the oeuvre of Jean Schwind accessible to the widest possible public. Not so simple a mission, when one considers that the artist had destroyed many of his works once they had served their initial purpose as disruptive interventions in the world of art. Nonetheless, the intention is to eventually assemble and make available a catalogue raisonné of this artist's works.

The Schwind Foundation is happy to lend its cooperation to exhibitions and publications that draw attention to the very particular role played by Jean Schwind in the art world of the 1970s.