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A wooden sculpture of a crucified frog, entitled Zuerst die Fuesse (Feet First) and made by late German artist Martin Kippenberger in 1990, is shown in an undated photo released in Bolzano, on Aug. 28, 2008 ... Martin Kippenbergers sculpture X which shows a green frog on a cross, gripping a beer on one side and an egg on the other X is on show at the modern art museum in the northern city of Bolzano. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Museum defies pope over crucified frog Aug 30, 2008
The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano voted to keep the work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, the museum said in a statement. Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture. (MSNBC -- International)
Italy museum defies the Pope Aug 29, 2008
The wooden sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicts a frog about 4 feet high nailed to brown cross and holding a beer mug in one outstretched hand and an egg in another. Called 'Zuerst die Fuesse,' (Feet First), it wears a green loin cloth and is nailed through the hands and the feet in the manner of Jesus Christ. (India Times, India)
George Lucas, David Duchovny, Valentino Aug 29, 2008
The board of the Museion Museum in the northern city of Bolzano decided by a majority vote that the wooden sculpture, by the German artist Martin Kippenberger , would stay in place for the remainder of the exhibition in which it is included. Alois Lageder , the museum's president, said the decision to continue to display the statue was made to "safeguard the autonomy of art institutions.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Top of the drops May 28, 2008
The idea for this show, and its title, come from a book of photographs by the late Martin Kippenberger, who made fake subway station entrances and a fake forest. Many artists have played with architecture, in all sorts of semi-realistic, bizarre and macabre ways. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
In Venice, sober art amid the spectacle Jun 17, 2007
The exhibition comes to a perplexing climax on the top floor of the Italian Pavilion where, after ascending a short flight of stairs, you pass through a gold-beaded curtain -- a work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres -- and enter a gallery occupied by what seems a motley assembly of works by various artists, including the German bad boy Martin Kippenberger and the Minimalist string sculptor Fred Sandback. What connects the artists is the fact that they are all more or less recently deceased. (Boston Globe)
Speaking volumes about their work Mar 19, 2007
Sumptuously bound in dark brown leather, standing almost 2 feet tall, and weighing in at about 20 pounds, "This Life is No Excuse for the Next," by the German artist and bad-boy prankster Martin Kippenberger , is an awesome tome. Open it up, however, and the old-world gravitas evaporates. (Boston Globe)
