Jörg Schlick. Monographie und Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné. 1973-2005.: Ausst. Kat. Retrospektive Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz 2015 [hardcover]

This extensive publication is dedicated to the exuberant oeuvre of one of the most productive artists of Austrian provenance and international influence: the author, conceptual artist, musician, painter, short-film maker, video and performance artist, ballet choreographer, and stage designer Jörg Schlick (Graz, 1951–2005). This broad publication conceived as a retrospective brings together works from all phases of his diverse creative career and questions the myth and oeuvre of this uncompromising artist. The publication takes up a number of works that have for a long time been inaccessible to the public and includes the artist’s first catalogue raisonné.

Thanks to his winning nature and his strong tendency to think in terms of networks, Schlick was for a long time Our Man in Graz for many artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Cosima von Bonin, or Michael Krebber, among others. He knew how to unite, employ, and play off moving on the margins, imparting, and intervening: His intelligent and energetic play integrated all forms of artistic expression and their inherent potential for appropriation. Schlick always employed these clever ways of overcoming the original with a decisively creative feel for controversy and the available (multi)media of the time.