Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise

A collection of art by German visionary artist Otto Piene, with accompanying essays.

Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise accompanies an extensive museum exhibition that features the visionary, intermedial works of Otto Piene (1928-2014). This volume presents new scholarship on the development of his imaginative approaches to interlacing art, science, and nature, and uncovering strategies for coping in an increasingly uncertain world. In the spirit of Piene’s transatlantic career, this richly illustrated catalog features essays by emerging and established art historians and curators from the United States and Europe. Shedding light on the life-affirming vision Piene developed in the wake of World War II, these texts consider the ambition of his work in a range of media and contexts, including television, kinetic sculpture, drawing, painting, and performance, that incorporate the ephemeral through its atmospheric effects and shared social experiences.

Mary Hale is associate teaching professor at Northeastern University and founder of ROYHALE Studio. Lauren Hanson is assistant curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Barbara Könches is managing director of the ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf. Sandra Beate Reimann is curator at Museum Tinguely in Basel. Tina Rivers Ryan is curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.