Fly Me to the Moon

This book documents, contextualizes and supplements an exhibition that sees itself as a journey through the history of artistic engagement with the moon since Galileo Galilei and the invention of the telescope. We look back on several centuries of the "fascination of the moon", with the focus on the 20th and 21st centuries, but also detours into the 19th century. The media copper engraving and painting are taken into account as well as photography, video art and multimedia installations.
The exhibition course and the present book are divided into eight chapters, within which a content-related as well as a formal-associative structure is followed: I) astronomy and design; II) moonlight and shadow; III) moon diseases and borderline experiences; IV) Modern Cosmonautics: Cold War and Space Race; V) Heroes and anti-heroes: media staging of space; VI) Colonization of the moon: projection surface of new utopias; VII) Micro and Zero Gravity; and finally VIII) The Blue Planet.
Published by the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich With a foreword by Christoph Becker and Thorsten Sadowsky and texts by James Attlee, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Walter Famler, Liam Gillick, Cathérine Hug, Ulrich Köhler and Tristan Weddigen
Poems and excerpts from the 19th century to the present
Softcover with PVC cover, 376 pages, 400 color illustrations
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, 2019
German-English edition
ISBN 978-3-86442-278-2

The book at hand documents, contextualizes and complements an exhibition that sees itself as a journey through the history of artistic exploration of the Moon since Galileo Galilei and the invention of the telescope. Looking back on several centuries of human fascination with the moon, with an emphasis on the twentieth century and the present, it includes copperplate prints and paintings as well as photographs, video art, and multimedia installations.
The exhibition course as well as the book at hand are divided into eight sections that follow a content-related as well as a formal-associative structure: I) Astronomy and gestalt; ii) moonlight and shadow; III) Moon sickness and extreme experiences; IV) Modern cosmonautics: cold war and space race; V) Heroes and anti-heroes: mediatization of space; VI) Colonization of the Moon: projection screen for new utopias; VII) micro and zero gravity; and finally VIII) The Blue Planet.

Zurich Art Society / Kunsthaus Zurich (Ed.) With a foreword by Christoph Becker and Thorsten Sadowsky and texts by James Attlee, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Walter Famler, Liam Gillick, Cathérine Hug, Ulrich Koehler and Tristan Weddigen
Poems and excerpts from the 19th century to the present
Softcover with PVC cover, 376 pages, 400 colored pictures
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, 2019
German-English edition
ISBN 978-3-86442-278-2