Author Description

A multi-generational selection of 31 artists was invited to contribute work for this 50th anniversary issue of Jahresring, the Cologne journal of art criticism. After 49 issues dealing in various aspects of art criticism, the editors decided it was time to let art itself take the limelight. Artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Artschwager, Diana Thater, On Kawara, Ellen Gallagher, Wolfgang Tillmans and Gerhard Richter contributed that deals with questions about the potential of art, the importance of aesthetics, the conditions needed for beauty today, and whether or not beauty and sensuality are still relevant.