Artforum, December 1st, 2005
AARAU, SWITZERLAND
MARKUS RAETZ
AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS
In 1969, Markus Raetz, then twenty-eight years old, participated in the epochal exhibition "When Attitudes Become Form." The entry of language into art as a medium in its own right brought early international recognition to the work of this crafty draftsman and word acrobat, and though Raetz recently installed a text object in a public space in Geneva, his earlier word-images have generally given way to optical experiments, as this retrospective exhibition, "Nothing is lighter than light," shows. An example of this tendency is Kopflose MuMe...
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