Cruizin 4
Cruizin 4 (Syndicate for the Art Industry) was a group founded in Hamburg in 1965 by the artists Gunter Gerlach , Dieter Glasmacher , Francesco Mariotti , Werner Nöfer , Dirk Zimmer (Dizi) and Hermann Prigann , which emerged through exhibitions and happenings . The CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg emerged from the group in 1968 .
She became known through the spectacular opening of the exhibition "Cruizin 4" in the Galerie Mensch at the Altona fish market in Hamburg-Altona as well as through a performance in Cosinus, a legendary pub in the university quarter. The happening "The 1st World Championship in Permanent Painting" took place here under medical and especially psychiatric care from doctors from Eppendorf University Hospital. The performance, which was planned for about 80 hours, was canceled after 36 hours on medical advice because of collapseof a participant canceled. Above all, the phases of exhaustion and sleep after the incident were scientifically investigated in the UKE's sleep laboratory. The artist group made other exhibitions and happenings in Switzerland and Germany.
literature
- Francesco Mariotti: Cruizin 4 (1967).
- The change of the republic or a theory of architecture, 1998, monograph by Jörgen Bracker on Werner Nöfer, pp. 27–28, ISBN 3-00-002497-2 .
- Jörn Voss: Woe, someone is sleeping! In: Abendecho Hamburg from November 9, 1967.
- Karin Kleemann: The artists are sleeping ahead. In: Welt am Sonntag of November 5, 1967.
- Wolfgang Feucht: Painting battle for world record under medical supervision. In: Bremer Nachrichten of November 10, 1967.
- Anke Grundmann: world champion in permanent painting. In: Die Welt from November 6, 1967.
- Gottfried Sello: "The artists came in the colossal car ... they call themselves Syndicate for the Art Industry" In: "Hamburger Abendblatt" of March 30, 1967