题 目：Martin Kippenberger: Metro-Net / 马丁·基彭伯格：地铁网络

作 者：Martin Kippenberger

出 版：Spector Books，2021

装 帧：精装，144页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：17.5*22.5 cm

上世纪90年代初，马丁·基彭伯格构想了一个全球地下交通网络：METRO-Net。尽管这是艺术家最具魅力的项目之一，但因他于1997年猝然离世，该构想仅能以雏形实现。1993年，首个地铁入口在希腊锡罗斯岛落成；随后两个入口相继建成：1995年位于加拿大道森市，1997年坐落于莱比锡新展场。由此在想象的无垠空间中构建出穿越的路径。其使用价值取决于想象力——若缺乏对隧道管廊与地下飞驰列车的视觉化意愿，该项目便仅是"无意义的建筑图纸"；而当我们将其视为"思想旅者"的交通工具时，作品便迸发出全部能量。基彭伯格的METRO-Net旨在以浪漫主义的世界感知，对抗生活中可预测的理性化桎梏。

In the early 1990s, Martin Kippenberger developed the idea of a global underground network: METRO-Net. Although it is one of the artist’s most fascinating projects, his premature death in 1997 meant that it could only be implemented in rudimentary form. In 1993, a metro entrance was built on the Greek island of Syros, followed by two more: one in 1995 in Dawson City in Canada and the other in 1997 on the new Leipzig exhibition grounds. This created a means of travelling in the boundless space of the imagination. Its usability depends on the imagination: without the willingness to visualize tunnel tubes and moving underground trains, this project remains a ”nonsensical building plan.“ But the moment we accept the artwork as a mode of transport for ”mind travellers,“ then its full power can unfold. Kippenberger’s METRO-Net was intended to counter life’s predictable, rationally oriented parameters with a romantic sense of the world.