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Günter Metken passed away |
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The German AICA mourns the loss of Günter Metken, member since 1971. The art critic, essayist and travel writer was 72 years old. He died on the 29th of March, 2000 in a hospital in the Libyan capital Tripolis. Metken died of injuries received in a car accident four days earlier in the North African harbor city. Günter Metken, born in Duisburg, had worked in Paris since the sixties where he reported for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other publications. His most important publications dealt with the art of the nineteenth century as well as modern and contemporary art. His book on the pre-Raphaelites (Cologne 1974) stands almost contemporaneously beside an anthology on Surrealism (»Als die Surrealisten noch recht hatten«, Stuttgart 1976). With his wife Sigrid and Werner Spies he worked on the oeuvre catalogue of Max Ernst (beginning in 1975). As exhibition organizer, Metken brought together the Poirers, Boltanksi, Gerz, Nikolaus Lang and Annette Messager in 1977 in Munich and created the term »Spurensicherer«, a term that applies to these artists until this day. The »documenta 8« in 1987 in Kassel was grateful to the critic for his popular short guide. His travel journal »Reisen als schöne Kunst betrachtet«, first published in 1983, experienced several printings. Hence, he is both a searcher of traces and securer of the same. We will treasury the memory of Günter Metken. Cologne, 4/10/2000 Walter Vitt
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