Article, 2020, Frédéric Migayrou
"The Gelsenkirchen opera house", text by Frédéric Migayrou, extract from an exhibition catalogue
At the time of his exhibition at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf in May 1957, Klein made contact with the members of the ZERO group, including Norbert Kricke. Kricke invited him to take part in a competition for an artistic intervention at the opera-theatre in Gelsenkirchen.Werner Ruhnau, the architect for the project, had met Klein in Paris a month earlier at the ‘Norbert Kricke’ exhibition at the Iris Clert gallery, and a year after he had been commissioned by the theatre and opened...
