Details — Click to read
Edition by Art Edition-Fils
About the project “The Red Couch: a Gallery of Mankind”
In 1979 Horst Wackerbarth first traveled through the USA with a red sofa and the aim of producing a subjective portrait of the country. By the early 1980s lots of exhibition centers around the world were already dedicating first exhibitions to this series. For four decades now Horst Wackerbarth has been traveling the world with his red couch, which he places in different people’s habitual environment and portrays them on it: Young and old, famous and unknown. The aim of the project is a portrait piece, a gallery of mankind.
