Terry Fox

Edited by Barbara von Flüe, with texts by Barbara von Flüe/Beate Eickhoff, Terry Fox, Marita Loosen-Fox and Sebastian Taugerbeck, designed by Tino Grass, 84 pages (German/English), Cologne 2025, 210 x 275 mm, ISBN 978-3-9825800-5-0, € 24.- (Kolumba. Notebooks and Books, Vol. 65)

During a scholarship in West Berlin in 1981/82, Terry Fox listened to the radio broadcaster of the U.S. military. Their programmes contained catch phrases like “arms for peace”, “balance of terror” or “soft target”. Terry Fox used these euphemisms as the starting point for a 27-part group of works titled Catch Phrases, which was developed between 1981 and 1984 in Berlin, Naples and Minneapolis. With five works, Kolumba possesses the most extensive group of restored works from the series, which has lost nothing in their contemporariness today. The publication presents the work cycle in its historical and artistic context, examines the meaning and functioning of military euphemisms and offers insight into this exceptional artist’s way of thinking and working.