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Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Horbelt have been working together since 1992. The boxy houses built of bottle crates and the signet Winter/Horbelt has become their trademark. Box houses, which combine aesthetic and useful functions, served as information pavilions during the exhibition "Skulptur. Projekte" in Munster in 1997, and at the Venice Biennale in 1999 as resting and reading rooms. Meanwhile, box houses exist all over Europe, in the US, Vietnam and Japan as well as one project in Brazil. This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte at Munster. It examines the artists' complex oeuvre, which should not be reduced to box houses. With their cast pieces, play devices and walk-in light grid baskets, Winter/Horbelt explore the significance and possibilities of sculpture today, and its change of meaning in various contexts, sites or uses. Essays and an interview by expert authors in the field reflect the genesis of an oeuvre which is illustrated by a carefully documented selection of works.
