World and System: Contemporary Art Between Analysis, the Search for Meaning and Dilemma

World and System takes A.R. Penck's System Pictures series (inspired by the idea of images as a global language) as a springboard to examine how contemporary artists such as Mark Dion, Charles and Ray Eames, Öyvind Fahlström, Mark Lombardi, Frank Nitsche, Jorinde Voigt and others devise complex systems of their own.