The book addresses Jean-Christophe Ammann’s life’s work as a curator, art expert and museum director. Ammann talks about his roots, his time as a student and his early days at Kunsthalle Bern under Harald Szeemann, talks about his many year’s experience as Director of Kunstmuseums Luzern, Kunsthalle Basel and MMK Frankfurt, philosophizes about cosmology, the present and dialectics, about intimacy, sexuality and pornography, about photography and Photoshop, discusses works and concepts, among others by Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Franz Gertsch, Jeff Wall and Fischli / Weiss and, finally, analyzes Lars von Trier’s film “The Antichrist”.
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