LIDL (art)

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LIDL was a neo-Dadaist action project by the German artists Jörg Immendorff and Chris Reinecke , consisting of several art actions between 1968 and 1970 . Reinecke's contribution has long been suppressed in the literature.

With the "LIDL" campaigns, alternative, artistic concepts were to be made accessible to an audience outside the usual art scene. Artistic and political work should no longer be viewed separately from one another. The focus was on the role of the artist and the relationship between art and political action. Immendorff, influenced by his teacher Joseph Beuys , brought in the expressive-actionist impulse "LIDL".

The forerunner of the “LIDL” activities was the “Fresh” action evening, which Reinecke and Immendorff held in their private apartment in 1966. On the wall hung a lath on which seven body fragments were hung, which visitors could put together as they wish. Today prominent artists were invited: Joseph Beuys , Franz Erhard Walther , Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman . Reinecke and Immendorff first came into contact with Fluxus . This action was her first work with the audience: the viewer was included in the action.

Actions

In 1968 Immendorff caused a sensation when he tied a black, red and gold block to his leg during the first "LIDL" campaign and walked up and down in front of the Bundestag building until the police intervened . For the first time, the title of the new project, "LIDL", a nonsense word taken from baby language, was written on this block of wood. Since Immendorff did not stop his playful protest action, he had to face an interrogation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for " denigrating the Federal Republic of Germany ".

Shortly after this campaign in the spring of 1968, Immendorff and Reinecke rented a room in Düsseldorf's old town with the assistance and financial participation of Hansjürgen Bulkowski and Wolfgang Feelisch . This space, away from the traditional art institutions and the art market, became the forum for the “LIDL” campaigns. Political events, film screenings, poetry readings and art events took place here. “LIDL” was also a term for discussion. Art should take part in the revolt of the 1968 generation. “LIDL” ran parallel to the well-known student revolts who spoke out against what they saw as a rigid policy and wanted to bring movement into the conservative post-war atmosphere.

Numerous art actions and constructs were created in the "LIDL" room, and many artists took part in "LIDL". In 1968 Immendorff designed the concept for his “LIDL” town in a minimalist manner with chalk on a blackboard: Ten or more people should live in little houses made of wood and wrapping paper, with power supply and all the trimmings - an experimental paper settlement for the “LIDL “Commune.

In addition to the “LIDL” city, the “LIDL” sports and the “LIDL” academy are among the best-known events that deal artistically with life, society and politics. The "LIDL" academy was proclaimed on December 2, 1968 in the hallway of the Düsseldorf Art Academy by Immendorff and 25 like-minded people after a dispute broke out over one of ten professors' open letters dated November 12, 1968, in which she told her colleagues Beuys had accused him of using the German student party he helped initiate to influence the academy's teaching. In fact, students had begun to unconditionally open the classrooms to the public and to organize the lessons without the professors, which induced Eduard Trier , the director of the academy, to call the police and have the academy closed for five days. The "LIDL" academy was a direct takeover of the idea of ​​the counter-institution, as it had already been realized with the Critical University in Berlin in 1967. Under the name "Lidl Academy - Base 1", Immendorff tried to found a private painting school in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, but this finally failed after four months. Immendorff later referred to this initiative as an ingratiation on bourgeois ideas and as an example of the “squalid idea of ​​Lidl”.

The "LIDL" project only existed for two years. After disagreements and differences of opinion within the group and in the private sphere of Reinecke and Immendorff, “LIDL” finally dissolved in 1970.

literature

  • Annette Hüsch (ed.) And Jörg Immendorff (ill.): Jörg Immendorff - Male Lago. [on the occasion of the exhibition Immendorff - Male Lago - Invisible Contribution, September 23, 2005 - January 22, 2006, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation]. Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-997-X .
  • Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese : Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. [appears on the occasion of the exhibition Chris Reinecke 60s - Lidl time in the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf November 13, 1999 - January 16, 2000, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe March 16. - 29.4.2001, Kunstraum Munich May, June 2001]. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-88375-393-9 .
  • Hans Peter Riegel: Immendorff. The biography. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-351-02723-0 .
  • Jörg Immendorff: Here and now. Do what has to be done. Materials for discussion; Art in political struggle; Which side are you on, cultural worker? Cologne, New York 1973, ISBN 3-88000-008-5 . (About the artist's early years and his turn to the Communist Party of Germany and its mass organizations , league against imperialism , etc.)
  • Pamela Kort (eds.) And Jörg Immendorff (ill.): Jörg Immendorff. I wanted to become an artist. [on the occasion of the Jörg Immendorff Exhibition: I Wanted to Become an Artist, January 23 to March 21, 2004, Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88375-764-0 .
  • Veit Görner (Ed.) And Jörg Immendorff (Ill.): Jörg Immendorff. Picture with patience. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, May 25, 1996 - August 11, 1996; [on the occasion of the exhibition Jörg Immendorff - Bild mit Geduld]. Wolfsburg, Ostfildern 1996, ISBN 3-89322-844-6 .

Web links

  • To grasp, think, to move Article about an exhibition in the Badischer Kunstverein about Chris Reinecke and the utopia of collective art in the sixties, Friday , March 9th 2001

Individual evidence

  1. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 7.
  2. ^ Hans Peter Riegel: Immendorff. The biography. Berlin 2010, p. 54.
  3. ^ Annette Hüsch (ed.) And Jörg Immendorff (ill.): Jörg Immendorff - Male Lago. Cologne 2005, p. 15.
  4. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 39.
  5. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 11.
  6. ^ Hans Peter Riegel: Immendorff. The biography. Berlin 2010, p. 61.
  7. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 17.
  8. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 36.
  9. süddeutsche.de - painter Jörg Immendorff dies ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  10. Michael Schmidtke: The departure of the young intelligentsia. The 68s in Germany and the USA . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37253-3 , p. 194 ( Google Books )
  11. Riegel, footnote 102
  12. Barbara John, Susanne Rennert and Stephan von Wiese: Chris Reinecke. 1960s - Lidl time. Cologne 1999, p. 27.