List of environments, installations and sculptures by Wolf Vostell

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The German artist Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) created environments , installations and sculptures from 1958 to 1998 . The works are in museums and private collections around the world. There are sculptures by Wolf Vostell on public streets and squares as Stationary traffic from the year 1969 in Cologne , Concrete Traffic from the year 1970 in Chicago , two concrete Cadillacs in the form of naked Maja from the year 1987 in Berlin , La Tortuga from in 1988 in Marl and Nike in 1998 in Palma .

background

Often the environments and installations are connected to happenings or Fluxus concerts. So You from 1964 a happening and an installation of the same title. Umgraben and TEK Thermo-Electronic Chewing Gum are, like some others, interactive installations in which the viewer is asked to take an active part in the installation. In Das Haus des Tauben , from 1977, the viewer enters a dark room by walking through water in rubber boots and looking at large-format pictures with the help of a flashlight. Wolf Vostell has been integrating televisions into his plants since 1958 .

List of environments, installations and sculptures (selection)

  • 1958: The black room (3-part, installed in a dark room painted black). 1. German view , wood, barbed wire, tin toys , magazine, bones, TV set. 2. Treblinka , motorcycle part, wood, film strips, transistor radio , earphones. 3. Auschwitz searchlights 568 , wood, metal, tar, cables, searchlights. Berlinische Galerie .
  • 1958/1959 : City of igniter , fence picket with remains of posters, broom. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna .
  • 1961/1969: Electronic paper block , paper block made from compressed paper waste (newspapers, cardboard), 12 loudspeakers, 2 sine tone generators, amplifier, some of which are wrapped with cable and wire. Wolfgang Hahn Collection, Cologne .
  • 1963: 6 TV-Dé-coll / age , 6 archive cabinets, 6 TV sets, telephone set (reconstruction 1995). Reina Sofía Museum .
  • 1963: Chicken Incubator , 6 incubators, 6 eggs, 6 grilled chickens, canvas. Chicken Incubator Instructions : The audience can eat the grilled chicken from the picture. On the day of the exhibition, the chicks should hatch in the incubators.
  • 1963: 130 km / h (from the happening Nine No-Dé-coll / agen), Mercedes Benz (built in 1948), railway tracks, gravel (reconstruction 1996).
  • 1964: You , 3 hospital beds, 3 TV sets (reconstruction 1995).
  • 1964: Jaguar , 3 automobiles pressed together .
  • 1966: Ideas file , card index box , index cards, TV set. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1967: Miss Vietnam , mannequin revised. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna.
  • 1967: Happening Fall Out of Miss Vietnam , torso of mannequin, brush, cameras, toy tanks, potatoes.
  • 1967: Homage to Henry Ford and Jaqueline Kennedy , blurring on canvas photo, fluorescent tube ( ultraviolet radiation ), rubber hoses, 2 TV sets, video camera, automobile door ( Ford ), microphone, amplifier, spaghetti, spade. Museum Ludwig .
  • 1968: Electronic dé-coll / age happening room / EdHR (homage to Albrecht Dürer ), room installation , 6 TV sets, broken glass, bomb dummy covered with candy, shoes, typewriter with lipstick, animal preparations ( raven ), toy knight's castle, spade, Sickles , skis, wheels, sheets, spoons, sugar and other objects that are operated with electric motors . New National Gallery .
  • 1968: magnetostriction in milk , railroad tracks, milk, coat with loudspeakers and induction loops, carrying instrument. Instructions for magnetostriction : Induction loops are attached to the 30 meter long railway tracks . With around 30,000 watts, music or speech are transmitted to the railroad tracks without cables. If you walk over the rails with the loudspeaker jacket with induction loops, the loudspeakers start to sound.
  • 1968: Door handles , iron bars with mounted door handles on iron girders. Instructions for doorknobs : In the case of doorknobs , participation occurs by stepping into a milk basin on roller skates , cleaning the door handles with a microphone and a cloth in your hand and hearing the cleaning noises in an electrically oversized manner.
  • 1968/1970 : high voltage , high voltage mast, smoke-sensitive microphones, 1000 cigarettes. Instructions for high voltage : Part of a high voltage pylon is built so that the cables disappear into the museum walls. There are smoke-sensitive microphones on the cables. The floor beneath the cables is covered with thousands of cigarette butts. The visitor can smoke and thereby triggers a beat of sine tones .
  • 1968/1969 : Induction , animal preparation (calf), sand, 2 induction sticks (carrying instrument / electro-acoustic board with loudspeaker, electrical parts and other objects), loudspeaker, black cloth with silver (gold) embroidered formula by James Clerk Maxwell ( Maxwell equations ). Instructions for Induction ( Electromagnetic Induction ): Take one of the induction wands and wander around the rooms to find the magnetic fields . Museo Vostell Malpartida.
  • 1968/1970 : Digging , Rheinische Erde von Aachen, 24 chrome-plated spades, acoustic electrical wires, loudspeakers, amplifier. Instructions for digging up : An area of ​​earth measuring 5 meters × 7 meters × 30 cm can be turned over by 24 performers at the same time. When digging up, the spades hit shielded cables lying in the ground. These impact noises are amplified electroacoustically. Wolfgang Feelisch Collection, Remscheid .
  • 1969: telemetry. The acoustic street , cobblestones , electronics, speakers, rubble. Instructions for telemetry : an acoustic street, an audience action room. 3 x 40 loudspeakers are built into the pavement of the street. When a stone is thrown from the street against the rubble leaning against the wall, loud, painful sine tones sound from the street for 50 seconds .
  • 1969: Radar Alarm F. , bicycle, TV, pocket alarms / sirens, shopping network. Instructions for radar alarm F .: A TV set with a video program or a TV program is set on the luggage rack of the bike. On bicycle handlebar a string bag is related to 40 sirens. The alarm sirens are linked to a timer that lets all 40 alarm sirens wail for 10 seconds once an hour. Which interferes with the TV program on the TV set for the same time.
  • 1969: Stationary traffic , action sculpture (event sculpture, event sculpture, car concrete sculpture), Opel Kapitän P 2.6 (built in 1960), concrete casting ( reinforced concrete B 300, reinforced with R + N mesh ). Cologne .
  • 1970: Concrete Traffic , Cadillac, Betonguß (car concrete sculpture), Chicago .
  • 1970: Madison Avenue, Literature 4 , typewriter, lipsticks. Cologne City Museum .
  • 1970: Concrete chair (Berlin chair), cast concrete. Berlinische Galerie .
  • 1970: Locusts , blurring , 20 monitors, 1 video camera, tar, bones, hair, tennis rackets, shoes. Instructions for locusts : When you step in front of the environment, you are immediately part of it via a video camera. You determine the length of your portrait - your self-expression - your electronic existence. The noise of the TV sets is the swarm of locusts. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna .
  • 1970: TEK thermo-electronic chewing gum , room installation , 5 microphone capsules with transmitters, 5 warm light sources, chewing gum, 2 loudspeakers, 1 amplifier 25 watts, 1 transistor radio , 30 metal posts with barbed wire, 5 suitcases with radios and heat-sensitive microphones , 13,000 spoons and forks. Instructions for Thermo-Electronic Chewing Gum : Chewing gum. Attach the transmitter capsule to the jaw. Take a suitcase and carry it around the room and chew gum. Hear intensely transmitted chewing noises. Hear chewing noises in the suitcase. Dortmunder U .
  • 1970: TV shoes , used shoes, TV sets, automobile batteries, current daily newspapers. Instructions for TV shoes : There is a TV set with a TV program in the Schuhberg. In front of the Schuhberg, next to 2 12-volt automobile batteries, is the largest daily newspaper in the place where the plant is exhibited. The new daily newspaper is put on the pile every day. Until the end of the exhibition. Gino Di Maggio Collection, Fondazione Mudima, Milan .
  • 1972: Olympic counter / concrete counter , sales counter , concrete casting. Bochum Museum .
  • 1972: TOT Technological Oak Tree , tree (oak), electronic measuring devices, card index box . Instructions for TOT : Various physical quantities (natural events ( wind strengths , temperatures )) are measured on a tree , transmitted and displayed by measuring instruments. The viewer finds 310 measuring processes, 310 corresponding ideas, written on index cards , of which he can list one after the other. Human behavior triggered by the physical behavior of nature. For example: 5 measured values ​​= 5 ideas.
  • 1972: Desastres (from the film and happening Desastres ), railway wagon, concrete, various objects.
  • 1973: Mania , room installation , tree, hair, animal brains. Instructions for Mania : Becoming aware through your own action, not through watching. Buy a city map of Hanover, take 1 animal brain from the Vostell environment Mania in the Kunstverein, leave a receipt for it in the secretariat. Transfer the curve of conscientious objection from a board to the city map of Hanover (see model). Use your car and your brain to trace the line as precisely as possible. Whenever you are looking for the way, immediately write down your thoughts without making a selection. Bring your brain and your notes to the Vostell room in the Kunstverein, for a receipt. The report of your trip becomes part of the exhibition.
  • 1973: Auto-Fever , Cadillac Sedan, 8 electric motors , 2 sickles, 10 sledgehammers, 6 revenges, 2 lead figures, hair, approx. 1000 plates. Auto Fever Guide : After you return home from the environment, take your temperature. Write this down on a piece of paper with the date and time. Put these records on a plate on the balcony or window until your next fever . Then destroy the plate. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1973: Energy , action plastic , Cadillac, bread, daily newspapers, pins , rifles. Instructions for energy : Wrap about 1000 loaves of bread with string in the current newspaper of the place where the work is exhibited and use it to build a wall next to the Cadillac. On the day of the opening, a full-page advertisement for the exhibition with a quote from Wolf Vostell: "It is the things you do not know that change your life" appears in the daily newspaper in which the bread is wrapped. Put pins on the sandwiches and newspapers. At home, pierce the newspaper articles that you dislike with pins. Wrap scraps of bread in pieces of newspaper with glue or scotch. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1974: With (H) ropa , Buick , teleprinter , 3 TV sets, video camera, animal specimen (calf), bones, knife, concrete, machine gun, cartridge belt, slide projector , meat hook, boots, metal gloves and other objects. Glass box sculpture museum .
  • 1974: Strawberries (from the strawberries happening ), Berlin double-decker bus, lead foil, strawberry plants, 1 video camera, 1 video monitor.
  • 1974: The bacteria decide for themselves , zinc bathtub, TV set, rope, sickle, screen.
  • 1974: TV-Beton-Paris , TV set, concrete casting. Center for Art and Media Technology .
  • 1975: Think table I, table, people's receiver , briquettes , hair.
  • 1975: Think table II, table, radio, briquettes, knife.
  • 1975: Endogenous Depression (Genoa version), room installation , tables, TV sets, radios, briquettes, fish.
  • 1975: Fandango , 40 automobile doors, 40 electric motors , 40 sledge hammers. Gino Di Maggio Collection, Fondazione Mudima, Milan .
  • 1975: Berliner armchair , club armchair clad with lead foil, rifle and other objects.
  • 1975–1978: Endogenous depression , school desks, tables, TV sets, radios, concrete and other objects. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1976: VOAEX ( Viaje de (H) ormigón por la alta Extremadura / concrete journey through the Upper Extremadura ), action plastic (event plastic , event sculpture, car concrete sculpture), Opel Admiral B (built in 1970), concrete casting. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1976: Fluxus Symphony for 40 vacuum cleaners , 40 vacuum cleaners.
  • 1976: The New York chair , leather armchair, knife, TV set. Pankrath Collection, Berlin.
  • 1977: brain as video camera , TV set, cable, glass case, medical visual model (reconstruction 1994).
  • 1977: The airplane is the egg in the hand of heaven ( Das Ei ), Bundeswehr starfighter F 104G ( Lockheed F-104 ), ants in transparent plastic tubes that are connected to Das Haus des Tauben .
  • 1977: The pigeon's house , 14 painted canvas photos, lead foil, 14 TV sets, oil-water basin, rubber boots, flashlights. Gino Di Maggio Collection, Fondazione Mudima, Milan .
  • 1978: The dead man who is thirsty , lead box, plate, concrete casting. A lead case was open to the public in Malpartida de Cáceres for 3 days . Then it was hermetically sealed and concreted into the sculpture. The plates face the sun. In 5000 years, the sculpture is to be opened and science is to carry out an analysis of the bacteria and other elements in the lead box and display the results. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1978: radio fish , radios, fish, fishing boat, ice cream.
  • 1979: TV obelisk , TV sets, concrete, video camera. Dalí Museum .
  • 1979/1986: Homage to Miro and Garcia Lorca (from the Fluxus concert Romancero Gitano ), lime, earth, knife, animal blood, stick, chair, glass.
  • 1980: Johanna the crazy (from the Fluxus concert Juana La Loca ), feathers, 1 chicken, 2 plates, 7 cassette recorders.
  • 1980: Endogen Depression (Los Angeles version), room installation , tables, TV sets, concrete, turkeys (assembly also without turkeys).
  • 1981: The clouds (from Fluxus train ), 8 lead figures on wooden frames with 4 electric motors , leaded walls. Pankrath Collection, Berlin.
  • 1981: The fire (from Fluxus train ), animal preparation (6 dogs), knife, red paprika powder , paprika pods .
  • 1981: The dances / The German room (from Fluxus train ), sofa, table, chair, TV set, lamp, piano, picture, concrete casting. Dortmunder U .
  • 1981: The rivers (from Fluxus train ), cassette recorder, push button switch, blue light bulbs .
  • 1981: The stones (from the Fluxus train ), telephones, bones, 2 tables, bags of coal.
  • 1981: The winch (from Fluxus train ), Mercedes Benz 600 (built in 1966), 21 TV sets, 1 video camera, electric fireplace, transparent plastic hose, torso of a mannequin , coal.
  • 1982: The Garden of Earthly Delights (from the Fluxus opera The Garden of Earthly Delights ), tables, white tablecloths, salad, olive oil, vinegar, salt, candles.
  • 1982: TV-Montparnasse , 5 video recorders, 5 video monitors, 1 drawing.
  • 1983: Energy , action plastic (Brazil version), Cadillac, rifles, bread, daily newspapers, pins.
  • 1985: Endogenous Depression , TV sets, turkeys, tractor tires, concrete , iron parts, version of Endogenous Depression . Stockholm .
  • 1986: Requiem for the forgotten , farmer's carts, piano, barbed wire, TV sets, concrete, gold jewelry. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1986: Milonga , Mercedes Benz 600 engine (built in 1966), hoses and rotary pump, 1 sports shoe, red liquid, small TV set.
  • 1986: The music tree , iron plates, iron pipes, iron bars.
  • 1986: Endogenous Depression , TV sets, concrete casting, version of Endogenous Depression . Nice .
  • 1986: Amapola , TV sets, concrete casting, version of the endogenous depression . Zamora .
  • 1986: The Naked and the Dead , piano, concrete.
  • 1987: Two concrete Cadillacs in the form of naked Maja , 2 Cadillac Fleetwood , concrete cast (car concrete sculpture), Berlin ( Rathenauplatz ).
  • 1987: Two concrete Cadillacs in the form of naked Maja (bronze).
  • 1987: Auto barricades, automobiles, concrete casting. Place de la Resistance, Belfort .
  • 1988: La Tortuga , locomotive, DR 52 2751 (La Tortuga) . Marl .
  • 1988: Fluxus Buick piano , Buick , grand piano, hammers, chains. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1988: Leonardo da Vinci's breakfast in Berlin / sand in the gear , Cadillac Fleetwood, stones, sand, spades. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1988: Icarus , Chevrolet Camaro Turbo 350 ( Coupé , built in 1972), round iron bars, springs.
  • 1988: VW for Zen , 2 automobiles (Volkswagen Beetle), shotcrete. For the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
  • 1989: Diskobol (bronze), art'otel, Joachimstaler Strasse 28–29, Berlin.
  • 1990: Concrete bulls , concrete , truck engines. Museo Vostell Malpartida
  • 1990: Kafkas Boot / Fine de Golfo , rubber dinghy, gas masks, 1 video camera, 1 video monitor, feet and ears made of plaster, hard foam, Geiger counter .
  • 1990: Concrete grand piano , concert grand piano, sheet music, concrete casting. Gino Di Maggio Collection, Fondazione Mudima, Milan.
  • 1991: Ajo TV , garlic , TV set, glass case on casters.
  • 1991: Car TV wedding , Mercedes Benz, W 108, 280 SE, built in 1968 (crushed by the steamroller), TV sets, broken glasses.
  • 1991: Don Quijote , offset printing machine (Heidelberg Cylinder, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen ), motorcycle ( Puch ), oil basin.
  • 1992: Castor , iron form, railroad tracks, 2 video cameras, 2 video monitors, drum, shooting range for target shooting .
  • 1992/1993 : Cycle: Icaro and Tanit , sculptures, various objects. Museo Vostell Malpartida.
  • 1993: Wall made of spoons , armored piece of the Berlin Wall , 12 silver spoons, 85 × 102 × 35 cm. Jean Mairet Collection, Paris .
  • 1993: Sarajevo TV , TV set, chello, model railway wagon, feet and legs of a mannequin. Fluxus Plus Museum
  • 1993: Sarajevo , radio, model railway wagon, 2 plaster feet.
  • 1994: Sarajevo. 3 Fluxus pianos , 3 pianos, various objects.
  • 1994: Berliner (bronze), torso, Coca-Cola bottle, TV set.
  • 1994: Fluxus-Piano-Lituania. Homage to Maciunas , piano, suitcase, shopping cart, mason jar with duster, field phone . Institute for Foreign Relations.
  • 1995: Concrete bull , concrete, truck engine. Serra Collection, Palma .
  • 1995: 9cm² Fluxus TV (bronze), TV set.
  • 1996: Energie II , Cadillac Fleetwood, radios, barbed wire, toy knight's castle.
  • 1996: Homage to Levin , 2 doors of automobiles, 1 antler , 1 truck axle, 1 railroad axle, various objects. Palacio de Topete, Malpartida de Cáceres
  • 1996–1997: Why did the trial between Pilate and Jesus only last two minutes? 1 MiG Mikojan-Gurewitsch , 2 automobiles, PC monitors, concert grand piano. Museo Vostell Malpartida .
  • 1997: Engels Fall , 1 MiG-15 , 19 TV sets.
  • 1998: Nike (bronze). Berlin (Gloria-Passage), Palma (Paseo Mallorca), Malpartida de Cáceres (Carretera Nacional N-521).
  • 1998: Cadillac swing , Cadillac Fleetwood, TV sets, iron frame. Bernd Reiter Collection, Hürth .

See also

literature

  • Wolf Vostell. The sculptural work 1953–87 . Mult (H) ipla, Milan 1987 (without ISBN).
  • Wolf Vostell. Retrospective 92 . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-925520-44-9 .
  • Wolf Vostell. Life = art = life . Art gallery Gera, EA Seemann , Gera 1993, ISBN 3-363-00605-5 .
  • Wolf Vostell. Automobiles . Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8030-3093-5 .
  • Wolf Vostell. My art is the eternal resistance against death . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811834-0-5 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ TEK Thermo-Electronic Chewing Gum , 1970 ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.nrw-museum.de
  2. ^ The Winds , 1981
  3. ↑ Auto-TV-Hocheit , 1991 ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 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 / www02.zkm.de
  4. ↑ Wolf Vostell. Electronically . New gallery in the Alten Kurhaus, Aachen 1970.
  5. ↑ Vostell. 4 electronic environments + 1 happening. Pro Musica Nova, Kunsthalle Bremen, total production, HM Hauschild GmbH, Bremen 1974
  6. ↑ Wolf Vostell. The sculptural work 1953–87 . Mult (H) ipla, Milan 1987.
  7. ↑ Wolf Vostell. Life = art = life . Art gallery Gera, EA Seemann , Gera 1993, ISBN 3-363-00605-5 .
  8. ↑ Wolf Vostell. Automobiles . Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8030-3093-5 .
  9. ↑ Wolf Vostell. My art is the eternal resistance against death . Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811834-0-5 .