List of multiples by Wolf Vostell

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The German artist Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) produced multiples from 1963 to 1998 .

background

For Wolf Vostell, the multiple was a strategy for documenting happenings and presenting ideas and projects. In his first multiple Do it yourself from 1963, Wolf Vostell asked the viewer to create works of art himself by adding a test tube with tetrachloride ( carbon tetrachloride ) to the multiple , which can be used to make smudges . The participation of the viewer and the public has been an outstanding element at Wolf Vostell since 1958.

List of multiples (selection)

  • 1963: Do it yourself , action multiple, test tube with cork stopper, with label: stamped text. Content: tetrachloride. Text of the stamp: Do it yourself! To participate in the creation of the dé-coll / age at the opening from Vostells show, may 22, 1963, Smolin Gallery, New York , 10 cm, diameter: 1.5 cm, 100 copies, not signed, not numbered. Smolin Gallery New York.
  • 1965: 2 dé-coll / age happenings , 13 screen prints on straw cardboard, front and back covers made of Plexiglas, held together with a screw clamp. 21.5 × 10.5 cm, 150 copies, René Block, Berlin.
  • 1966: V , brown cardboard with stencil inscription. 31, 5 × 23, 5 × 5.5 cm. Contents: Original drawing, pencil and colored pencil, decorative pens, transistor radio, 29 × 20.5 cm, 15 copies signed. Cologne Art Association.
  • 1966: dé-coll / age happenings , object box, wood, with plexiglass lid, screen-printed inscription on the left edge of the object box, 23 × 16 × 6 cm. Content: Photo print (self-portrait) glued to the floor (21 × 14 cm), 15 reproductions of the original happening scores (55 × 42 cm), aluminum foil with Bromo Seltzer parcel (21 × 14 cm), 1 piece of matze (18.5 × 14 cm), book: dé-coll / age happenings by Wolf Vostell, translated by laura p. williams, 1966 (20.3 × 13.7), 500 copies, Something Else Press Inc. New York, Frankfurt, Villefranche-sur-Mer.
  • 1966: dé-coll / age 5 happenings pieces scores , folding box, lid printed 28 × 21 × 4 cm. Contents: 23 boxes. 23 artists. 500 copies, Typos Verlag Frankfurt.
  • 1967: Fluxus Year Box 2 , wooden box, 20.5 × 20.5 × 8.7 cm. Cover printed in color. Contents: 8 mm film loops, hand-held film viewer, playing cards, card games, puzzles, toys, event cards from various artists, Edition Fluxus, George Maciunas , New York.
  • 1967: German student wallpaper, object box, wood with plexiglass lid, 73 × 52.5 × 12.3 cm. Contents: Wallpaper (10 × 0.52 meters), rotary printing, black, 200 copies, unsigned, edition 8, Galerie René Block , Berlin.
  • 1967: The theater is on the street , wooden box with sliding cover. 1 page with text: wolf vostell: the theater is on the street / a dé-coll / age demonstration, 6 original smears and dé-coll / age posters (signed by hand) shrink-wrapped in plastic (40 × 40 cm), red plastic film (39 × 39 cm), green plastic lawn lawn (39 × 40 cm), on it: 1 razor blade, 1 comb, 3 candy wrappers, 1 speed handkerchief in a paper sleeve. 15 copies, Edition Hake, Cologne.
  • 1967: Melting with a plastic car , wooden box, 21 × 35 × 11 cm. Contents: plastic toy car, prototype, VICE-Verlag, Remscheid.
  • 1967: Pea tennis steam shoe , assemblage, 60 × 60 × 15 cm made of: tennis shoe, porcelain plate , peas, kettle, hose, prototype, VICE-Verlag, Remscheid.
  • 1967: Pictures to be read. Poetry to be seen , group multiple, plexiglass box, 25 × 10 × 6 cm. Contents: Broken light bulb, 500 copies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
  • 1968: B-52 lipstick bomber , screen printing, lipsticks.
  • 1968: B-52 instead of bombs , screen printing, permanent lollipop.
  • 1968: B-52 instead of bombs , screen printing, various consumer items.
  • 1968: Phantom , screen printing, mirrored light bulbs.
  • 1968: Prague bread , 1/2 kg wheat bread with embedded bath thermometer, partly covered with gold, 24 × 13 × 9 cm, unlimited edition, VICE-Verlag, Remscheid.
  • 1968: Black bread with door handle , assembly, 17 × 17 × 8.5 cm from: 1 pack of black bread, 2 door handles, prototype VICE-Verlag, Remscheid.
  • 1969: dé-coll / age No. 7/69 , plexiglass box with broken glass and tape with noises (steps on glass) 20.2 × 20.2 × 6.5 cm. Contents: Catalog: dé-coll / age No. 7 electronic dé-coll / age happening room 1959 - 1968 (2.5 × 19 × 19.5 cm), Typos-Verlag, 1969, original Tampax tampons box, whistle, armband ("Spielführer"), 10 copies, Typos-Verlag, Frankfurt.
  • 1969: Artist mail, 7-part ensemble of objects, 32.5 × 23.5 × 21 cm, Wolf Vostell: Plexiglas writing pad, 32.5 × 23.5 × 2.8 cm, inscription: Calls Vostell-Ideen: Köln 0221 517783 Automatic telephone answering machine. Daily 9 p.m. - midnight. From October 1st, 69, HUNDRED DAYS . In the base there is a hollow with a ballpoint pen from a cartridge. Various artists, 20 copies, Art Intermedia Gallery, Cologne.
  • 1969: Edition 17 , object box, wood, with plexiglass pane 26 × 32 × 12 cm, plexiglass pane printed: documentation 1954-69, the noise-sensitive cup & Rhenish black bread, 1969, 30 copies, technology peter saage Contents: Book: Wolf Vostell Documentation, Edition 17, Edition Block, Berlin 1969, 2 packets of Rhenish black bread, the noise-sensitive cup, yellow-black enamel. Height 9 cm, diameter 9 cm, with built-in electronics (photo cell, loudspeaker, cable, plug), signed and dated, 30 copies (2nd edition of the cup: 15 copies) Galerie René Block, Berlin.
  • 1969: Radar alarm , En Bloc drawer 40 × 40 × 5.34 cm. Contents: 1 alarm system with plaster (signed) attached to the bottom of the drawer, 1 kg of rice, loose aluminum letter H , 20 copies, Galerie René Block, Berlin.
  • 1970: TV cancer , saw blade, screen print on nettle cloth.
  • 1970: TV-Krebs-BB , screen print on linen sheets.
  • 1971: concrete book , enclosed in concrete book, 34 x 25 x 4.5 cm, 100 copies signed (Zinkätzung) Edition Howeg, Hinwil / Zurich.
  • 1971: Happening Documentation Salat, November 7, 1970 - November 5, 1971 , 1971, object box, plexiglass, 63 × 42.5 × 6 cm. Contents: Inscribed and signed envelope with documentation of the same name (original photos, prints and photocopies) Salad Happening 365 days between Cologne and Aachen (stamp), original bronze of a dried-up head of lettuce wrapped in natural linen (206 × 95 cm), tied, signed, 23 copies , Edition Hossmann, Hamburg.
  • 1971: Salad box from the Salad happening November 7, 1970 - November 6, 1971, Cologne Aachen , 1971, object box, plexiglass, 63 × 42 x 25 cm. Contents: Original salad box with advertising and original remainder of the salad leaves from the happening, box numbered and signed on the front, 23 copies, Edition Hossmann, Hamburg.
  • 1971: Scale: Life is art , wood with screen printing, 100 × 15 × 3 cm, 100 copies, signed and numbered, Edition Howeg, Zurich.
  • 1972: Avoid Cologne , black wooden case with metal handle 38 × 40 × 12 cm. Contents: Road map (Cologne region), mounted on wood, chrome-vanadium-steel circular saw blade (diameter: 16 cm), 10 copies, reflection press, Stuttgart.
  • 1972: TOT Technological Oak Tree , object box, wood, with printed plexiglass cover (screen print), 79 × 59 × 75.5 cm. Contents: Black screen print on wood, linen cloth with text, pieces of tree, maple syrup, video tape with TOT documentation, 10 copies, Edition Howeg, Zurich.
  • 1972: 310 ideas TOT , card box, gray cardboard, 13.8 × 10.8 cm, cover stamped: HAB Happening Archive Berlin, D-1 Berlin, Giesebrechtstraße 12 Contents: 310 printed ideas for actions on index cards (7.5 × 12 , 5 cm), 300 copies, of which: special edition A: with 1 drawing (20 copies), special edition B: with 1 object (dog shadow set in concrete) (50 copies), Edition Howeg, Zurich.
  • 1972: Air pump museum , object box, wood with plexiglass cover, 80 × 60 × 13 cm, lettering (cardboard): For H. Rywelski. The air pump museum. My last project for Cologne (object version), 200 copies, signed and dated, Galerie Art Intermedia, Cologne.
  • 1972: Documentation of the snow happening , object box, gray painted wood, plexiglass cover, 79 × 58 × 23.5 cm. Contents: Tied up newspaper bundle Neue Zürcher Zeitung, plexiglass box with meltwater from the snow, 2 rolls of film, 16 mm, documentation of the happening in plastic bags, 10 original photos of the happening in plastic foil, centimeter measure painted and written on (snow), 10 copies, Art in progess , Zurich.
  • 1972: Documentation of the Berlin-Fieber happening , object box, wood, Plexiglas, 133 × 200 cm. Contents: canvas, tied up with 1 plate, 2 documentation photos of the happening, 1 signed drawing, salt, in a plastic bag. Prototype.
  • 1973: V 40 , wooden case painted gray, 2 snap locks, 2 metal handles, lid: original photo on linen, 82 × 62.5 × 11 cm. Contents: 21 screen prints, 50 × 64.5 cm, book: Vostell V 40 , 10 Happening Concepts 1954–73, Editione Multhipla, Milan, 1973, 1 cattle lower jaw bone with zinc etching: décollage-Bergiff from the dictionary, 5 original audio cassettes: Dé -coll / age music: Vostell, bath thermometer, in the lid: photo overpainted on linen, signed, AP, with mounted objects: transistor radio, concrete powder in plexiglass, spoon, hairpiece, cotton ball, test tube with rubber stopper, contents: tetrachloride, 25 copies, editions Multhipla, Milan.
  • 1973: Draft of a new flag for the Federal Republic of Germany , object box, wood, framed in black, with plexiglass cover, 202 × 134.5 × 13 cm, content: Flag: flag cloth (flag print s / w) black wooden cross member attached to cloth: lower jaw bone of one Rindes, with signature, 30 copies, Galerie Andrè, Berlin.
  • 1976: Derriére l arbre , zinc case, 52 × 40.5 × 16 cm, content: photo reworked with acid, with aluminum frame, signed (39.5 × 50 cm), object plate 1 made of zinc (39.5 × 51.3 cm ), signed, fastened with leather straps: Original video cassette of the happening "Derriére l arbre", publication of the happening, Galeria G., Barcelona, ​​1976. Screen print on zinc plate with a motif from Derriére l arbre (26.5 × 17 cm), signed, object plate 2 made of zinc (39.5 × 51.3 cm), fastened with leather straps: 2 test tubes on a zinc plate sealed with cork caps (17 × 11 cm), liquids: water, perfume, urine, blood (used in the happening), screen printing on a zinc plate (Reproduction of Rembrandt's engraving "Derriére l arbre") (22 × 16.5 cm) on folded linen cloth, cotton ball, knife letter, 25 copies, Galeria G., Barcelona.
  • 1978: Endogenous Depression , box, natural wood, 41.5 × 26 × 13 cm, lid: screen-printed inscription: Vostell Endogene Depression at Harlequin Art, content: insert: wooden board (34.2 × 21.5 cm), inscribed: Vostell : Endogenous Depression 1978 (AP), original briquette piece Rekord, transistor radio in the form of a Coca-Cola can, set in concrete, connection cable, 50 copies, Harlequin Art , Wiesbaden.
  • 1987: Cadillac fountain , screen print on corrugated cardboard, 90 × 70 × 70 cm, 300 copies.
  • 1990: Spoon Gate , photocopy, spoon and concrete on strong cardboard, 21 × 29.5 × 2 cm, 40 copies.
  • 1997: Berlin bread , round bread, TV set, concrete.
  • 1998: Gas mask TV , gas mask, TV set.

See also

literature

  • Wolf Vostell. The plastic 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. 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. ^ Do it yourself , 1963
  2. ↑ Rolf Wedewer . Vostell. Retrospective 92 . Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-925520-44-9 .
  3. ↑ Wolf Vostell. Automobiles . Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8030-3093-5 .
  4. ↑ Wolf Vostell. Life = Art = Life , Art Gallery Gera, EA Seemann , Gera 1993, ISBN 3-363-00605-5 .