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Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

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Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 Leverkusen – 3 April 1998 Berlin) was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete.


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Sun in Your Head 1963 (5.7)

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."


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Fluxfilm Anthology 1962-1970 2010

Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.


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Vietnam N/A

Vostell manipulated a television to distort news footage of the Vietnam War and recorded the intervention using Super 8 film. In this key example of his practice of “TV-dé-coll/age,” the artist addresses the hyper-saturated media landscape and our increasing desensitization to distant atrocities.


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