1. An ever-present visuality, given free rein and free speech in this world with its increasingly media-dominated focus
2. A feeling of loop-like temporality, constantly influenced by one’s own processes of forgetting and remembering
3. In connection with the two previous factors, an understanding that cultural history is freely available (to everyone, in its entirety) for artistic purposes.
These three elements fuse in the young artist’s drawing “The Wohnseifer” 1999: Above a newly colour-coded Adidas athletic shoe, more about which later, the words written in bright letters: “History will be repeated in five seconds (non linear)”. Here a “sneaker”, along with other sporting footwear a lifestyle icon of the nineties and as such frequently integrated into both high and low art, became a model for a sense of culture which is attempting to brand itself truthfully onto the flow of time as the individual experiences it.
"self destroying history"
The book by Johannes Wohnseifer
Texts:
R. Stange
Pages:
148
Format:
24x27 cm
Illustrations:
303 col., 15 b/w
+ 220 in catalogue raisonné
Published:
2003
Price:
€ 42,00
ISBN:
3-03720-002-2
