Johannes Wohnseifer
Self Destroying History
catalogue design
Johannes Wohnseifer’s work focuses on three elements that seem to represent our popular and postmodern reality.
Johannes Wohnseifer
Self Destroying History
catalogue design
Johannes Wohnseifer’s work focuses on three elements that seem to represent our popular and postmodern reality.
1. An ever-present visuality, given free rein and free speech in this world with an 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 are combined in an early drawing of the artist entitled “The Wohnseifer” 1999: Above a newly colour-coded Adidas athletic shoe, you can see the following words written in bright letters: “History will be repeated in five seconds (non linear)”. A “sneaker” – a lifestyle icon of the nineties and as such frequently integrated into both high and low art – becomes a model for the representation of a culture and for an individual experience attempting to brand itself truthfully into the flow of time.
Texts: R. Stange
Pages: 148
Format: 24×27 cm
Illustrations: 303 col., 15 b/w + 220 in catalogue raisonné
Published: 2003
ISBN: 3-03720-002-2
Johannes Wohnseifer
Self Destroying History
catalogue design
Johannes Wohnseifer’s work focuses on three elements that seem to represent our popular and postmodern reality.
1. An ever-present visuality, given free rein and free speech in this world with an 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 are combined in an early drawing of the artist entitled “The Wohnseifer” 1999: Above a newly colour-coded Adidas athletic shoe, you can see the following words written in bright letters: “History will be repeated in five seconds (non linear)”. A “sneaker” – a lifestyle icon of the nineties and as such frequently integrated into both high and low art – becomes a model for the representation of a culture and for an individual experience attempting to brand itself truthfully into the flow of time.
Texts: R. Stange
Pages: 148
Format: 24×27 cm
Illustrations: 303 col., 15 b/w + 220 in catalogue raisonné
Published: 2003
ISBN: 3-03720-002-2
1. An ever-present visuality, given free rein and free speech in this world with an 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 are combined in an early drawing of the artist entitled “The Wohnseifer” 1999: Above a newly colour-coded Adidas athletic shoe, you can see the following words written in bright letters: “History will be repeated in five seconds (non linear)”.
A “sneaker” – a lifestyle icon of the nineties and as such frequently integrated into both high and low art – becomes a model for the representation of a culture and for an individual experience attempting to brand itself truthfully into the flow of time.
Texts: R. Stange
Pages: 148
Format: 24×27 cm
Illustrations: 303 col., 15 b/w + 220 in catalogue raisonné
Published: 2003
ISBN: 3-03720-002-2
