Wolf Vostell

October 14th 1932

Wolf Vostell was a german painter, sculptor, noise music maker, and 'happening' artist of the second half of the 20th century. He was a pioneer of video art, environmental sculptors, happenings and the fluxs movement. Techniques such as blurring and the décollage are characteristics of his work, as well as his strange taste for embedding objects in concrete.

He began his artistic career as an apprentice lithographer in 1953 and by 1954 he had created his first décollage. His philosophy was built around the idea that destruction is all around us, using the term décollage as a description of the act of tearing down posters and for the use of mobile fragments of reality.

Images

http://janosgatgallery.com/JANOS_GAT_GALLERY/Wolf_Vostell_slideshow.html

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