Vostell
Description:... The work of Wolf Vostell bears witness to a life of social and political commitment that can only be compared to that of his friend and traveling companion Joseph Beuys. In 1958, Vostell was the first, along with Nam June Paik, to use television sets in artistic installations, and in 1963, he presented the first video installation ever exhibited in the U.S.A founding figure of Fluxus activity in Europe, he termed his work de-coll/age, a word he used to represent his actions and happenings that assembled the mobile fragments of reality to investigate the wars and tragedies of contemporary history: the Shoah, the Berlin Wall, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and Sarajevo. This retrospective catalogue presents documentation of fifty works covering the entire period of Vostell's artistic production, from the late 1950s to the mid-1990s.
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