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Destruction and Deconstruction

The art method used in the project is called décollage. In a traditional collage elements are added and in a décollage material is removed like archaeologist lay free information. Pieter showed the patients how to remove material with sews, cutters, chainsaw, milling machines, etc...

Art 2.0

The well-known designer and artist Pieter Brenner surprised with a new kind of art participation. The starting material consists of up to 300 layers of advertising posters, that can be altered by ways of carving, cutting, chipping and engraving. 

Contemporary art

There is always the possibility for new forms and patterns. It is like a symbol of post modernism: Behind every layer might be lying a better one. But, the more layers are removed, the less material is left from the artwork.

Materiality and Content

With the décollage, Brenner is blurring the traditional boundaries between materiality and content. "The medium is finally the medium, and behind a medium is just a medium." Brenner thinks the approach of Marshall McLuhan to its logical conclusion.

More and Less

Brenner meets the "more" with “less” by reduction, removal and separation. By separating the artwork from its context, the original message of consumption is destroyed.

Advertising as an archive

Advertising serves as a pacemaker for consumers. The posters are laminated and materialize these artifacts in a substantial archive. 

Archeological

In this archive Brenner has worked with archaeological and artistic methods. Advertising has become the most important contemporary form of art, and society has to conserve it because of its fast pace.    

Décollage
Décollage was a term invented by Wolf Vostell after he saw (a version of) it used in a newspaper article to describe the crash of an airplane at takeoff.(Source)

„Art is Life, Life is Art.“ 
1961Wolf Vostell (Décollage Artist)

Décollage

The French word "décollage" translates into English literally as "take-off" or "to become unglued" or "to become unstuck". It is now commonly used in the French language in regard to aviation (as when an airplane lifts off the ground). (Source)

„I declare peace as the greatest work of art.“ 
1979 Wolf Vostell (Décollage Artist)

„Every human being is a work of art.“ 
1985 Wolf Vostell (Décollage Artist)

Pieter Brenner: 
untitled hidden 2012 
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