Art by Charlotte Poseneske: The elements of reconstruction

visitors to the fourth Documenta was on the opening day, the 27. In June 1968, a leaflet was pressed into my Hand, where as a "culture-Fatzkes" were insulted. The art is described by the anonymous authors as the apparatus of the bogus distinction. Formal "revolutions" – the word is in quotation marks to distract from the social adaptation as the basic rule of the game. It shows that you can afford something, for example, "by Christo, a well-Packed Paradise".

Patrick Bahners

feuilleton correspondent in Cologne and is responsible for "Humanities".

The leaflet has been preserved in the estate of Charlotte Poseneske, and was marked with the hand-written explanation, that it "had been distributed at the opening of documenta in 1968". Burkhard Brunn, the second husband and the administrator of the estate of in 1985, shortly before her fifty-fifth birthday in Frankfurt, deceased artist, understands the note so that it had distributed the sheet, although the word permit is also the possibility that someone distributed differently in the leaf and was one of the recipients.

For you are likely to have marked the may, at the time, no relevant difference. Her Ideal was a collaboration, which should bring all the individual shares in the production of things or thoughts to Disappear. She has expressed in the Medium of the Manifesto, the programmatic pamphlet, but these comments aim to as well as your Work out of steel, sheet metal or cardboard with a Utmost of objectivity, a shortage of and clarity. The vulgar vocabulary of the Kasseler handout does not match to Charlotte Poseneske. But you would have to put it differently, can remain out of consideration, because they are forms of expression not at all was interested. It is established that they acted in a way, as it demanded the flyer of his readers. "I want you to know that you're superfluous! Just as superfluous as the art that you make, sold, consumed, criticized!“

sociology of the time regiment

Charlotte Poseneske was 1968, and the production of art, after she had just exhibited in Düsseldorf with Konrad Fischer, together with Hanne Darboven. She left the art world, and broke almost all of the personal contacts in this world, in order to study sociology. As a justification you were not, that "art could, in order to solve social problems urgent help". Your together with Brunn wrote a thesis for a critique of the factory organization of work, through the measurement of time was released in 1979 at the Campus as a book.

The artificial Paradise, the Christ in 1968 Packed, it was hot air, he is in a 85-Meter-long plastic skin pumped. Charlotte Poseneske not visited the fourth Documenta as an exhibiting artist. After founded in 1991, the Museum for Modern art in Frankfurt, had consistently tried to you, was the twelfth Documenta in 2007, posthumous world fame.

The leaflet of 1968, was operating in the art-as-corrupt the overall system addressed: The artist as producer not play a prominent role in addition to art dealers, art critics and art buyers. This interchangeability of the functions illustrated in the accusation of Superfluity, had made Charlotte Poseneske, the principle of one's own work, as long as they produced art. The viewer or user of their Work, calling them "consumers". They conceived of their works as a series and set least, not single works, but only individual parts that must be assembled by the owners. The curators of the exhibition in the art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, selected the brown square tubes series DW once a forest of chimney dummies and then again a dragon together, as it could be for a constructivist setting up of Wagner's "Siegfried," use it.

Enclosed in a cube-shaped Urhütte

After a short study with Willi Baumeister at the Stuttgart Academy Charlotte Mayer, daughter of a pharmacist from Wiesbaden worked, under the artist name Carola Mayer as a stage designer in Lübeck, Germany, and Darmstadt. The performance of Christopher fry's Comedy "A Phoenix too much" at the the Hessen state theatre, George Hensel, the later long-standing theater editor of this newspaper, in 1955, wrote: "The stage image of Carola Mayer is well-built."