Avandgarde – Fluxus – Vostell, Wolf. – Elektronischer dé-coll/age 7 – Happening Raum 1959-1968.

Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. – Wolf Vostell «Electronic Dé-coll/age, Happening Room» – The environment is made up of 6 TV sets equipped with auxiliary electromotors that move objects over the glass-strewn floor. Slides showing earlier happenings and works by Vostell are sometimes projected on the walls. According to Vostell, the room contains ‘Multi multilayer mixed layers, superimpositions and events mobile collages and dé-coll/ages.’ The environment was displayed at the 1968 Venice Biennale. Dokumentation der Realisierung des E d H R Elektronischen dé-coll/age Happening Raums in Nürnberg in der Ausstellung “Von der Collage zur Assemblage” … 1968.- Edges a bit rubbed. – Rare.