Analogously to Arnulf Rainer′s ‘overpaintings’,and extendin… - Günter Brus

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Analogously to Arnulf Rainer′s ‘overpaintings’,and extending these with my own actionistic resources, the artist′s head should be in the picture ,should become one with the picture, and disappear in it.

Günter Brus

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Günter Brus (27 September 1938 – 10 February 2024) was an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer. He was the main figure of Viennese Actionism alongside with Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. From 1964 to 1970, he was doing actions, from 1970 focuses mainly on Bild-dichtungen and drawings.

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In simple terms: art has not been a public nuisance for quite a while now. either the people have become well-behaved or the perpetrators of nuisances have become tired.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

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