reduzierte zeitung (neue tageszeitung)

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Gerhard Rühm

reduzierte zeitung (neue tageszeitung), 1962

Over-paintings 6 title pages of the daily "Österreichische Neue Tageszeitung" (Tuesday 7 August to Sunday 12, August 1962), painted over with India ink 46.5 x 31 cm each, framed 70 x 50 cm each

GF0002092.00.0-1999

Artwork text

In his reduced newspaper of the same year, Rühm painted over the title pages of newspapers on six consecutive days, preserving only the word “und” (and). By reducing the daily paper to this additive conjunction, or rather by emphasizing it in this way, Rühm makes a striking statement about the inflationary excesses of information in a daily newspaper. (Sabine Breitwieser/Nadja Wiesener)

Lending history
2005 Munich, DE, Haus der Kunst 2005 Rotterdam, NL, Nederlands fotomuseum 2005 Zagreb, CRO, Galerija Klovicevi Dvori