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Johannes Wohnseifer
The And, 2023/2024
Acrylic and screen print on cardboard
42 x 59.4 cm
55 unique pieces
Johannes Wohnseifer works in a variety of media, and his work includes paintings, sculptures, videos, photos, installations, artist books, posters and editions. These numerous artistic forms are accompanied by similarly diverse content-related references. Wohnseifer’s works revolve around pop culture, the world of goods, corporate branding, the fetishization of consumption, history or politics. There is always a profound interest in contemporary visual culture. Typefaces have been one of Wohnseifer’s central groups of works for many years. The artist mostly uses the late modern, matter-of-fact typeface ‘Helvetica’ in paintings and graphics. Wohnseifer’s typefaces, like many of his other works, have two sides – industrial-looking sobriety meets a ‘warm’ or ‘human’ artistic style. Our edition shows the English-language list of eleven professions on a white cardboard in A2 landscape format. The professions from the fields of art, media, politics, science, religion and sport are very diverse. However, they all belong to the professions that are associated with commitment, a love of experimentation and a willingness to perform, as well as reputation and success. However, power and its abuse can also be associated with them. Another possible commonality among them would be the (potential) notoriety of those named, their (possible) ‘fame’. Johannes Wohnseifer has reworked the individual sheets in different colors so that two professions remain untouched as recesses, the other nine are painted over but still remain legible. 55 pairs are thus created from the pool of eleven activities. This reflection on the similarities, the differences, or the potential for an exchange between these 55 pairs is the invitation that Johannes Wohnseifer extends with our edition.
