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Wrappings


"If you wrap up different kinds of furniture in enough wrapping paper, you can make them all look the same shape."     

Ludwig Wittgenstein.     



     


Leonardo da Vinci

     


René Magritte: Les Amants, 1925


Antoni Tàpies:
Chaise Couverte, 1970

 

 



Man Ray: L'Énigme d'Isidore Ducasse, 1920


Maurice Henry: Hommage à Paganini, 1936



Roland Penrose, 1938. (From: The Road is Wider than Long.
London: London Gallery Editions, 1939.)


Christo Javacheff: Wrapped Cans and Bottles, 1958-1959
          



Erik Dietman: Tableau Malade, 1960



Piero Manzoni: Achromo (Pacco), 1962

   



Man Ray:
Vénus Restaurée, 1936


Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd:
Maskotte, 1960


Michel Journiac, 1970
     

 

 

 





Erik Dietman: Untitled,
1960's



Joseph Beuys: Infiltration Homogen für Konzertflügel,
1968.
        



Christophe Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf:
Delete!
(Neubaugasse, Vienna, 2005)    

 

 

 


 

Erik Dietman: The Sick Saw, 1961

Erik Dietman:
Body Art, 1962

Joseph Beuys: Wenn Du Dich schneidest, verbinde nicht den Finger sondern das Messer. (1962)

   




Otto Mühl: Material-Aktion, 1964


Günter Brus: Ana, 1964


Rudolph Schwarzkogler, 1965

 

 

 



More wrappings by:

      Man Ray   

      René Magritte    

      Christo Javacheff  

      Erik Dietman   


More images of:

      Otto Mühl's 1964 Material-Aktion    

      "Delete!" (Christophe Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf)    


Related genres:

      Cover-up   

      Secrets   



     Sources


The images of pieces by Maurice Henry, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd and Antoni Tàpies were copied from:
Willy Rotzler: Objektkunst. Von Duchamp bis zur Gegenwart. Köln: DuMont Schauberg, 1975.

The Wittgenstein quote was taken from John R. Searle: The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992, p. 126.