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.