DEGENERATE ART
An exhibition at Karlin Studios in Prague 2010
The idea of the Degenerate Art exhibition came from the numerous negative critiques that people write on our website as a response to our works. While reading the critiques the impression arouse that our work is perceived as ‘degenerate’ by many people. We decided to paint a selection of 30 critiques referring to our work in a calligraphic manner using the Schwabacher typography. These ‘critique paintings’ point out the degeneracy of our art. We also created a double (gay) Self-Portrait as Hitler in order to incorporate our degenerate image.
See project and critiques here:
http://brodypaetau.com/recent-works/degenerate-art
Comments
12 years, 3 months ago
I have seen this somewhere around and it caused great laughter (: Its a cool fusion of serious thematics and, how some would say, maybe degenerated, but more contumelious in a good way, since hitler is used in hollywood, kabarett and film a lot these days
Uploaded by:
Kristofer
12 years, 5 months ago
Author(s):Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
Year:
2010
Country:
Czech Republic
Budget:
2500 euro
How does project benefit the client (if there is a client)?
it doesn't
How does project benefit the people you are speaking to with your communication?
not sure it does
How does project benefit the wider society?
not sure it does
How did/does this project benefit author (authors/makers of the project)?
we get kicks out of doing this
Tell us something about your view on communication. What is your / your organisation's / initiative's (visual) communication philosophy?
Our priorities can be counted on One hand:
1. Direct attitude in ambiguous situations
2. Being literal is a conceptual advantage
3. Humor is a weapon
4. Criticality is vital - everything else is an excuse for maintaining the power in place
5. We will fight till the END
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
What about the process of creating this work? Please describe it.
rather disturbing experience
No other projects