in 2018, assemblage of vintage pictures and polaroids from the 1950s and 1960s, including original press photographs of the landing on the moon and an Andy Warhol exhibition, signs showing Marilyn Monroe and advertising for Coca Cola; the pictorial sequence on a monumental wooden arrow ends with a picture from the Vietnam War of an injured man being placed on a stretcher, height approx. 175 cm, width approx. 130 cm, depth approx. 20 cm. (MHA)

The object artist Udo Breitenbach from Aschaffenburg works with unusual found objects, which he places into a new context. They are eloquent objects from which he extracts or into which he reads all kinds of stories and histories. What results are Dadaesque collages, assemblages, and ready-mades. The Dadaists of the past countered the madness of the First World War with absurdity – ANTI-ART as a desperate creative act! Udo Breitenbach sees himself as a post-Dadaist harking back to the language of Dadaism yet addressing contemporary themes. This object too deals with the pandemic and its impact in a post-Dadaist fashion. In the face of the ruptures and abysses of the present, Breitenbach comments upon such themes as the coronavirus pandemic, populism, Europe, or global politics. His works have often been given ironic or sarcastic titles.