VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: WE ARE TIME: MENSCHEN DER ZEIT

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WE ARE TIME: MENSCHEN DER ZEIT

Series of 37 serigraphs experimenting with occupation symbolism employed in Slovenia during WWII, culled from overprinted postage stamps recirculated in Yugoslav territories:

The eagle motif used during the Italio-German occupation of Ljubljana / Laibach has been

re-appropriated and printed on pages from the 1931 book Menschen Der Zeit, featuring photogravure portraits of German literary and artistic notables, including

oft - NSK quoted artist Georg Kolbe.

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Georg Kolbe from variable series Menschen der Zeit

Silkscreen on found book page

10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

2013

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.