VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: STUDIO WORK: CARTOGRAPHIC SUPREMATISM

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STUDIO WORK: CARTOGRAPHIC SUPREMATISM

New photographic studio works derived from Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Suprematism with Eight Red Rectangles, 1915 and an early 20th century map of Kiev:

david K.

Experimental Cartography: Suprematist Rectangles

Photographic laser print on paper

10 x 8 inches

2014

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.