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.

david K

Georg Kolbe from variable series Menschen der Zeit

Silkscreen on found book page

10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

2013

NSK FOLK ART: MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Study after Innenraum by Anselm Kiefer

inspired by University of London Senate House Crush Hall

designed by Charles Holden

david K

Innenraum: Senatshaus (after Anselm Kiefer)

Three color silkscreen on black 300gsm cotton rag paper

14 x 11 inches

2013

GRADITELJI, LEAD HORIZON

Still life study of Silicijev Horizont, 1988

after NSK division Graditelji (The Builders)

david K

Study after Graditelji: Svinec Horizont
Lead type and light rail plan
Dimensions variable
2012

NSK at CWOS

dAVID K. will be presenting a site-specific installation of NSK derivative art for New Haven Citywide Open Studios.

 

 

The exhibition will take place for two days at the 'Alternative Space', formerly the Gant shirt factory and the decommissioned New Haven Register printing plant, and the installation will be configured in a restricted zone at the end of the large presses.

 

 

 

 

 

Intermittently during the exhibition, the installation space will become a tableau vivant depicting the Nova Akropola.

 

Due to heightened security, admittance into the area will be denied to non - NSK passport holders; transit documents will not be issued for the duration of the exhibition.

Visitors may observe from outside the temporary autonomous zone.

 

The installation will feature contributions from Charles Lewis and Christian Matzke,

to whom the artist expresses his gratitude.

 

20-21 October 2012

 

12:00 to 5:00pm

 

Citywide Open Studios

Alternative Space: New Haven Register Building

40 Sargent Drive, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

 

http://artspacenh.org/





FOUND NSK FOLK ART

In the spirit of the NSK RETROGARDE LONDON events currently under

way, this post is a response to the IRWIN work

Time for a New State, 2012

being erected at Elephant & Castle:

Found digital object: insurance advert

Dimensions variable

2012

I SEND YOU THIS #E30022

Hexadecimal re:interpretation of the correspondence between

artists John Berger and John Christie with constructivist

retrogarde flair:

david K

I Send You This #E30022

(after John Berger and John Christie's 'I Send You This Cadmium Red' 2000, and

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky's 'Suprematic Tale about Two Squares' 1920.)

10 x 8 inches

2007



PROSPECTUS: RED DISTRICTS / REDISTRICTS

A continuing and recurring theme prevalent among NSK groups Laibach Kunst and IRWIN is that of

the RED DISTRICTS (Rdeči revirji). 

Red Districts: 
Size: 350 cm X 420 cm X 40 cm.
Technique / materials: blood, coal, wood, aluminium, gold, iron, glass, marble.
Year: 1987 
Collaborators: Janez Knez, Tugo Sušnik




The Laibach site cryptically describes the motiv:

"Upon its founding in 1980 Laibach prepared in Trbovlje its first multimedia project "Red Districts (Rdeči revirji)", designed to challenge the striking contradictions of the political structure of the town at that time. The project was banned before it opened, which prevented the first  public appearance of the group, though not the angry media response which followed. "

"The so-called Red District is an industrial area in Laibach’s hometown of Trbovlje and the surroundings. The motifs represent the factories and important architectural and cultural sites of the area. Laibach exhibited these series at their very early Laibach Kunst exhibitions in the 1980s. Reprints were made in 2010.'


Those reprints are available for purchase HERE




An initiative of the NSK Citizenry of the New York / New England is to create an aesthetic
that furthers the NSK visual culture beyond the canon of motifs prevalent in Laibach Kunst.  
In the weeks leading up to the NSK Passport Office New York event held at
the MoMA, NSK Volkskunstler dAVID K. began a series of works that both reflect the
standard of Retrogarde emblematic of NSK/LAIBACH/IRWIN works, but also studied the history
of the built environment in America and its industrial roots which, like in Trbovlje, has deep roots
in mining labor.  The resulting geo-social organization lends itself directly to the mapping and 'districting'
of people contingent on race, religion, economic status and political beliefs for political ends, often
resulting in Gerrymandering, or 're-districting' of areas for electoral advantage.

FROM RED DISTRICTS to REDISTRICTS

Prospectus: Redistricts (after Rdeči revirji)

dAVID K.

Silkscreen and Xerox on heavy white paper

17 x 11 inches

2012

The prospectus of this new line of work features preeminent works from early American

artists, distilled for their socio-political content, and read through the filter of Retrogardism.

STUDIO WORK: VNV NATION LIVE

Unauthorized VNV Nation poster with co:option of 1930s machine-age

stylings of Margaret Bourke-White, as seen on the cover of LIFE Magazine's

first issue in 1936.

david K.

VNV NATION: Live (is) Life

Four-color silkscreen on corrugated cardboard

Edition size: 20 plus proofs,

Signed and numbered

2012

VNV NATION LIVE

TOAD'S PLACE, NEW HAVEN

MARCH 11, 2012

DESIGN FOR NSK PASSPORT OFFICE, MoMA NY

Recent design work for the NSK State:

IRWIN–NSK Passport Office, New York

Print Studio, in Conjunction with the Exhibition Print/Out
Museum of Modern Art
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Lobby
... 4 West 54th Street Entrance,
New York, NY 10019

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM

NSK State Citizens' Rendezvous MoMA & Print Studio Inauguration

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, 6:00-9:00 PM

david K will be collaborating with the Retrogarde Reading Room to display various Volk Art artifacts, Laibach/NSK ephemera and published material at the event.

STUDIO WORK: OCCUPIED STATES OF WALL STREET

Second edition of Wall Street Occupational hazard prints.  This series utilizes the Laibach song title, "Wirtschaft ist Tot" (The Economy is Dead), along with the previous NSK motiv:

Occupied States: Wirtschaft ist Tot

david K after IRWIN / Laibach Kunst

Silkscreen on found object (atlas page)

edition: 30 (variable)

15 x 11 inches

2011