{"id":1786,"date":"2010-07-13T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/07\/auntie_foo_checks_back_in\/"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:18:21","slug":"auntie_foo_checks_back_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/07\/auntie_foo_checks_back_in.html","title":{"rendered":"Auntie Foo Checks Back In … Yum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time<\/a> Auntie Foo checked in, an anonymous comment<\/a> arrived with savvy guesswork about auntie’s identity and some excellent info and illustrations about the art of collage.
\n<\/a>A bit of sleuthing revealed that the anonymous commenter was Walter Hartmann, an old associate of Carl Weissner, Jorg Fauser, and Jurgen Ploog, from their GASOLIN 23<\/a> years.
\nAuntie Foo is, of course, a nomme de collage<\/em>. Hartmann’s guess was, “mebbe i’m wrong BUT it smell a wee bit FLYPAPER<\/a>, doesnt it? norm ogue mustill.”<\/em> My lips are sealed.
\nMeanwhile, Hartmann has followed up with incidental intelligence about collagists on his side of the pond who offer their own eye-poop.<\/p>\n


\nHe writes:<\/p>\n

speaking of current youngster collagio, i really liked some of these Mario Wagner items<\/a> & this guy Wagner a while ago did a 36pp postcard-size brochure for playstation tipped into VICE<\/a> magazine (see his further clients works<\/a>) … oh & i used to be a big fan of Neasden Control Centre<\/a>, & in ’07 i went to hamburg to see their expo in a small youngster gallery there… just loved their early collage work & crude drawings i found in their 1st book in 2003… meanwhile they too did lots of commercials\/advertising (mtv, nike, volkswagen)… seems neasden started out as a 2-boy team in london, but for a while since then the stephen smith guy works with this anna girl & the collage thing stopped. it’s funny how both wagner & neasden only use(d) old b\/w ’60s or ’70s snippets in their work, no? and yes it seems quite a lotta those Youngsters Today show their freie kunst<\/em> stuff in galleries & do commercial work for corporate clients…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hartmann sent along a sample image from the first Neasden book, published in 2003 and now o.p. …
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\n… along with the shots of several 1960 collages by J.G. Ballard’s “old buddy Ed Paolozzi,” taken from Winfried Konnertz’s book on Paolozzi<\/a>, published in Cologne in 1984 by DuMont. The one in the center “is fixing up mr james joyce w\/ grete wiesenthal<\/a>,” Hartmann adds. “in the icy blackness of space…the ghost face of hannah hoech<\/a> SMILES.”
\n<\/a>
\nHartmann continues:<\/p>\n

oh and browsing for snippet gypsies minnits ago i just happen to find … these, using multiple cut-out layers on a pinup centerfold, posted by Mario Zoots at Society 6<\/a>, and some really dressed down minimalistishe approaches posted by Anthony Zinonos, also at Society 6<\/a> … in short, KLEBEKUNST LIVES! no?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The dope on some of Hartmann’s own work comes from another informant, who says that Hartmann and Gregor Pott recently did “an incredible translation job” on Mary Beach<\/a>‘s Die Elektrische Banane<\/a>. Described as a “two-fisted version,” the book publishes the original Gothic Banana<\/em> text in English along with the German translation. What will it take for an American publisher just to bring out the original?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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