Martin KippenbergerRevolution in Cologne 1986

With this poster, German artists Martin Kippenberger and Walter Dahn (born 1954) announced their plans for a revolution in Cologne that would take place in the city’s Café Broadway at 11 pm on Friday 25 April 1986. While appearing to embrace claims made by the late Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) that art was capable of bringing about revolutionary social change, the poster’s design actually serves to undermine the older German artist’s ideas. The fractured, disorientating text is almost illegible, while the central image is taken from a Brazilian advertisement publicising incense, icons, and other items for religious worship… (read more)