PAPERWORX


Since 2003 I have been designing public spaces with posters. The series HELDENREISE and GIPFELTREFFEN were created. With the help of poster art, I create intellectual sculptures that condense in public space and describe a social sculpture in the spirit of Joseph Beuys.

In doing so, I discovered an enthusiasm for the countless layers of illegal advertising posters on the street. The rinds created by constant pasting and changing weather conditions become three-dimensional reliefs on the walls of the housings and serve layer by layer as the canvas of my PAPERWORX.

Then I form the last level myself with fragments of other advertising posters whose motifs or slogans are freed from the products, services and brands, supplement some of my own posters, political motifs, stickers or found objects and overlay the whole thing with paint and color.

The result are three-dimensional objects that use collage and decollage, demolition and tear-out to create an over-image and invite the viewer to discourse.

Advertising strategies are critically questioned and neutralized. The plasticity of the posters is emphasized in its complexity, upgraded and processed sustainably. A symbiosis of contradictions between consumption and culture arises between abstraction and pop art.

Unlike the advertising poster, my poster art is aimed at all citizens. The aim of my posters is not the need for more consumption and the appeal of selfishness, but rather guidance on social responsibility, love, respect and compassion.


OLIVER O. REDNITZ

PAPERWORKS

By pasting posters, I create intellectual sculptures that condense in public space and describe a social sculpture in the spirit of Joseph Beuys.

The increasingly privatized public space is regenerated by the posters and the viewer helps, shape and reinterpret it through his perception, language, thinking and acting. It‘s about foci of social life, places where people come into conversation. There the posters encourage discussion.

Based on the five world religions and the divine love, 24 posters of the series HELDENREISE describe the way to love yourself and your neighbor: I am what I am. You are me, I am you and we are all one.

When we internalize this fact, money and property, species, class, nationality and religion no longer matter. The power of love overcomes the love for power. 

Unlike the advertising poster, my poster art is aimed at all citizens. The aim of my posters is not the need for more consumption and the attraction of selfishness, but rather guidance on social responsibility, love, respect and compassion.

Love is the knowledge of being one, knowing oneself in others. Everything is connected. Nothing stands for itself. Everything gets its existence through the other.

We are in a time marked by political and social unrest, new fears, exclusions, tensions and old hatred of the foreign and others. At a time when the dark side of our system is coming to light, I want to use posters to discuss the topics of love, compassion and oneness.

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Oliver O. Rednitz