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ACTION CARRIER is a series of pieces made with tape. Wassermann uses different procedures to manufacture the pieces: He sticks tape over photographs or newspaper pages of print media like e.g. Bild, Spiegel or Krone. In the following, the artist removes the tape and re-applies it on a blank piece of paper where the traces that the tape has been collecting from the media imagery become visible. Some of these text and image compositions are digitally enlarged and printed on handmade paper - this series of prints is called DATA CARRIERS. The curator Hubert Salden writes about the ACTION CARRIERS: "Franz Wassermann detaches information in the form of imagery or text from its context in which it had a specific function. This fragmentation abstracts, deconstructs and subjectivizes the data. (...) In appropriating this material, Wassermann saves himself from manipulation through the media and the resulting feeling of powerlessness when facing the reduction on sex and crime." In addition to ACTION CARRIER, tape as a material is used in various other pieces of Wassermann e.g. in I and EVERYBODY IS ENTITLED TO A BREAK. |
