[3D MASTERSONNET]
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 01 & Assemblage 01
BREAKFAST ULYSSES
(FG*Borgonovo†WÜ/Urlaub LA)
For James & Paul vs. Max & Moritz vs. Alberto & Giovanni vs. Edgar & Oskar vs. Edouard & Marcel
PS: KL & RK & SS & KS & MK
PPS: F & G & K & M & R
UPPS: SB/BB/HH/TM & GB/HM/RMR & D/H/L/O & JWG/FS & JGG/OW
1994/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 02 & Assemblage 02
FROM: MEIN KAMPF
FRANCIS BACON
(DADASOPH)
For Julia & William
2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 03 & Assemblage 03
THE DEATH OF MARAT
For Charlie Chaplin & Renato Guttuso
2011/16
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 04 & Assemblage 04
WOW
STUDIO TOOL BOX
1985/2016
For Ernst Lutz & Erich Mansen & Herwig Schubert
1985/2016
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Index card 05 & Assemblage 05
MELENCOLIA II
Hommage AD
1994/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 06 & Assemblage 06
THE SURREALIST TABLE
1933
Free after AG
2011/16
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 07 & Assemblage 07
THE HANDS OF EROS AND THANATOS
For Aristotle vs. Bataille vs. Kant vs. Nietzsche vs. Plato
1972/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 08 & Assemblage 08
WOR(L)D BUILDING MUSIC (WALK MAN!)
1968
For John Berger & Bazon Brock & Alexander Kluge & Robert Kudielka & Peter Weibel
1989/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 09 & Assemblage 09
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A SINGING SCULPTURE
For G & G & Le Corbusier
1985/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 10 & Assemblage 10
GNOMES ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
For Konrad Gessner & Pablo Ruiz Picasso
1985/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 11 & Assemblage 11
SELF AS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
(3D PUZZLE)
For Jean-Luc Godard & Andrei Tarkovsky & Hannah Höch & Paul Landowski & Franz Pechwitz
1983/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 12 & Assemblage 12
BEYOND-MAN
For Miss Woman
2011/16
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Index card 13 & Assemblage 13
EGO
For All Others
2006/16
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Index card 14 & Assemblage 14
TOOLBOX CAMERA PENCIL
(PS: PW)
For Alexandre Astruc & Alfred Behrens & Jürgen Böttcher & Birgit Hein & Nam June Paik
1983/2016
3D MASTERSONNET
Index card 15 & Assemblage 15
BEYOND-UNIVERSE
TOWARDS A THEORY OF EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING
For Einstein & Hawking & Plank & Neumann, NN and others, follow, follow!
1989/2016
Objet trouvé/Readymade, Assemblage, 15-part puzzle, each maximal 0.60 x 0.60 x 0.60 m, pedestals 01–14, 1.44 x 0.615 x 0.615 m and glass dome 15, 0.50 x 0.50 x 0.50 m with modelling trestle 15, 0.92 x 0.86 x 0.86 cm.
From the moving 2D image, the exhibition develops into space: the 3D-MEISTER-SONETT shows 15 ready-mades in which prop design and found objects are mounted. On their way to the exhibition, visitors pass display cases in which, for example, a Wehrmacht typewriter, an analog camera, an iPhone, and other technical devices are mounted to create bizarre objects. The installative master sonnet takes in the surroundings and infiltrates them with alienation effects. Some of the ready-mades reflect artistic and non-artistic media. Assemblage 15 “ÜBER-ALL: Towards a Theory of Everybody and Everything, For Einstein & Hawking, Plank & Neumann, NN and others, follow, follow!“ summarizes the elements 01-14 in itself. The ready-made shows a cross-section through Runge’s color sphere, through the syntax of the entire color spectrum, in the form of a record on a record player: gramophone, film, typewriter – media technology changes, and with that, what can be heard and seen in the media also changes. The ready-made is an element of a plastic audiovisual media theory.
Text excerpt: Stefan Winter, “The Poetry of Syntax, Frank Geßner’s Reflection on Audiovisual Media“, p. 340, in: FRANK GESSNER, PANORAMAVISION, EARTH SEEN FROM THE STUDIO, 2018