Wolf Vostell, Désastres. Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1972

Poster, 58 x 80 cm, offset printed b/w, folded in 8 parts. Announcement for Vostell's 16 mm film ‘Désastres’ (1972), produced for the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein’s video art library (Videothek), which was the first of its kind in the world and co-founded by Vostell.

The film incorporates a variety of visual resources: archive material, documentary photos, Vostell’s own concrete sculptures, mixed with surreal scenarios alluding to the brutality and violence in a post-war divided Germany. Fine copy with regular aging.