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Michael Kress

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Michael Kress (* 1964 in Munich) is a German neo-concept artist. He lives in Hamburg.

In the tradition of Concept Art, Kress resorts to their well-known systems of order, such as writing, naming, pictorial symbols or grammatical attributes. His motives, however, he gains from popular contexts by developing reproducible variants of an isolated pattern, eg. For example, with a scrolling font of the names of movie stars (La Video) or for scribblines in exercise books (Ruling No.1 - Standard extension, 1991). In the relationship of individual elements to each other results in a structure that develops through repetition norms and promises orientation. Kress draws attention to these structures again and again and finds new combinations through amazingly simple image solutions, the norms vary without giving them up completely, which would be naive. The formation of identity and order, as it is repeated over and over again, for example in the often cramp-inducing practice of writing, he literally turns upside down by writing backwards (left-back-writing, 1990) or the transformation from inscriptions to lines of characters (standard extension) , The pedagogic coercion to the beautiful writing mutates with Kress to the variation of the row pattern, to a beautiful, but meaningless remaining ornament. Rules that freeze to the norm and, detached from the meaningful connection or use of things, develop their own alienating existence are called into question.

Michael Kress is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. [1]

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