Scotch art
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
gil j wolman / Lecointre, Didier ; Drouet, Dominique., 2011
Item
Identifier: CC-53430-100098
Gil Wolman / Heart Fine Art., 2005
Item
Identifier: CC-44097-46219
I am Immortal and Alive / Wolman, Gil ; Acquaviva F ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Dufrene F ; Debord G ; Brau JL ; Cabanas K., 2010
Item
Identifier: CC-52922-74062
Scope and Contents
Wolman invented "Scotch Art" and the Sackner Archive has one such example. It consisted of sticking Scotch tape onto printed matter such as posters, magazine pages, newspapers and pamphlets, and, placing them in water so that the cellulose support of the paper dissolved, leaving the image on the surface of the tape. This was then first repostioned on thin pieces of wood and later on a cavas support on a stretcher. The Sackners met Wolman in his apartment in Paris in 1982. Adrian Dannatt who wrote his obituary for the London newspaper, The Independent, characterizes his life well. Gil Joseph (Gil J. Wolman), film-maker, writer, political activist - born Paris 7 September 1929; died Paris 3 July 1995 "Those who live by obscurity die by it also, so the minimal response to the disappearance of Gil J. Wolman is hardly surprising. Wolman led a brave, ferociously independent existence at war with the forces of contemporary conformity, the celebrity machine of the mass media being high...
Dates:
2010