Photos sind unglaubwuerdig. Gips durchflossen und unlesbar geworden. The consciouness mediating character of a potato is no different from that of the internet by a millimeter, gram or second, says the media sculptor Wolf Kahlen today, like a similar statementon video he made in the 60s, when he worked on his video pieces and did impressive media immanent pieces. More may be seen together with his video sculptures and installations in a later part, which all present phenomena or topic oriented selected corner stones out of his ouvre. Only the outer parts of these Russian doll like photos of photos of photos look real, frame by frame inside the frame becomes more and more abstract, wood cut like, unbelieveable.
Photos are unreliable.
Mine too, Wolf Kahlen said 1978 in his catalogue of the Freiburger Kunstverein show almost as a manifesto. Of course he did not only mean the lean argument of todays fakeability of any document. A mass of one cubic meter Russian books is stacked up as a cube and on top covered with dust he works with for more than thirty years as one of his ephemeral materials. Out of the dust drains the meditative sound of turning pages, as if one reads. The books were rescued from burning, when an East-Berlin public library wanted to get rid of all Russian influence in 1989.