Décollage

Décollage (French: Deco ller = Lift, loose, separate, scrape ) denotes an artistic technique of the 1950s and 1960s. It already destroyed by passers posters from the public space to be demolished in strips and shreds and used as the starting material for the production of works of art. Since 1949, the Décollage in France by Raymond Hains, Jacques de la Villeglé and from 1957 by François Dufrêne was used; they belonged in 1960 to the founding members of the New Realism. Since the mid -1950s, the technique of Mimmo Rotella and since the late 1950s by Wolf Vostell was practiced. Furthermore, this technique was used in a modified form of Robert Rauschenberg, the blurred photographs and painted images and text; César and John Chamberlain pressed metal consumer goods of all kinds together.

The Décollage the happenings aims at a " critical consciousness breakdown absurd environmental conditions that afflict the people " to refer, for example, to events in everyday life, such as car traffic. So materials were destroyed and no longer work in the Décollage happenings of the early 1960s in critically provocative disassembly action. Another form of Décollage is the Dé-coll/age by Wolf Vostell, which do not involve the destruction, but about making visible, within the meaning of smudging and other forms, such as wipe, discolor duplicate the, distort, blur and superimposed print, went.