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gerhard rühm
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1930, author, composer, visual artist Gerhard Rühm is one of the key figures
in the postwar European (neo)avant-garde. He studied music in the 1950s and ’60s and was a founding member
of the legendary Wiener Gruppe. His work is characterized by the intersections of music and language as well
as text and image and thus encompasses poetry, prose, radio plays, drama scenarios, music compositions,
visual compositions, collages, and graphic art. His work with text reflects the techniques of concrete poetry
and Dadaism, while Surrealism and Dark Romanticism were an influence during the Wiener Gruppe period. In his later
work, among other things, he cleverly incorporates pornographic motifs, takes shots at Christianity, and often
invokes the aesthetics of ugliness, vulgarity, or banality. Rühm currently divides his time between Cologne and Vienna.
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cake & prostheses
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