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Martin Kippenberger. _Content on Tour (Inhalt auf Reisen)._ 1992. Screenprint mounted on plywood, with unique alterations by the artist, 70 7/8 x 59" (180 x 150 cm). Publisher and printer: Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria. Edition: 3 this size; 5 for three smaller sizes. Collection Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photograph: Lothar Schnepf, Cologne

Martin Kippenberger. Content on Tour (Inhalt auf Reisen). 1992.

4 screenprints. Various sizes, one each at: 71 x 60" (180.3 x 152.4 cm), 47 x 39" (119.4 x 99.1 cm), 35 x 28" (88.9 x 71.1 cm), and 34 x 20" (86.4 x 50.8 cm). Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

GLENN LOWRY: Content On Tour marked the final step in a long process that began when Martin Kippenberger asked his assistant to make a series of paintings copying his own.

Curator, Christophe Cherix.

CHIRSTOPHE CHERIX: When the paintings were realized, Kippenberger said that they were too good. So he decided to destroy them. But before doing that, he took a number of photographs of those works the photographs were blown up to the size of the painting, framed and shown as works by Kippenberger.

GLENN LOWRY: When Kippenberger destroyed the paintings, he did not simply throw them away.

CHIRSTOPHE CHERIX: He decided to turn the paintings that he destroyed, into a sculpture by trashing them into something which looked like a dumpster. And what he did as a final step was to take a photograph of a detail of the content of the dumpster. So what you see are paintings torn apart, trashed, half destroyed. And that photograph was used to make the screenprints that you are looking at.

So the work is really the final result of the process in which the artist constantly recycle his own work. The information is transferred from one medium to another from painting to sculpture to printmaking.