Plexiglass, spray paint, drilling template in cardboard box
ca. 80 x 100 x 3 cm
Edition: 7 + 3 AP
signed, dated, numbered
Johannes Wohnseifer has provided the Kölnischer Kunstverein with a written work made of Plexiglas. But no company logo or name such as Siemens, Kodak or Braun is reproduced here, as is characteristic of Wohnseifer. Instead, the letters MESS YO ON appear in a night blue. The buyer of the work can supplement this with a color spray can so that the sentence MESSAGES ON YOUR PHONE can be read. This expression, with which the answering machine at home greets the homecoming, does not only hold a silent promise. The graffiti writing in capital letters, which we see in public space since the 1970s, gives the sentence a subliminal threatening quality.
