Reiner Ruthenbeck
Papier­haufen

1969

EB20

Crumpled black paper
5,6 x 40 x 33,5 cm

Edition of 30

available with the edition "En Bloc"

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Multiple by Reiner Ruthenbeck. A gray plastic drawer is filled with balls of black paper.

    Papierhaufen (Pile of Paper) is Rainer Ruthenbeck’s contribution to the rolling cabinet edition En Bloc (EB20). Based on the large installations of ash heaps created at this time, cone-shaped piles of ash (Aschehaufen 1, 1968), and the pile formed from slightly crumpled black paper (Schwarzer Papierhaufen, 1970), the concept of the edition is to fill the bottom of a drawer of the rolling cabinet with crumpled black paper. “The drawer is filled with crumpled black paper. But it must not be pressed too hard – crumple it up once. The balls must of course be close together. You can do that for me,”1 is Ruthenbeck’s instruction, which he sends to René Block along with a small sketch.
    Text: Katrin Seemann

    1 Letter from Reiner Ruthenbeck to René Block (September 18, 1969), Archive René Block.