Wolf Vostell
Starfighter

1967

EB25

Screen print with glitter
53 x 81.5 cm

Edition of 80 in cassette (1/80 - 80/80) + various h.c. copies, signed and numbered

out of stock

part of portfolio Grafik des kapitalistischen Realismus more editions by Wolf Vostell
Screen print by Wolf Vostell shows the German Starfighter Squadron in gray and black in a line grid. The fighter planes stand next to each other in a row. A band of silver glitter is applied to each aircraft

    The template for the screen print Starfighter is a photograph of a German starfighter squadron, which Vostell reproduced in a line grid as a contribution to the portfolio Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus (EB25). In the graphic, Vostell contrasts the threatening presence of the jet fighters with the applied glitter, which covers each Starfighter in a narrow band, thus creating a contradictory symbol of the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany under Adenauer in the 1960s.
    Starfighter was printed in an edition of 80 copies and an unverifiable number of h.c. copies by Birkle + Thomer + Co, Berlin and is signed and numbered. Advertising posters on paper were produced from the same screen for the graphic portfolio originally published by Stolpe Verlag. Information about the portfolio such as title, participating artists and publisher are listed at the bottom of the poster.
    Text: Katrin Seemann