K.H. Hödicke
Schwarzer Humor

1971

EB20

Heart made of tar paper, covered with tar, on wood wool in drawer
5,6 x 40 x 33,5 cm

Edition of 30, signed

available with the edition "En Bloc"

part of portfolio En Bloc more editions by K.H. Hödicke

Multiple by KH Hödicke. In a gray plastic drawer lies wood wool and on top of it tar paper in the shape of a heart, which has also been doused with tar

Schwarzer Humor is K.H. Hödicke’s contribution to the roll-cabinet edition En Bloc (EB20). It consists of a piece of tar paper, shaped like a heart and sized to fit the cabinet drawer, coated with additional tar and placed on a cushion of wood wool filling the entire drawer. The edition is a variation on his earlier work_ Aktionsobjekt (Stelzen und Teerherz)_ (1969) – a 122 cm wide tar paper heart that could be carried in front of the body like a protective shield. Between 1969 and 1972, Hödicke repeatedly worked with tar; his installation Kalter Fluss (1969) remains among his best-known works from this period.
Text: Katrin Seemann

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