Hotel Art Tour In addition to the paintings (and there are great examples to see in the breakfast room, illustrating Vostell's affinity for the female body and for eroticism as an antagonist of death -- an allusion to Picasso's Tauromaquia), Vostell also developed the art form Dé-collage. The term has connotations of the take-off of a plane, the ungluing of things stuck together, and death, and it describes Vostell's technique of tearing apart posters stuck next to or on top of one another to the point where contradictory motifs and fragments come to light.
The absurdity of life crystallises in the image through the juxtaposition of serious and superficial subjects. You will find Dé-collages throughout the hotel, and every floor is also equipped with a recessed display case showing a material picture related to Berlin, an impressive pictorial illustration of destructive power in the form of jet planes or hand grenades floating over the city's famous landmarks.
Often in collaboration with musicians, Vostell planned, choreographed and documented his happenings in collage-like handwritten texts and drawings, signed with his unique signature, a stroke from the right to the left. The score for the concert Le Cri -- the largest musical sculpture to date at the Gallerie Lavignes in Paris in 1990 -- can be found on the second and seventh floor of the hotel. Between them, you can see Vorstell's thematic areas in ever new variations: the Brandenburg Gates, cars, female bodies, and The Turtle, a rusty locomotive turned on its back -- a symbol of the outmoded technology of war. The latter is Vostell's largest sculpture of the year 1993, now located in Marl, Germany.
Vostell died in 1998, leaving behind a still very contemporary oeuvre that, through its relevance, never ceases to stir up old memories.
Following your tour of this striking building, so rich in new impressions, we invite you to relax. Here, you can enjoy the company of Vostell's small, smoothly burnished sculptures, reminiscent of antique sculptures like the discus thrower or a graceful female torso and yet modernised in Vostell's manner with TV monitors. The design of the hotel by the architects at Nalbach Nalbach has been carefully coordinated with the art. With its flowing wave forms appearing again and again -- overtly in the so-called Hockney carpet in the breakfast room and more subtly in the smaller details -- the hotel is a grand homage to Wolf Vostell, ensuring your stay here will be an unforgettable experience.
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