For Sale
1977
© Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
- Title
- For Sale
- Year
- 1977
- Category
- Sculpture
- Format
- Cast
- Material / Technique
- aluminium
- Dimensions / Duration
- each 10,5 x 12,5 x 19 cm
- Collection
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Description
- Almost all products manufactured worldwide are not only intended for use, but first of all to be sold as profitably as possible. They are goods whose salability can be increased by their external design. This is true not only for consumer goods, but also, for example, in an extreme way for gold bars. They are perfectly storable due to their always identical cubic shape and have neither a use nor a consumption function. The incentive to buy as a commodity arises exclusively from their material value. In the object "For Sale", the 'ideal commodity' is created by combining the first consumer incentive that we all have, mother's breast, with the stackability of the bar form, whereby the influencing ability of design becomes recognisable.
Author
Helga und Hans-Jürgen
Images
© Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
© Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
© Hans-Jürgen Lannoch, Helga Lannoch ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Franz J. Wamhof
