Since the early 1980s, Margret Eicher has developed the method of CopyCollage in contrast to Copy Art, coming up very diversly around the same time. While Copy Art is strongly related to its process and performative levels of statement, CopyCollage already reflects the public image, its subtexts and finding of an adequate image form. She extracts and abstracts her visual vocabulary from the flood of images of the apparently beautiful produced by the print media on an ever-increasing scale. The selection is based on the subjective criteria of being typical contemporary: visual codes, patterns, norms. The power of images...
The image material, which is usually extracted from trivial contexts, is further trivialized by the copying process. In the collage, this third-hand reality becomes the base material of a new aesthetic: Eicher reactivates the meaning of the ornament, which, located between image and writing, and enables the simultaneous use of signs, hieroglyphs, symbols and pictograms.
The space levelled in the pattern becomes a questioning of itself, whereby Margret Eicher intensifies this philosophical problem trough spatial installations with CopyCollage and simultaneously alines these two different art forms into a new three-dimensional ornament.
Architecture here constitutes a recurring theme; for example the phenomenon of the facade and the apparent nature of architecture. Architectural structures reflect social conditions, as collective art architecture represents the public cause and individual state of being, conveys norms and symbolizes ideals.
Aus: Hans Günter Golinski: Konkretum Abstraktum, Bochum 1996
Images never quite fulfill what I have in mind. In space installations, the viewer can physically experience situations […], in pictures he can „only“ intellectually understand them. My installations should […] work […] through a subtle and direct emotional influence.
The model-like nature of these arrangements […] comes to the ground because I use such an unarchitectural, weak material as paper to illustrate the dominance of architectural structures. In this sense, my paper architectures aim at a structural investigation of what architecture […] effectuates.
Aus: Verführung und Zerstörung, Gespräch mit Stephan Berg, Freiburg 1993
Wo ist Gott?
CopyCollage Wandinstallation
boygroup Rauminstallation
Corporate Identity 1 Rauminstallation
Mr.X Wandinstallation
Ruhe bitte! Rauminstallation
Tussirecherche
Symbol und Wirklichkeit
Corporate Identity 2
Amazing-Amazon-Stars
