Tearing up word, syntax and grammar to create the new visual rhythms<\/strong><\/p>\nManfred Peckl\u2019s studio is a maelstrom of slices of paper. Different colours, words, shapes from magazines and posters, some discarded, some being saved for later use, are piled in boxes, on the floor, on the desk. It\u2019s all part of what the Viennese artist calls \u201cmaking one big thing out of smaller things\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As well as the obvious relation to collage, one of his most-used media, that notion applies equally to his attitude to his whole oeuvre. From the words that he creates his ultra-verbose pictures with also come ideas for songs for his band, The B-Men. It also inspires the composition of his poetry, his word sculptures, as well as books and catalogues. He is an equal-opportunities recycler \u2013 finding use for faces, words, colours and objects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to let the material lead you to the solution,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can see afterwards what the result is.\u201d A viewer of Peckl\u2019s work is typically subjected to several different linguistic messages simultaneously, a reflection of the marketing communications we are bombarded with on a daily basis. For his forthcoming show in Hamburg, the artist will be performing songs and poetry from a new book, wearing his \u201cword sculptures\u201d, as well as gloves and a skirt made of languages. Ambiguous words are made out of large cardboard tubes, creating, for example, a looping\u00a0 handwritten helmet \/ crown made out of \u201canger \/ range\u201d, another from \u201chow \/ who\u201d. Looping a word around itself creates confusion about which word is intended.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to perform with these sculptures, because the text I\u2019m reading is quite poetic, composed and rhythmic,\u201d he notes. \u201cI want to change the meanings of the words\u2026 and then combine that with pictures, which might disagree with what the words are saying.\u201d Often, even the titles and the designations contribute to this uncertainty. He has named one of his abstract collages of brightly coloured letters \u201cTraksbat\u201d, and for a recent exhibition he created nine different anagrammatic\u00a0identities (Fred P. Leckmann, der Lampenfeck, and so on) each of whom was responsible for different pieces in the show. \u201cManfred Peckl himself claims not to have noticed that most of his works are not by him,\u201d the show\u2019s programme enigmatically suggests. As language becomes destabilised, so does the whole conceit of art exhibiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Peckl\u2019s work hasn\u2019t always been so focused on language. For many years he made landscape collages, where he meticulously pieced together torn up maps to create fictional places, where he would create impossible, destabilised geographical narratives. Maps of flat northern Germany\u00a0were turned into mountainous iceberg sculptures, bursting the walls of the room that contained them, while the outlines of the Himalayas were turned into a seascape with only the peaks remaining above the water, green again in this future eco-fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was doing those works for eight years,\u201d Peckl says. \u201cThen I just decided, \u2018That\u2019s enough. I can\u2019t do it any better.\u2019 I became an artist to be bold \u2013 not to just go to the studio to work on one thing, but to have a wide range and to bring things together you\u2019re not used to. This is the bigger adventure at the moment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s evident that Peckl\u2019s obsession with words remains, situated in the world of layering meanings. The shifting significances of language are what inspires him, overlaying different sensory experiences of communication: one big thing out of many little things.<\/p>\n
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Manfred Peckl in his studio. Photo \u00a9 Maxime Ballesteros<\/p>\n