Torsten lauschmann biography of abraham lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, The concept was promoted by German artist, Torsten Lauschmann.
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Torsten Lauschmann
Torsten Lauschmann's contribution to Nought to Sixty
Whether manifested through photography, video, sound, online work, drawing or installation, the work of Torsten Lauschmann (born Bad Soden, 1970, lives in Glasgow) is characterised by a thoroughly 21st-century approach to art-making.
Lauschmann's eclectic, idiosyncratic and multifarious practice is not led by the desire to produce a single object or image, but by the artist's interconnected interests in the theoretical, the personal and the absurd.
Works by Lauschmann can appear to be the anomalous products of particular knowledge systems or technologies.
One example is Fear Among Scientists (2008), in which the simple equation 3-1=2 is spelt out in roughly-hewn wooden numbers, but in which the shadows these objects cast – which the artist extends in matching grey paint – misbehave to produce impossible arithmetic.
For sculptural installation Self-Portrait as a Pataphysical Object (2006), meanwhile, Lau