Action Fetish Car
The car is a protective covering and at the same time a material of assault. It is the means of escaping the world as well as it being an instrument to conquer it. Peter Sloterdijk, 1992
We are all cars. Wir sind alle Autos. HA Schult, 1988
Street, 2012
Tripoli, Libya
Deconstruction, Kölner Ladenstadt Department Store, Cologne, 1968
Aktion 20.000 km Feldherrnhalle, Munich, 1970
Aktion 20.000 km
Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1970
Aktion 20.000 km
Kunstverein Munich, 1970
The entire art movement of the sixties, which was combined under
the expression Pop Art, was nothing more than the large-scale attempt
to bring art back into a very close relationship with life. Consider the
famous sculptures by the American Claes Oldenbourg, who modelled
a store, a sculpture.
An action like the one by HA Schult follows here the same line, the
attempt to fuse art and life again into one unit, which of course still
gives the individual the liberty to accept this as art or not. But those
who don't accept it as art should recognize the serious attempt behind
such an action. The attempt to include the world around us, the technique,
the ear, in our artistic expressions. The task of art has always been to make
obvious what people of a certain time think, feel or care about.
Consider art during the Middle Ages. It creates the world of the
Belief. It tries to make the world of the Belief graphically obvious.
A man like HA Schult, if you accept this comparison, tries to make
our world obvious. The world of the car, the world of the travel,
and the permanent immobility of man which has never existed
in this way before. HA Schult's approach to art, in my opinion,
is not only legitimate, it is right and worthwhile.
Peter Ludwig, 1970
HA Schult, Andy Warhol, Pavlos
Neue Galerie – Ludwig Collection
Aachen, Germany, 1970
Die Stadtstraße Cologne, 1971
Car Rodeo Roman Amphitheatre, Xanten, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980
Tribute to Gregory Battcock Charlotte Moorman, cello, New York, N.Y., 1981
Tribute to Gregory Battcock Nam June Paik, HA Schult, New York, N. Y., 1981
The Pope’s Car Fire House, Riverside New York, N. Y., 1983
The Pope’s Car Father Peter Jacobs, New York, N. Y., 1983
Father Peter Jacobs
Julian Schnabel, 1997
Collection Jon Kilik
The Pope’s Car
National Studios, New York, N. Y., 1983
The Limousines
Brooklyn, New York, N. Y. 1983
Time Leap
Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, 1989 Collection Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Silent Time, Cathedral Square, Cologne, 1989 Collection Schweisfurth Foundation, Munich
Silent Time Studio, Cologne, 1989
The Wave
Rhine River, Cologne, 1989
Wissower Klinken, Rügen, 1992
The Cloud Cologne Cathedral, 1989
Frozen Time Cathedral Square, Cologne, 1989
Frozen Time Car Culture, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2011
Golden Bird Riverside Cologne, 1989
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, since 1991
Car Cathedral
HA Schult, Ford Company, 2007
The Capital’s Enemy Marble Palace, Saint Petersburg
Marble TimeMarble Palace, Saint Petersburg, 1994
Der StauRhine Promenade, Düsseldorf, 1996
Der Stau
Rhine Promenade, Düsseldorf, 1996
Der Stau
Rhine Promenade, Düsseldorf, 1996
Car Globe
Car Edition, 1996
HA Schult, Ford Company
Car Globe
Car Edition, 1996
HA Schult, Ford Company
Car Globe
Car Edition, 1996
HA Schult, Ford Company
Car Globe
Car Edition, 1996
HA Schult, Ford Company
Car Crash Riverside Cologne, 2008
Crying Cars, Anna Zlotovskaya, violinÖkoGlobe, Cologne, 2009