Untitled Sonntagsbilder (Sunday Pictures), 1976

For fifty years, Hans-Peter Feldmann has based his work on the collection of visual material taken from newspapers, advertisements, postcards or family albums, with which he assembles personal archives in the form of books and installations. What counts for the artist is never the single photograph but the addition to a series, the chance to construct original meanings through the coupling of different images, out of context and without captions or other comments. His intervention does not lie in the creation of original material but in the selection of something that already exists and that requires nothing more than a new means of presentation. [...]