Micosch Holland 'USEP/Syndicate/Luftnummer' Print Available
Artist: Micosch Holland
Title: USEP/Syndicate/Luftnummer
Medium: 12 Different Wood Inlays
Size: 24 x 32 Inches
Edition: OPEN
Price: $167
German artist Micosch Holland, born 1968 in Mönchengladbach, resurrects the anarchic spirit of Dada through razor sharp mixed media collage. After studying at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht, he settled in Schondorf am Ammersee, where vintage paper, found typography, and digital fragments are sliced, layered, and re-welded into compositions that channel Schwitters, Hoch, and Rauschenberg while critiquing twenty first century excess.
Works such as Bank (Zürich) juxtapose sprinting soldiers with corporate logos, exposing the lethal romance of money and war; other pieces remix Bauhaus geometry with surrealist body parts, yielding gritty new myths for an age of information overload. Recognition arrived via the 2014 Kids of Dada Art Prize, inclusion in the Bavarian State Art Collection, and exhibitions from Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog to London’s Hoxton Gallery. Holland insists every scrap retains its history: a 1930s bond certificate, a torn East German stamp, or a fragment of his own award winning graphic design work can become the pivot that tilts a piece from aesthetic play to political provocation. Whether wheat-pasted in alleyways or framed in white cubes, his restless montages insist that collage remains the perfect mirror for fractured times, endlessly reassembling yesterday’s debris into tomorrow’s cautionary visions.
