Joseph Kosuth
‘L.W.’s Last Word’ [Cobalt blue], Text reads: Sprache, 1991

Cobalt blue Neon.
75 x 245 cm.
Courtesy of Christine König Galerie.

Joseph Kosuth has been deeply influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s writings since his youth. His last handwritten and simultaneously struck through word SPRACHE is Kosuth‘s tribute to the great philosopher. In Kosuth’s artistic practice, a process of multiple transformations always takes place: literature becomes material becomes art becomes philosophical interrogation. A governing principle of Joseph Kosuth is that artists work with ideas and not with form and colour: “With the creation of meaning (which equally implies the extinction or the appropriation of already existing meaning), the artist has the freedom to use everything that is already available in the world”.

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