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Martin Kippenberger — "Kippenberger made hundreds of drawings on hotel stationery, a body of work that comes across as a kind of travel diary. Although he often lived in hotels for weeks or even months, he didn’t stay at all the hotels whose notepaper he used, often picking it up from other sources. The stationery became, like so many things he encountered, a readymade material for his art." (Text from the exhibition

"Kippenberger made hundreds of drawings on hotel stationery, a body of work that comes across as a kind of travel diary. Although he often lived in hotels for weeks or even months, he didn’t stay at all the hotels whose notepaper he used, often picking it up from other sources. The stationery became, like so many things he encountered, a readymade material for his art." (Text from the exhibition

A drawing rendered in colored pencil on hotel stationery, part of Kippenberger's expansive series that functions as a visual travel diary. The artist collected stationery from various hotels, not necessarily ones he stayed in, transforming the found paper into a readymade artistic medium. The work reflects his characteristic approach of incorporating everyday materials into his practice.