Thomas Kilpper

Thomas Kilpper is one the atrists I have been given to research :) 

Thomas Kilpper has, throughout his career, engaged history and the public sphere with artistic interventions that reveal hidden or obscured political and social significances. He works with local neighborhoods and people’s stories, using his research to create a picture of a history more complicated than official lines. He conceives his works as installation or performance to develop the large-scale visibility that provokes public dialogue. With many of his print projects, his carving in situ is a model of literal resistance; Kilpper works with teams of assistants, using heavy tools to coax images from wood and then making very large prints that achieve this public scale. His work expands political dialogue, not only to include previously excluded voices at a local level but also to integrate these stories into an international history of resistance and work for justice.

Kilpper first came to international prominence through his project The Ring a woodcut carved from the parquet flooring of Orbit House in South London which took Printmaking onto a new level of monumentality. He has subsequently developed a direct use of Printmaking to continue his engagement with political and social issues as dramatically evidenced in State of Control 2009 when he used the linoleum floor of the offices of the former GDR Ministry for State Security in formerly East Berlin to produce a vast lino print covering 1000sq meters, taking as its subject the history of surveillance.